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Manufacturing companies in need of a solution to streamline operations, leverage resources and increase profit margins
About SimWise 4D
Are you looking for an engineering tool that will resolve design problems, reduce failures and warranty costs, turn around designs faster, and work either with your existing Windows-based 3D CAD system or as a standalone application? SimWise 4D is for design and engineering professionals developing products involving assemblies of 3D parts. By simulating your assemblies in this unique virtual environment, you will produce more creative, robust designs and reduce cycle time. With SimWise 4D, you can simulate the rigid body dynamics of an assembly, size components, determine part interferences and collision response, identify stresses induced by motion, produce physics-based animations, and test your control systems. Professional Engineers use our Working Model 2D, Dynamic Designer Motion, and SimWise 4D products to build virtual prototypes of their mechanical designs and use these prototypes to evaluate performance.
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Starting Price:
$2000.00/year/user
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Free Trial available.
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Company Information
Design Simulation Technologies
Founded: 2005
United States
www.design-simulation.com
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