Automotive engineering projects use large multidisciplinary teams dealing with mechanical, electronic, software and human factors issues. Collaborating across a global supply chain while meeting tightening cost and reliability requirements makes it imperative to use the best state-of-the-art integration tools.

InterCAX solutions for the automotive industry are based on the new SysML (Systems Engineering Modeling Language) standard from the Object Management Group and the ISO 10303 STEP product data models, including AP203, AP210, AP212, and other. Using data models that are

and provides our customers with flexible interfaces to all their legacy tools, from mechanical CAD to finite element solvers to embedded software development platforms. InterCAX can help in a variety of ways:

Systems Engineering

New SysML authoring tools 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 and electronic 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.