B2 Spice v5 is the latest version of the popular and powerful mixed mode EDA (Electronic Design Automation) simulator, with new standards in ease-of-use, power, and capabilities. B2 Spice contains a plethora of additional features, from complex digital circuits to radio frequency simulation and PCB design and includes a standard library of over 25,000 parts. There's no limit on the size of your design and results are easy to understand and interpret.



Highlights:

Intuitive User Interface - toolbar, tab, and button driven for more intuitive control

Virtual Instruments - oscilloscope, ammeter, voltmeter, wattmeter, distortion meters, and MORE.

"Live Circuit" Parameters that can be altered as a simulation is running. Results displayed on virtual instruments or on the schematic via circuit animation

Parts Browser with customizable Parts Palette

Curve Tracer to plot the behavior of a device before you place it in your circuit.

Simulation mode - continuous transient simulation

Multiple level tests - Multiple parameter sweeps or Monte Carlo sweeps in ANY test

"Real-world" devices model performance of actual parts such as capacitors, resistors, and inductors.

Circuit Wizard to step you through the creation of the most commonly used circuit configurations

Graphing module - complete control over all aspects of the graph.

Tabbed window projects to keep all the documents in a project in one Window.

Cross Probing that interactively updates the graph as you add or move the probes around the circuit.

Circuit Visualization to display the actual current flow through the circuit and the relative voltage relationships by varying the wire's display color.

Quick, easy, and intuitive schematic entry

Export to and import from Eagle, a world leader in PCB software.

12 powerful tests

25,000 digital and analog parts including hundreds of REALISTIC behavioral models for such parts as resistors, inductors and capacitors.

Parameterized subcircuits

Create a part from any circuit

Password protected defects

Shared models

Database editor to import and manage the library of parts

Integrated symbol editor to create custom device symbols

Improved schematics with DIN and ANSI symbols

RF simulations and network analysis

Schematic borders and title-box for professional output

Smith and polar plots

Intuitive, full featured schematic editor cut, copy and paste of selected items

Undo support

Full device rotation

Device mirroring

Repeat placement of a device

Easy to draw and edit wires

Browse-able, filterable, device libraries

User-defined devices and symbols

Complete macro device capability

Rubber banding of wires and devices

Annotation of devices

Quick menu selection of commonly used parts

Zoom in or out on an area or item with custom zoom factors

Fit circuit to window function

User-selectable colours

Export circuit drawings and waveforms supports all Microsoft Windows driven printers and plotters

Modification of devices and symbols in schematic

Control over fonts and colours in schematic

Export SPICE3 compatible net lists

Generate SPICE3 sub circuits from the circuit

Create part from the circuit

View steady state results directly in the schematic

View node numbers

Colour coded digital wire states

Copy circuit picture to the clipboard for pasting into other applications

Print circuit to any output device

Library Management:

Import your existing SPICE subcircuits and models into parts library

Easily create and modify parts in database

Modify symbols for the parts

Match up symbol pins with model pins to reliably create parts

Modify parameters for behavioural models

Modify parameters for all Spice models

Specify manufacturer, description, and category for parts and models

Parts, models, and symbols are stored in a Microsoft Access database file

Parts Library of over 30,000 parts:

All parts in Berkeley Spice 3F5 and XSpice are included in the parts library

Many digital parts from the most popular libraries.

Parts from vendors such as AMP, APEX, Burr-Brown, Comlinear, Elantec, Linear Technology, Maxim, Motorola, National Semiconductor, Texas Instruments, and more.

Many types of parts specified as subcircuits including Zener diodes, power MOSFET’s, operational amplifiers

Many types of digital parts, including gates, inverters, counters, registers, buffers, coder/decoders, mux/demuxes, and more.

Additional parts specified at a behavioural level including:

Analogue phase locked loop, continuous S domain transfer function, peak detector, sample and hold circuit, Schmitt trigger/ bistable network, voltage noise source, current noise source, piecewise linear system, discrete time Z domain transfer function, and operational amplifier.

These behaviour model parts can be customized from their behavioural parameters:
Resistor, Capacitor, Inductor, Coupled inductors, diode, switches, Bjt, jfet, mosfet (all 6 models), mesfet, lossless transmission line, lossy transmission line, uniform RC line, Controlled sources, voltage and current sources.

Arbitrary source which can be used to model non-linear resistors and other parts.

Parameterised sub circuits give you the ability to alter sub circuit part behaviour.

Highly Accurate Simulations

Run simulation directly from schematic, or from a text window containing a spice deck 32-bit code: DC Bias, DC Sweep, AC Sweep, Transient, Monte Carlo, Noise, Distortion, Fourier, Pole/zero, sensitivity, and transfer function simulations

Show Device and Model parameters in a text window after the simulator has calculated them.

Full set of SPICE and XSpice options, including error tolerances, iteration limits, MOSFET defaults and more.

Pause or stop simulation at any time.

Digital command and vector files give you complete control over digital simulations view simulation results as the data is being collected

Intuitive interface for setting bias point initial guess and transient initial conditions

Multifunction signal generators (sine, single frequency FM, exponential, pulse, sawtooth, triangle, piecewise linear)

Multimeters (measure DC or AC voltage, current)

Unlimited number of instruments

Full screen analogue waveform analysis

Full screen digital trace

View any number of waveform simultaneously

Plot voltage, current, frequency response and dc characteristics

View results in tables and/or graphs

Log of simulation progress, errors, warnings, and statistics provided with each simulation run

Graph Editor

Zoom in or out on a specific point with a magnifying glass cursor

Stretch the plot horizontally or vertically

Squeeze the plot horizontally or vertically

Scroll around the graph

Create your plots by simply entering mathematical expressions

Value labelling of the X and Y axes for all graphics windows

Find and label maximums and minimums

Group plots by families or control them individually

Measurement of differences between specific points on a graph

Measurement cursors provide quick and accurate measurements in all analysis windows

Non-linear math functions

Ability to include “deep” plots of sub circuit nodes

Highlight any plot by clicking on its name in the legend

Zoom in on any plot in the graph by control-clicking on its name

Unlimited number of plots

Set plot colours

Show or hide any plot

Set graph font

Set log or linear scales for x and y axes

Set graph title

Specify engineering or scientific notation

Copy graph picture to the clipboard for pasting into other applications

Print graph to any output device

NX design applications include tools for:

Productive

Complex products and processes demand user interactions and workflows that reduce complexity. NX streamlines decision-making by providing critical information where it is needed. Intelligent user interfaces provide dynamic feedback that accelerates design workflows, whether you are interactively creating product models or weighing performance and manufacturing cost trade-offs.

NX design is intelligent – the productive environment organizes tools, commands and information in straightforward workflows that direct the designer’s input to accomplish tasks very efficiently. On-screen displays provide instant feedback and convenient user input control without diverting attention from the task at hand. Part and assembly navigation aids enable designers to quickly comprehend the structure and techniques used to create product models. To reduce of error, NX provides previews for design commands, helping designers to proceed with confidence.

Structured

NX goes far beyond traditional CAD. Using process automation and knowledge capture tools, NX enables reusable and disciplined processes when required. This directly supports processes like lean design, design for six sigma, component and process reuse, and adherence to organizational and industry standards. NX enables companies to balance structured, repeatable best practices with the flexibility they need to move innovation forward.

NX captures design intent through intelligent user input methods, enabling intelligent design modifications and model updates. It leads the designer through an intuitive process of querying ambiguous design decisions that need to be made when changes occur.

Managed

The seamless integration of NX design with data and process management capabilities ensures a continuously up-to-date and synchronized digital product model for the entire team to use. The NX Engineering Process Management manages and protects your product data with access and security controls. It also helps manage product complexity with automated bill of materials management and synchronization, product configurations, options and variants.

Intuitive workflows in NX present tools to the designer when they are most needed, with real-time feedback.

Industrial Design & Styling (CAID)

Industrial Design & Styling

In many industries, design and styling are the most important differentiating characteristics of products. Innovation in appearance, form, function, and style – distinguishes products when quality and price are virtually indistinguishable. Good design and styling balance aesthetics and ergonomics with the product™s performance, quality, cost, materials, methods of manufacture, and other considerations.

NX goes far beyond traditional CAD to meet the needs of industrial designers, whose innovation and creativity serve as the springboard for inspired new products. At the same time, NX synchronizes the form, fit, and function efforts of designers with all the other disciplines involved in the concept-to-market process. Flexible, idea-sparking tools reside atop a practical platform that maintains data integrity downstream through data associativity. Designers have all the tools they need to explore shape and style while the unified solution ensures a seamless transition into engineering, marketing, and manufacturing.

NX advanced modeling, analysis, and visualization capabilities give stylists the freedom to explore and refine product concepts. Product ideas can be as simple as rough ideas that kickstart the conceptual process; or they can be developed into fully rendered product environment images suitable for presentation. With its easy-to-use, intuitive interface, designers have the freedom of working with 3D paper or virtual clay. And with no data transfer problems, product managers have a level of control like never before.

With a fully integrated industrial design and styling solution in the NX portfolio of products, users can take advantage of an even bigger toolset of modeling, assembly, simulation, manufacturing, and product lifecycle management functionality. The combined strengths of design specific tools and traditional CAD, CAE and CAM tools deliver the most complete industrial design and advanced surfacing solution available.

NX industrial design and styling offers high-performance capabilities for:

Freeform Shape Modeling
Visualization
Automotive Styling
Reverse Engineering
Engineering (CAD), Simulation (CAE) and Manufacturing (CAM) Integration



NX styling and industrial design solutions include:

NX Mach Series Industrial Design Styling – advanced tools for computer-aided industrial design and automotive styling
NX Render and NX Visualize – photo-realistic, high quality imaging for innovative product design

Industrial Design & Styling (CAID):

 

Freeform Shape Modeling

 

NX Shape Studio is a tailored styling and industrial design package that offers the freedom and accuracy designers need to explore shapes and what-if styling in the conceptual modeling phase. By seamlessly integrating curve- and surface-based modeling, NX Shape Studio puts cutting-edge CAD tools into the hands of industrial designers. At the same time, the easy-to-use toolbox fosters innovation. These flexible tools, from drag-and-drop templates to dynamic construction, enable fast, easy creation and evaluation of design alternatives while providing real-time visual feedback. And there's no worry about changes or iterations, as associativity takes care of downstream data integrity.

With Shape Studio, designers can use practically any approach or modeling technique. For example, the designer might begin modeling by using standard parametric design techniques that employ curve-driven geometry. Then, when creating contours and integrating ergonomics, the designer might use freeform techniques. Or the designer could begin modeling without precise definitions, adding geometric constraints later. Construction geometry and style details can be rapidly generated by the dynamic mapping of 3D curves onto freeform shapes. Or surfaces can be constructed using pre-set combinations of section and guide curves, with the designer monitoring impact as it occurs.

All model data transfers directly downstream. And the fully associative database ensures that any changes are automatically updated in related applications such as engineering design, assembly, drafting, simulation, and manufacturing.

Easy surface editing and blending

The NX Shape Studio modeling toolset has multiple controls for editing and blending surfaces. Designers can easily deform surfaces via stretching, bending, twisting, and skewing curvature. Slider controls and a real-time, dynamic display ensure a simple and reliable approach to deformations. Surfaces can be swooped quickly by creating and editing b-surfaces, with the designer specifying the diagonal vertices of the surface and shape characteristics such as bend. NX Shape Studio also provides the ability to blend across multiple surfaces and solid faces while maintaining constraints along the edges of the blend. As with other functionality, the emphasis is on ease of use and dynamic display of results.

Precision continuity and style manipulation

NX Shape Studio enables designers to modify a selected surface so it is geometrically continuous with one or more reference objects. This dynamic tool eliminates gaps between surfaces or surface edges. Options allow the designer to specify the continuity, from positional through G3. As a fully associative feature, surface-to-surface continuity is maintained even when subsequent changes are made to the base geometry. Styling geometry, including curves and surfaces, can be modified by editing the control poles or points. A range of functions ensures that designers can control the effects of their manipulations, including restricting regions, thereby controlling the global reach of changes. Once again, real-time feedback keeps the designer informed about impact.

Thorough model analysis

NX Shape Studio analysis tools guarantee precisely defined product models, including "perfect" Class A surface models. Analytic gauges and visualization options can be applied to surfaces or curves, providing immediate feedback by measuring deviation, curvature, rate of curvature changes, and surface smoothness during geometry manipulation. Aside from examining the overall design, these sophisticated tools ensure design manufacturability and feasibility from both engineering and production points of view.

 

The ideal tool for creating technical illustrations and documentation, Corel DESIGNER® Technical Suite X4 is a complete technical graphics application that offers precision illustration tools, bitmap-to-vector tracing, professional photo editing and industry-leading file compatibility, including 3D CAD.

Corel DESIGNER Technical Suite X4 is the trusted choice for businesses that need to effectively communicate the strengths of their products and services through clear, informative technical illustrations or diagrams. From operation guides and parts catalogs, to schematics, wiring diagrams, assembly instructions, maintenance manuals and architectural presentations, this complete suite allows organizations of any size to create powerful technical graphics—fast!

What's Included

• Corel DESIGNER® X4 - a precision vector drawing and layout application for technical illustrators
• Corel PHOTO-PAINT® X4 - an easy-to-use, professional image-editing program
• Corel® PowerTRACE™ X4 - an accurate bitmap-to-vector image tracing application
• Corel CAPTURE™ X4 - a one-click screen capture utility
• Right Hemisphere® Deep Exploration™ 5.5 CSE - a powerful application that transforms 3D designs into accurate 2D illustrations
• User Guides - for Corel DESIGNER X4 and Corel PHOTO-PAINT® X4 (on CD and as a printed manual in the box)
• 4,000 standard drawing components, categorized in over 75 symbol libraries
• Tutorials - 6 new Corel DESIGNER tutorials, 5 new Corel PHOTO-PAINT tutorials, tips & tricks

Access Technical Design Assets

New! 3D CAD Import

Open and work with 3D designs (including AutoCAD® 3D DWG™ and DXF™, 3DS, VRML, U3D, SketchUp™ files and others) without needing a CAD license or having to navigate a complicated interface.

Optional: Additional native 3D CAD File Format Support

Upgrade to Deep Exploration CCE for direct access to over 80 3D file formats from major CAD systems such as CATIA®, Inventor®, Pro/ENGINEER®, SolidWorks®, Unigraphics® NX and more. Find out more about this add-on tool.

Enhanced! AutoCAD DWG/DXF Support

Work with 2D CAD files from your suppliers or customers. Receive support for AutoCAD 2008 and versions dating back to 2.5, plus enjoy enhanced object, layer and hatch fills support.

New and enhanced! File Format Support

Easily collaborate with colleagues and clients thanks to seamless compatibility with commonly used file formats, including new support for Microsoft® Visio 2007, PDF 1.7 and PDF/A, Microsoft® Word 2007, Microsoft® Publisher® and JPEG 2000.

Computer Graphics Metafile (CGM) Support

Import and export to files of CGM Version 4 profiles, such as ActiveCGM, WebCGM, and ATA GREXCHANGE 2.4 and 2.6.

New! Corel® PowerTRACE™ X4

Quickly unlock and repurpose data in legacy blueprints.

New! Welcome Screen

Quickly access recently used documents, templates, learning tools and inspiring illustration work.

New! Windows Vista® Integration

Easily organize projects and search for files within a modern, more intuitive interface, and benefit from high-quality thumbnail previews that improve productivity and reduce searching time.

New! CorelDRAW® ConceptShare™

Share work and collaborate with colleagues and/or clients in real time.

Streamline Technical Illustrations

New! Object Coordinate Docker

Draw, size and rotate shapes and lines with enhanced precision and live screen preview.

Enhanced! Dimension Tools

Create custom dimensions and dimension styles with advanced control for clearly readable illustrations.

Enhanced! Arrowheads

Add precise arrowheads to connectors, callouts, dimension lines and any curve.

Projected Drawing Modes

Dramatically increase productivity by actively drawing on the projected plane, removing the need to draw the object first and then project or squeeze it in additional steps.

Hatch Fills

Use hatch patterns to represent different types of materials and to visualize cross sections in your drawing.

Enhanced! 2-point Line Tool

Draw lines that are tangent or perpendicular to two objects, making it much easier to draw objects such as cylinders.

Callout Tools

Create Callouts to let your audience identify objects in a drawing. This one-click tool lets you create callouts including text, callout lines and halos around the whole callout, providing presets and customizable settings.

Gravity Snapping and Dynamic Guides

Create and position objects accurately using gravity snapping and fully configurable dynamic guides that snap to direction and distance.

New! Independent Page Layers

Experience greater layout control with the ability to vary the layer structure across multiple pages of a document.

New! Crop Tool

Crop drawing objects and groups, as well as imported images, at the same time to achieve perfect illustrations.

New! Smart Fill Tool

Use the Smart Fill tool to detect the edges of any enclosed object area, such as cross section areas, and create a closed path to fill the area (unlike conventional fill tools that fill only existing objects).

Hotspotting

Manage a complex project and create interactive electronic technical manuals (IETMs) by assigning data to its objects.

Enhanced Line Styles

Illustrate stitch patterns and draw parallel lines with the help of enhanced line styles.

New! Interactive Tables

Align, resize or edit tables and table cells to provide a structured layout for text and graphics, plus import and visualize parts lists, bills of materials (BOMs) and other data.

New! Text Formatting

Preview text formatting changes before applying them to increase the accuracy of text size, style and positioning. The new Character and Paragraph formatting dockers provide a full preview onscreen to help streamline changes to text.

Unicode Support and Double-byte Formatting

Exchange files effortlessly by ensuring that text is displayed correctly, regardless of the language or operating system in which the file was created.

Create Precise Technical Diagrams

Enhanced! Support for Microsoft Visio Files

Import and work with the latest versions of Microsoft Visio files, making it easier to collaborate with colleagues and clients, enhance existing diagrams and integrate them into technical illustrations.

Enhanced! Connector Lines

Automatically adjust connector line paths to avoid other objects using Smart Drawing technology.

New! Halos on Curves

Identify connector lines more easily and add precision and clarity to diagrams.

Edit Technical Images

New! Raw Camera File Support

Preview adjustments in real time with interactive controls and support for raw camera files from over 300 camera models.

New! Image Adjustment Lab

Achieve professional-quality color and tone correction.

New! Straighten Image

Use new, interactive controls to quickly and easily straighten images.

Enhanced! Tone Curve Adjustments

Adjust images with more precision, reducing the number of iterations required.

Enhanced! Cutout Lab

Gain control, improve accuracy and simplify the image-cutting process for complex cutout tasks.

BENTLEY WATERCAD 8.0 XM UNLIMITED PIPES!

Hydraulic, Fire-flow, Water-quality, and Operations Modeling

Engineers can use WaterCAD’s built-in water-quality features to perform constituent, water-age, tank-mixing and source-trace analysis to develop comprehensive chlorination schedules, simulate mock contamination events, model flow-paced and mass-booster stations, visualize zones of influence for every water source. They can also improve turbidity, taste, and odor by identifying water-blending problems and recommending solutions.

With WaterCAD, users can also automatically determine water availability for fire-protection needs.Heroturko  They can calculate how much flow is available at any hydrant or group of hydrants in the system, based on pressure and flow constraints dictated by local regulations. Users can quickly and accurately establish the ability of the water network to provide adequate protection against fires. Also, WaterCAD’s rule-based operational controls, variable speed pumping (VSP), leakage and sprinkler modeling, and unidirectional flushing utilities help users find operational bottlenecks, minimize energy consumption, and model real-time operations.

Easy-to-use Interface

The stand-alone interface offers unparalleled versatility and power with easy–to-use model-layout tools, multiple-background support, conversion utilities from CAD, GIS, and databases, and unlimited undo and redo layout. The AutoCAD interface is designed for users who want a higher level of precision by seamlessly integrating their WaterCAD models in a CAD environment. Engineers can choose between scaled, schematic, and hybrid layout environments to create pipes, junctions, tanks, reservoirs, pumps, and valves. Splitting, morphing, and reconnecting elements can be done on the fly, while automatic labeling, element prototypes, and drawing review tools speed up the model-building process.

• Stand-alone interface
• AutoCAD interface
• Unlimited undo and redo
• Element morphing, splitting, and reconnection
• Automatic element labeling
• Scaled, schematic, and hybrid environments
• Element prototypes
• Aerial view and dynamic zooming
• Named views library
• Multiple background-layer support
• Image, CAD, and GIS background support

Streamlined Model Building and Editing

WaterCAD users can use virtually any data source to jumpstart the model-building process to get a water distribution model up and running in no time. Users can enter elevation data automatically using 2D & 3D CAD features, digital-elevations models and spot elevations; use CAD drawings to directly create hydraulically connected models; import topology and data from GIS; and create persistent, bidirectional connections between shapefiles, databases, spreadsheets, and the WaterCAD model.

WaterCAD includes a wealth of data management utilities to help shorten workflows and provide more time to analyze results and make decisions once the model is created. Users enjoy flexible tabular reports with global attribute edition, persistent filtering, sorting, statistical analysis, and full tabular personalization; engineering libraries, dynamic and static selection sets; and engineering-unit management.

• Polyline-to-pipe conversion from DXF files
• Spreadsheet, database, and ODBC connections
• Daily, weekly, monthly, and superimposed patterns
• Unaccounted-for water and leakage estimation
• Composite demands global edition
• Area, count, discharge, and population-based loading
• Pipe length-based demand loading
• Elevation extraction from CAD drawings and surfaces
  (AutoCAD interface only)
• Series-pipes skeletonizationHeroturko 
• Parallel-pipes skeletonization
• Branch-trimming skeletonization
• Multi-criteria automated skeletonization

Comprehensive Scenario Management

WaterCAD’s unique Scenario Control Center gives engineers full control to configure, run, evaluate, visualize, and compare an unlimited number of scenarios within a single file. Engineers can consider multiple design, planning, analysis, and operational scenarios to make reliable decisions for their water distribution infrastructure. They can easily set up unlimited modeling scenarios to analyze and compare rehabilitation alternatives for multiple planning horizons, pump control strategies for energy-saving operation, or flushing alternatives for emergency contamination events.

Interoperability and Data Connections

• One set of files for two compatible interfaces
• Bidirectional synchronized database connections
• Bidirectional synchronized Shapefile connections
• Polyline-to-pipe connections from DXF files
• Spreadsheet, database, and ODBC connections
• SCADAConnectâ„¢ available for live data connections

Results Presentation

• Thematic mapping
• Dynamic, multi-parameter, and multi-scenario
• Graphing
• Contouring
• Advance profiling
• Advanced tabular reporting with FlexTables
• Property-based color coding and symbology
• Property-based annotation

Model Management

• Unlimited scenarios and alternatives
• Comprehensive scenario management
• Tree-based scenario and alternative management
• Scenario and alternative inheritance properties
• Global attribute tabular edition
• Sorting and persistent filtering on tabular reports
• Statistical analysis from tabular reports
• Automated-model skeletonization
• Personalized engineering libraries
• Dynamic and static selection sets
• Local and global engineering-units management
• Sub-model management
• Drawing review tools for connectivity consistency
• Automatic topology review
• Orphaned nodes and dead-end pipes queries

Optimization

• Genetic algorithm calibration, design, and rehabilitation
• Automated model calibration with Darwin Calibratorâ„¢
• Optimized design and rehabilitation with Darwin Designerâ„¢

Energy and Capital Cost Management

• Energy-cost analysis
• Capital-cost analysis
• Automatic design and rehabilitation

Tekla Structures software is a building information modeling (BIM) tool that streamlines the delivery process of design, detailing, manufacture, and construction organizations. While integrating openly with architectural models, the strength of this single-model environment lies in the contractor end of the process. Thousands of Tekla Structures software users in more than 80 countries have successfully delivered BIM-based projects across the world.

Tekla Structures' ability to process extensive amounts of data offers the possibility to create a detailed 3D model that applies to every stage of design and construction. From planning and design development thru to fabrication and installation, Tekla models naturally develop in parallel, representing the "as-built" condition of a building. Tekla Structures effectively integrates into any best-of-breed software driven workflow, while maintaining the highest levels of data integrity and accuracy. Such collaborative workflows are the cornerstone to minimizing errors and maximizing efficiency, resulting in high profitability and on-time project completion. Tekla Structures encompasses specialized configurations for structural engineers, steel detailers and fabricators, precast concrete detailers and manufacturers, as well as contractors.

BIM solution for construction management 

Managing the fragmented project planning and performance data is a challenge in streamlining the delivery process of construction organizations. Tekla Structures software helps to plan, communicate, and manage project information and thereby effectively supports Building Information Modeling (BIM). The Tekla model can be used to store all the structural data from preconstruction, construction planning through to site management and to monitor performance from design to supply and installation.

Plan, communicate and manage project information

Tekla Structures for construction management is an information-model-based software solution that supports contractors, sub-contractors, and project management professionals by helping them to centralize and visualize project data. Scheduling and cost estimation and control can be carried out by an effective communication and decision-making process that results from managing the fragmented nature of both project planning and performance data. 

Tekla Structures can process large amounts of model and non-model data regardless of the source. The software can be used to leverage the critical transfer of design information and planning data between design and construction teams. This clarifies communication and decision-making throughout the design, construction, and site management phases of a building project.

Preconstruction 

The critical objectives to meet during the preconstruction phase of a building project are:

Tekla (BIM) process combines both building geometry and its element-specific properties to help construction managers reach these objectives. Sophisticated design and reporting tools allow the user to illustrate various levels of completeness to quantify the variety of alternative design proposals.

Tekla Structures software effectively enhances communication among project participants to realize design intent and ultimately meet owner expectations.

The Tekla model can be used to

• Determine the complexity of the project
• Extract quantities
• Determine project budgets, general schedules, and resource availability
• Associate lead times, delivery dates, methods, and materials
• Understand the scope of labor and materials

Construction planning 

The transition from preliminary estimates to procuring and coordinating actual project resources starts once a project is awarded.
 
Tekla Structures software ensures that perspectives on scope and schedule dates are clearly communicated. Publishing and sharing the model on the web enhances efficient design which translates into easier and faster fabrication. Tekla's construction management solution enables a well-informed and streamlined procurement process and facilitates accurate cost control during the production and delivery stages of the project.

Interoperability is essential, especially during construction planning. Use of the Tekla Open API™ helps to centralize and distribute the critical exchanges of data that control production and eventually activate the supply chain.

The Tekla model can be used to

BIM solution for structural engineering 

Tekla offers structural engineers a Building Information Modeling (BIM) solution that supports construction from conceptual design through to fabrication, erection, and site management.

Tekla Structures software is a more efficient way of working for structural engineering offices. It includes a complete set of tools for working with other disciplines, enabling structural engineers to compete for more complex and prestigious contracts.

Tekla Structures' project management functionality allows showing building information graphically to create a better understanding of the project's overall status.
 
The Tekla model easily combines different building materials to promote efficient project management and error-free collaboration throughout the entire building value chain. Tekla Structures can be used to create all types of structures.

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More than detailing software 

Tekla has been providing steel detailers and fabricators with industry-leading software for nearly 20 years. Tekla Structures is the most advanced Building Information Modeling (BIM) software on the market. It streamlines the entire workflow from sales, bidding, cost estimation, and conceptual design to detailing, fabrication, erection, and follow-up. Tekla Structures not only increases productivity in each phase, but also enhances the entire building value chain. 

Innovative technology

The structural steel industry is facing more challenges due to shorter lead times, lack of complete information, problems in revision handling, and a wider need to collaborate with other disciplines. Tekla Structures enables the most data-rich, highly constructable 3D and 4D structural building information models, and is a significant contrast to current document-based platforms where drawings and reports are distributed and reworked among different organizations.

Key benefits of Tekla Structures for the steel industry include

Integration with other systems

Tekla Structures software integrates with other systems such as production and resource planning systems and CNC machines. Such collaboration allows all project participants to access project information in real-time. 

Solution areas for steel:
Estimation
Detailing
Fabrication
Erection

The future of precast 

Tekla Structures is much more than design and detailing software for the precast concrete industry.  It is the most accurate and comprehensive parametric 3D Building Information Modeling (BIM) tool on the market. Tekla Structures streamlines the entire workflow from sales, bidding, cost estimation and conceptual design to detailing, fabrication, erection and follow-up.

Increased productivity through 3D modeling

  The precast industry is rapidly shifting towards the use of 3D modeling tools. The biggest benefit for precast fabricators is increased productivity through more effective detailing and production processes. Such efficiency results in elements being produced on schedule and delivered as a perfect-fit solution. The key benefits of using the Tekla Structures 3D modeling solution include

• Winning more tenders through accurate estimation
• Effective detailing
• Integration with fabrication
• Easy project follow-up

Integration with other systems and materials

Tekla Structures software allows integration with other systems such as production or resource planning and machine automation systems as well as company-specific solutions, making the production process more effective.
 
This is enabled by a set of interoperability tools that allow integrating with other best-of-breed third-party products and building disciplines through, for example, Tekla Open API™, an open interface that can be used for special integration or development purposes.

In addition, Tekla Structures easily combines precast concrete with other building materials, such as steel and reinforced concrete, to promote efficient project management and error-free collaboration throughout the entire building value chain.

Powerful tool for concrete design 

Cast-in-place concrete is an integral element of every building structure, and therefore a major concern with contractors.

Tekla Structures software is a powerful tool that integrates reinforcement information with building materials and follows the entire project from design through to construction. It is the only solution where rebar information such as rebar bending schedules can be integrated and used for construction purposes.

Increased productivity and cost reduction

Detailing with Tekla Structures software greatly increases the productivity of reinforced concrete detailing. The Tekla model can be used to store and utilizes all 4D analyses, rebar quantities, and 'as-built' construction information within a single location.

Enhanced collaboration and project management

Tekla Structures allows real-time collaboration between the reinforcing bar detailer, contractor and other project disciplines to create a smooth flow of information transfer.

• Users create construction level reinforcing information and analyze it with other design disciplines
• The platform supports interoperability through Tekla Open API™

Engineering 

Tekla Structures, Engineering is a standard configuration that enables synchronized engineering. Professionals in structural engineering and design can collaborate with other project participants and stakeholders using the same shared model.

The modeling function allows users to

The output function allows users to

• Customize drawing title blocks and reports
• Create general arrangement drawings (plan, section, erection)
• Print and plot drawings and reports
• Create reports (assembly lists, part lists)

The collaboration properties allow users to

• Work simultaneously on the same model with several users
• Interface with other tools and disciplines
• Exchange data ( CIS/2 format, MIS systems)
• Import external/export data via links (FEM, SDNF, XML)
• Import and export data via IFC 2x2, 2x3 and Tekla Open API™
• Data exchange interface with Analysis and Design software
• Import and export graphic 2D and 3D data (DXF, DGN, DWG)

DIAdem is software for managing, analyzing, and reporting data collected during data acquisition and/or generated during simulations. DIAdem is designed to help you make informed decisions and meet the demands of today’s testing environments, which require quick access to large volumes of scattered data, consistent reporting, and data visualization. The DIAdem DataFinder, which is optimized for managing data from multiple sources and different formats, helps you correlate data based on its descriptive attributes – functionality previously reserved for only those with a customized data management system.

DIAdem Packages

Base Edition

Advanced Edition

Professional Edition

NI Developer Suite

Technical Data Management (TDM) File Format
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DataPlugins
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	Find and work with data regardless of format

NI DataFinder Server Edition
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	Expand your data management solution for large groups

Engineers worldwide in aerospace, defense, automotive, and academia rely on the industry-proven National Instruments MATRIXx product family for model-based design, simulation, and embedded code generation. With the NI MATRIXx software suite, you gain a complete solution from initial design to final production for your dynamic embedded control system.

Graphical Simulation and Control Design Software

SystemBuild

Graphical Modeling and Simulation

Xmath

Analysis and Visualization

AutoCode

Automatic Code Generation

Highlights

Introduction to MATRIXx

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Bring Requirements Traceability to MATRIXx

Discover NI Requirements Gateway

Connect Your MATRIXx Models to the Real World

Integrate MATRIXx and LabVIEW

For more than 20 years, NI LabVIEW graphical development has revolutionized the development of scalable test, measurement, and control applications. Regardless of experience, engineers and scientists can rapidly and cost-effectively interface with measurement and control hardware, analyze data, share results, and distribute systems.

LabVIEW Key Benefits:

Graphical Programming High-Level Development Tools

Built-In Measurement and Analysis Functions Multiplatform and Embedded Devices

LabVIEW Add-On Modules and Toolkits

Application Distribution and Device Targeting Software Engineering Tools Data Visualization and Management Real-Time and FPGA Development Embedded Development

Signal Processing, Analysis, and Math Image Acquisition, Analysis, and Machine Vision Automated Test Control Design and Simulation Industrial Control

National Instruments LabWindows/CVI is a proven ANSI C integrated development environment that provides engineers and scientists with a comprehensive set of programming tools for creating test and control applications. NI LabWindows/CVI combines the longevity and reusability of ANSI C with engineering-specific functionality designed for instrument control, data acquisition, analysis, and user interface development.

LabWindows/CVI Modules and Toolkits

LabWindows/CVI Real-Time Module

Create reliable and deterministic ANSI C applications running on COTS hardware (includes PID Control Toolkit).

Vision Development Module

Develop applications using image processing and machine vision functions and display tools.

LabWindows/CVI Run-Time Module for Linux®

Build multiplatform applications that run on Windows and Linux OSs.

Database Connectivity (SQL) Toolkit

Quickly log and retrieve test data from databases.

Advanced Signal Processing Toolkit

Perform time-frequency analysis, time-series analysis, and design wavelets.

PID Control Toolkit

Add sophisticated control algorithms to your Windows and real-time applications

Measurement Studio is an integrated suite of classes and controls for test, measurement, and automation applications in Microsoft Visual Studio 2008/2005/.NET 2003 and Visual Studio 6.0. Measurement Studio dramatically reduces application development time by providing Windows Forms, Web Forms, and ActiveX user interface components designed for engineers, advanced scientific analysis, and data acquisition (DAQ) and instrument control assistants optimized for test.