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permanent mode. Bricsys claims that this rendering technology is one of the fastest in the industry. Lights and materials can be defined in the drawing explorer. Settings to define materials allow fine-tuning to the very last detail. The company states that Bricsys for linux is under development.
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Program to simulate the performance of DuPont Energain DuPont Building Innovations and Environmental Design Solution Ltd (EDSL), one of the UK’s leading building simulation software houses, have developed an innovative program to simulate the performance of DuPont Energain, a phase change material that acts in panel form as a lightweight thermal mass solution.
This modelling software called
Energain Thermal Mass Builder helps architects, engineering
offices and specifiers accurately and quickly determine the impact of DuPont Energain on a building’s energy and interior comfort. The software interfaces with EDSL’s established Tas Building Designer software which is approved by the CLG (Communities and Local Government) for both Building Regulation Part L2 and the Energy Performance Certificate calculations. EDSL Tas Building Designer software has a modular design and is split into three main programs, the 3D Modeller, Building Simulator and Results Viewer. The intuitive Windows interface has features such as undo/redo, drag drop, context menus etc. all making the software more productive and easier to use. The program architecture clearly defines the simulation workflow process facilitating methodical working by the Engineer.
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FDTD Solutions 7.0 improved Vancouver-based Lumerical Solutions, a global provider of nanophotonic design software, has unveiled a number of improvements to its flagship product, FDTD Solutions 7.0. These include an integrated parameter sweep and optimisation environment, industry’s first conformal mesh for nanophotonic design, an extended set of simulation primitives to facilitate the design of complex devices, and support for Mac OS X. Providing a means by which end users can achieve greater computational efficiency and improved accuracy through its implementation of Conformal Mesh technology, FDTD Solutions 7.0 has been designed for optimisation, computation speed and accuracy. ‘We use FDTD Solutions to solve for light propagation in thin-film solar cells,’ said Dr Inna
Kozinsky, senior engineer at the Bosch Research and Technology Center in Palo Alto, CA. ‘Since real-life solar cell devices are quite complex and contain many layers of materials, the conformal mesh of FDTD Solutions 7.0 will allow us to optimise the absorption in the solar cell active layers instead of setting up very fine meshes by hand and analysing large amounts of simulation results.’
The optimisation framework integrated within FDTD Solutions 7.0 will significantly reduce the time required to optimise multi- parameter device designs.
www.lumerical.com
Engineering software tool for design, modelling and high- performance simulation The latest version of high- performance physical modelling and simulation tool MapleSim 4.5 has been announced by Maplesoft. Based on advanced
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