Helsinki, FINLAND, February 19, 2002 – DeskArtes announced today the new version 5.0 for the Expert Series product family, including new Design Expert Student Version and Render Expert products.
The DeskArtes Expert Series software product family offers wide functionality to speed up the design and manufacturing process in new product development at different levels, from start to finish:
¨ Design Expert: Easy-to-use free-form 3D CAD modeling and photorealistic rendering.
¨ 3Data Expert: Analysis and geometric repair of 3D models for Rapid Prototyping originating from arbitrary CAD/CAE/CAM systems.
¨ View Expert: Viewing, measuring and communicating 3D models by anyone involved in product development, marketing and sales.
¨ Render Expert: State-of-the-art photorealistic renderings created of 3D models from arbitrary CAD systems.
¨ Student Version: The Design Expert is now affordably available for design students, too.
DeskArtes Design Expert is a surface modeling system, which provides a full range of functionality for interactive free-form curve and surface design. The product is designed especially for users with no previous background of 3D CAD. While the software is frequently applied for conceptual design by manner of sketching of aesthetically pleasing shapes, it is just as well applicable for accurate detail design of production-ready complex parts. The results can be presented with photorealistic renderings or sent to manufacturing processes using IGES, VDA-FS or STL formats.
The Design Expert software is available with full modeling capabilities as a demo version over the Internet. Without any license, and no time limit involved, the user may within the same computer carry out a complete design from scratch to limited presentation images. When ready for it, customers will pay for a license to produce final presentation images and transfer geometries using different data exchange formats.
3Data Expert is DeskArtes’ solution for manufacturing engineers needing to efficiently create and manipulate faceted STL models for Rapid Prototyping (RP), manufacturing and analysis. The software converts surface data in IGES, VDA-FS and CATIA files to solid STL. The software also detects and automatically repairs various mistakes in the model.
View Expert has been designed for anyone needing to deal with three-dimensional CAD data. Rather than requiring expensive and difficult-to-use CAD systems, individuals in engineering, prototyping, tooling, purchasing, marketing and sales can now view CAD models at the click of a button. Besides viewing and shading, View Expert also enables one to clip into the model, obtain its measures, print and e-mail STL model data, as well as cut and paste model information to other Windows applications.
Render Expert allows the users of different CAD systems to enter the world of photorealistic images. The Render Expert can import geometries from any CAD system through standard IGES, VDA-FS and STL interfaces. Colors, materials and textures can be added to surfaces and lights can be defined to generate natural looking reflections, highlights and shadows.
Design Expert Student Version is an affordable step to 3D CAD for anybody studying industrial design or other field requiring high quality CAD design and visually impressive renderings.
”DeskArtes has always been servicing design and manufacturing industry with high quality design and data preparation products. With the Render Expert DeskArtes has taken a major step towards all CAD users needing photorealistic renderings”, notes Mr. Ismo Mäkelä, CEO of DeskArtes. ”With the Expert Series product line DeskArtes can offer solutions to wide variety of customers, starting from product design going through manufacturing to sales and marketing.”
Contact Information
DeskArtes Oy, Sales / Ms Johanna Manai
Särkiniementie 5 C 13, FIN-00210 Helsinki, Finland
Tel. +358-207-414-510, Fax +358-9-644 330
e-mail DA@deskartes.fi
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