DesignSpace R7.0 New Features

Named Selections

Allows multiple components to be grouped together and managed as one component

Groups

• Parts

• Surface

• Lines

• Vertices

Selection Management

• Construct

• Delete

• Use

• Hide

• Suppress

Groups appear as nodal components in ANSYS

Parameters

Reaction forces can now be specified as output parameters.
Details View for Supports

Clean Database

Provides option to erase mesh and solution data from database.
Reduces file size
Good for archiving result files

System Memory

Using /3GB application memory option in boot.ini for Windows XP allows DesignSpace to access more than the usual maximum 2GB of virtual memory

Supported CAD Systems

• Inventor R5/R6

• Mechanical Desktop v5.0/v6.0

• Solid Edge v10/v11

• SolidWorks 2001/2002

• Pro/Engineer 2001/2002

• Unigraphics v17.0/v18.0/v19.0

• SAT (ACIS) 8.0

• Parasolid 13.0

• CATIA v4.X/v5.X

Via SAT & Parasolid formats

• Vertex G4 v2.0/v3.0 (SAT)

• I-deas Master Series v9.1 (Parasolid)

Meshing

• Improved Mesh Repeatability

• Surface Meshing Robustness

• Uses Tessellation Facets

• Overcomes Brep Anomalies Flaws

Automatic Reduction In Memory Fragmentation

During Meshing And Boundary Condition Operations
Makes Possible Larger Model Solutions
Load Transfer Speed Improved (One Example Reduced From 40 Min to 2 Sec)
Show All Unmeshable Geometry (Control Panel)

Solids & Surfaces Meshed Simultaneously

Worksheet View

Displays spreadsheet list of information for tree objects like geometry, contact, frequency, etc.
Column sorting capability Aids in project conditions and results summaries

Coordinate Systems 

Local Cartesian and Cylindrical coordinate systems can be created.
Can be applied to results objects only in this release
Coordinate systems can be changed in Results Object Definition
Stress results in local coordinate systems
Coordinate system symbols displayed

Spaceball Support

DesignSpace now supports the SpaceBall, SpaceMouse and CadMan products from 3Dconnexion.

Supported Operating Systems

• Windows XP Pro

• Windows XP Home

• Windows 2000 (SP2)

• Windows NT (SP6a)

• SUN UltraSPARC 64-bit Solaris 8 (New!)

• HP PA8000 64-bit HP-UX B.11.0 (New!)