Customers & Applications

Computer-Aided Design (CAD)

CAD is used extensively to create the complex geometry required for consumer and industrial products. Parasolid is used to model complex part geometry in the first instance, and enable modifications through design iterations and reuses.

Parasolid’s ability to quickly modify complex design models (also known as tweaking) without failure or user-intervention is an excellent benchmark for the robustness and performance of a solid modeler.

CAD software vendors who license Parasolid include Bentley Systems, Fujitsu, IronCAD, Onshape, Shapr3D, and Top Systems.

Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE)

Parts designed in Parasolid applications can be transferred without translation to CAE software for creating a finite element analysis (FEA) mesh, and to support a vast array of analysis techniques based on CAD models. Typically, the analysis specialist will make small non-structural changes to a part to accelerate the engineering analysis.

Increasingly, CAE users want to modify the part after each analysis to optimize its characteristics without referring to the originating CAD system.

CAE software vendors who license Parasolid include Altair, ANSYS, COMSOL, MSC Software, Simscale and many others.

Computer-Aided Manufacturing (CAM)

Parts designed in Parasolid applications can be transferred without translation to CAM software to generate CNC instructions or tooling design. Manufacturing specialists often make small non-functional changes to optimize the part for manufacturing. Examples include standardizing concave blend sizes to match a particular cutter or adjusting taper angles to ensure better ejection from a mold.

CAM software vendors who license Parasolid include CNC Software, DP Technology, GO2cam, Missler Software, Renishaw, Thermwood, Vero Software and many others.

Visualization

Visualization applications often need to import parts from a variety of design applications, each of which may be running different versions. Parasolid’s data strategy guarantees upward compatibility for Parasolid files dating back to the first release, giving access to a large proportion of the world’s 3D CAD data with total reliability, making it the obvious choice as a core modeler.

Parasolid’s high-performance faceting functionality also offers extensive control over the tessellated output, making it ideal for generating the precise format required to optimize image speed and quality.