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En mai 2016, Ceetron a mis sur le marché une interface Python vers 3D Components. En tant que coupable d’une grande partie de cet interfaçage, je me suis vu « gentiment proposer » d’écrire un blog autour de Python et son utilité pour les développeurs utilisant 3D Components. L’éditeur du blog a tout de suite donné le ton : « Andres, t’as qu’à écrire un truc marketing à propos de notre dernière…

Python and the CAE engineer: made for each other… of course!

In May 2016, Ceetron released 3D Components with Python bindings. When this happened, I (as responsible for quite a lot of the binding work) was tasked with writing a blog post about Python and 3D Components.  The editor of the blog bluntly told me:  “Andres, just write something marketingish about our new release”, for example along the lines of ‘debunking the myth of not being able to create…

Le tardif guide d’achat VR du Père Noël pour l’ingénieur numérique

(A nos lecteurs francophones : ce blog est une traduction / réécriture d’un post en anglais publié précédemment. Il a été créé pour rendre service à nos lecteurs de langue française.)

(To our English-speaking readers: This blog post is a translation / rewrite of an earlier blog post in English.  It has been created as a service to our French-speaking readers.)

Soyons francs, je dois vous avouer…

Santa’s (Belated) VR Christmas Gift Guide, for the Serious CAE Professional

I must admit I stole the title of this blog post from Steven Rosenbaum, in a Forbes’ tech article, see http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevenrosenbaum/2016/11/29/santas-vr-christmas-gift-guide/. Though his article is about consumer VR, I think he is in full alignment with most CAE industry analysts when he makes the observation that “various [technology] prognosticators have proclaimed that 2016 will…

34th CADFEM ANSYS Simulation Conference: trip report and reflections on the innovation processes of smaller German CAE software companies and on remote visualization

Grim Gjønnes, Head of Sales & Marketing, Ceetron AS.

I am just back from CADFEM’s 34th Fachkonferenz zur numerischen Simulation in der Produktentwicklung.  The event took place in Nürnberg during October 5-7, 2016.  It was a wonderful event for any engineer with interest in FEA, CFD, or DEM: 700-800 CAE professionals in dark suits from major German engineering organizations discussing key…

Interview with Ceetron CTO Fredrik Viken about Ceetron’s upcoming release of their SDK for 3D visualization for cloud-based CAE applications

By Grim Gjønnes*, Crisp Ideas AS

The cloudification of CAE applications is picking up speed. Established vendors like ANSYS, Autodesk and Dassault Systèmes Simulia, as well as newcomers such as Onshape, SimSolid and FIDESYS have recently announced new cloud-based offerings, or cloud-based extensions of their existing offerings. Last year Ceetron, the market leader in 3D visualization for CAE,…

Xamarin for the CAE community, some reflections based on a PoC for a port of Ceetron 3D Components to Xamarin

By Frode Brandt, Senior Software Engineer at Ceetron AS

On February 24 2016, Microsoft announced the acquisition of Xamarin, a development environment for mobile devices using C# with native user interfaces and shared code across multiple platforms, including Apple iOS, Android, and Windows Apps.  Then on March 31 2016, and at its Build Conference in San Francisco, Microsoft announced that the…

Security architectures for cloud-based CAE and SPDM offerings, an interview with Ceetron’s CTO Fredrik Viken

Fredrik Viken. CTO Ceetron

The benefits of CAE in the cloud appear clear (see the blog post https://ceetronblog.com/2015/12/14/cae-in-the-cloud/ for an overview, from a Ceetron perspective). Ceetron is committed to a strategy of making 3D visualization in the cloud as efficient and immersive as it is on any desktop. Major CAE tool vendors like Simulia, Autodesk, Siemens, ANSYS, and others offer…

The future of reporting CFD and FEA simulation results in engineering organizations, a perspective from the trenches

Tor Helge Hansen, CEO of Ceetron

Some days ago, we released Ceetron Report Component (CRC), a tool for ISVs who create end user software for the CAE community. CRC’s goal is simple; it lets end users create engineering reports directly in the formats of MS Word or MS PowerPoint. But the need for such a tool illuminates some interesting trends in CAE, all centered on the changing requirements for…

Visualization in the cloud for CAE: A tale of two architectures

In 2010, Ceetron began to re-shape our 3D Components software to be the visualization platform for a cloud-based world. The effort had two linked goals:

To enable the visualization of any CAE model on any device. This is an obvious necessity, given the emerging business model of distributed collaboration, and the rapid increase in the performance of tablet and phone GPUs/CPUs.

To create, in the…

Ceetron Cloud–A partial, but crucial step towards CAE in the cloud

So, CAE engineer friend, having doubts about this cloud thing when it comes to professional data? Me too. Well not really, I must admit things are starting to clear up a bit. Let me tell you why.

When you come to think of it, I even wonder why I am writing this blog. We have all become so used to sharing our latest pics and videos in the cloud, that extending that behavior to professional data…

The future of visualization solutions for HPC and HPC-based visualization, in CAE space

Over the last few weeks, I have been involved in discussion with various external parties about Ceetron’s visualization solutions and how they can be applied in the HPC world.  I thought it could be interesting to explore this issue in more depth, with some assistance from my colleague Andres Rodriguez-Villa.

Ceetron has for many years had a presence within the HPC community, but primarily as…

Data exchange format standardization in the CAE market, and the case for standardization on VTFx

Grim Gjønnes, Dr. Ing., General Manager Crisp Ideas

(DISCLOSURE: While an employee of Crisp Ideas AS, Oslo, Norway and adviser in the areas of business development and strategy to technology companies, I have and have had engagements with Ceetron AS, the owner of the VTFx data exchange format.)

The VTFx data exchange format has a long history in the CAE community, with the original specification…

Some weeks ago, I came back from the NAFEMS* World Congress on CAE in San Diego where a question that I had thought resolved, was still (decades after the widespread adoption of 3D visualization technology) generating disagreement.

In preparing for my trip to NAFEMS, I had re-read a thread in LinkedIn’s CAE Professionals Group that explored (see https://www.linkedin.com/grp/post/135216-5969616004…

Andres Rodriguez-Villa

How many Ferraris did you see this morning on your way to work?

Unless you work in the Maranello-based company, zero is the most likely answer. Of course, some days you will stumble upon one – there are car buyers wealthy enough to indulge in indecently horse-powered models…. even if those horses are not necessary for everyday journeys. The case of silicon horses powering a…

Tor Helge Hansen, Managing Director Ceetron AS.

When I speak to FEA- or CFD-based simulator providers about the case for replatforming to an industrial-grade 3D visualization platform, I often hear a two-part response:

Yes, it looks technically good and robust, but

It will be tough to convince the CEO about its financial merits.

This is where a combination of Net Present Value (NPV) and…

According to a French saying, it is wise to turn your tongue seven times in your mouth before you speak.

The publication of a recent blog post (http://ceetronblog.com/2015/05/05/big-3d-in-the-cloud/) suggests I still haven’t learned this wisdom. A colleague argued in that post that the typical size of today’s engineering simulation unstructured mesh topologies should be counted in the tens of…