Defense and aerospace companies use the most advanced software  tools available for design, simulation, and systems engineering, but getting these tools to work together efficiently is a challenge. InterCAX can help in a variety of ways:

Systems Engineering

New SysML and DoDAF standards make it easier to map out and communicate high level system architecture and objectives. InterCAX Parametrics solvers turn the diagrams into working models, enabling model validation and “what-if analysis” at the systems engineering level.

Product Simulation

Simulation of mechanical, electronic, and thermal performance are key to meeting systems requirements, but computer-aided design tools and simulation programs like finite-element analysis cannot share data readily. InterCAX design-analysis templates let the user create solvable models quickly and automatically from the CAD design files, while capturing the unique characteristics of each design.

ECAD-MCAD Interoperability

Harmonizing design information between mechanical (MCAD) and electrical (ECAD) computer-aided design tools is labor-intensive and a constant source of errors. InterCAX provides a suite of converters, viewers, editors and comparators based on the international open STEP standards that simplify information exchange and revision.

Long-term Data Archiving

Long product lifecycles and government requirements make long-term retention of design information and technical documentation imperative. Product data management systems using the vendor-neutral international STEP standards meet government requirements for long-term accessibility and enable design conversion to new formats as they develop.