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News Release from: Moldflow Vertriebs | Subject: Moldflow Design Link 4.0
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 26 September 2003
Latest CAD connectivity solution
supports CATIA V5
Moldflow Design Link (MDL) provides a geometry data translation interface between Moldflow's range of simulation products and leading CAD systems.
Moldflow Design Link (MDL) provides a geometry data translation interface between Moldflow's range of simulation products and leading CAD systems using standard file formats such as IGES, STEP, Parasolid and PTC's Pro/ENGINEER Now, newly released Version 4 (MDL 4.0) also supports Dassault Systemes' CATIA V5 part files, which are based on the Spatial 3D ACIS Interoperability kernel
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 31 Aug 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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Design engineer and early user Mike McCullough from OEM/Erie said: "We've seen a 10% time saving for importing and meshing files using MDL 4.0.
I can now save a CATIA file and read it right into Moldflow software." He continued: "Parts with living hinges, for instance, require very tight meshes in the hinge area.
Further, prior to using MDL 4.0, in order to perform local mesh refinement, I needed regions or surfaces.
The only way to achieve the meshing was to create regions from the meshed entities.
However, in doing so, I lost some of the geometry accuracy if the initial mesh was not dense enough.
Now, using MDL 4.0 surface capability, I can mesh and re-mesh the file as needed and not lose any geometry." Other MDL 4.0 enhancements include the ability for MPI users to specify a target mesh size for models that are meshed directly with MDL and support for Parasolid version 14.1 files.
MDL 4.0 supports MPI 4.0 Revision 1, MPI 4.1 and MPA 6.0 Revision 3 or higher.
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