Product Development
Maple 13 and MapleSim 2 Now Available!
 Maple 13 is the essential technical computing software for today’s engineers, mathematicians, and scientists. Whether you need to do quick calculations, develop design sheets, teach fundamental concepts, or produce sophisticated high-fidelity simulation models, Maple 13’s world-leading computation engine offers the breadth and depth to handle every type of mathematics. >>click here for more information on Maple 13
 MapleSim 2 is a high-performance multi-domain modelling and simulation tool that will revolutionise how you bring new products to market. In MapleSim, the world's most advanced symbolic computing engine comes together with traditional numeric solvers to supercharge the simulation and modelling process. >>click here for more information on MapleSim 2
PTC Windchill 9.1 Release
 Windchill 9.1 offers improved support for key product development processes, plus a range of improvements in enterprise product content management, usability and supportability. Windchill software manages content and product data while steamlining processes to help companies deliver superior products. >>click here for more information on Windchill 9.1
Please contact us for pricing and information on any of the featured products.
What's New
dSPACE 2009 Product Catalogue
 Whether you're in an automotive, aerospace, electronic or academic environment, dSPACE has a product to suit your software and hardware needs. Internationally renowned, dSPACE is helping engineers from all industries speed up the development and implementation process of their products, cut costs, and increase accuracy - and of course performance! dSPACE's 2009 Product Catalogue is now available, please click here to download.
Maplesoft Unlocks Advanced Mathematics
An article by Beth Stackpole, Design News, May 2009.
"Both releases are designed to address the increased complexity design engineers face when developing next-generation products. When designing in the area of hybrid cars, for example, engineers are much more reliant on sophisticated mathematical equations, and the new releases are optimised to make modelling mathematics more accessible, interactive and visual, according to Tom Lee Maplesoft's chief evangelist." >> click here to read full article
Let's Get Social: The Changing Face of Collaboration in Engineering
An article by Leslie Gordan, Machine Design, May 2009 - an interview with Jim Heppelmann of PTC.
"To get what PTC calls a social product-development system, the company has layered its Windchill Product-Point software with the Microsoft stack. "SharePoint is both an application and a package that lets users develop new code," says Heppelmann." >> click here to read full article
Case studies
Renault Researcher Solves Noise and Vibration Problems Using Maple
 Dr. Jean-Louis Ligier, an R&D Manager at Renault, and his team were tasked to determine why engine components produce unwanted noise and vibrations when the engine slows or stops. Ligier chose Maple software to conduct a study on the issue. >> click here to read full case study
Nord-Micro Uses dSPACE for Maximum Safety
 In aircrafts with pressurised cabins, special valves and control algorithms have to regulate the air pressure with maximum reliability to meet safety
regulations. Since 2000, Nord-Micro has been using TargetLink, the production code generator, to develop cabin pressure controls for a wide range of aircraft types. >> click here to read full case study
Humax Co. Modernises its Product Data Management with Windchill from PTC
 Humax, a world leader in digital broadcasting device technology, has been designing products with PTC's Pro/Engineer 3D CAD software since 2001. They have also implemented PTC's InterCOMM for PCB (printed circuit board) analysis and ProductView for sharing designs across the Web, as well as Windchills automated Product Data Management System for their product development teams. >> click here to read full case study
Exploring Chaos and Dynamical Systems with Maplesoft
 Dr Stephen Lynch is a world class leader in the use of mathematical software in teaching and learning, and a renowned expert on dynamical systems and their applications. He teaches a range of courses at Manchester Metropolitan University in the UK, and has been nominated for a second time by MMU for a National Teaching Fellowship. Dr. Lynch has chosen to feature MapleSim in the second edition of his best-selling book, Dynamical Systems and Applications using Maple. >> click here to read full case study |
What's Hot
Save 10% in Ceanet's End of Financial Year SALE!
We're offering a 10% discount on selected products until the end of June, 2009. Discounted products include the newly released Maple 13 and MapleSim 2 as well as dSPACE, Mathcad 14, Pro|Engineer and IsoDraw. Please contact us for more information about our EOFY SALE!
MapleSim Connectivity Toolbox
With the MapleSim™ Connectivity Toolbox, you can enhance and extend your Simulink® models by integrating MapleSim's high-performance, multi-domain environment into your existing toolchain. >>click here to read more
Public Training Courses
Maplesoft Webinars
To learn more about the newly released Maple 13 and MapleSim 2, take advantage of our live webinars conducted by Maplesoft experts. >>click for a list of topics and webinar details
dSPACE Training
Ceanet offer several training modules for dSPACE products. We will cater to all levels of knowledge within a range of industries and acadamic institutions. >> click here for more information
Maple 13 Review - Felix Grant, Scientific Computing World
“I spend a majority of my mathematical time inside a completely different CAS environment, and have noticed that temporarily shifting into Maple gets easier with every release; with 13 it has become hardly any effort at all... Moving behind the interface, the core symbolic business continues to grow. Yet another swathe of improvements arrives in 13, including solve and integration enhancements which considerably increase both sophistication and reach.” >> click here to read full review
MapleSim Review - Felix Grant, Scientific Computing World
"At the heart of any such product is the question: how much easier is it to use, compared to previously employed methods? Working down through a series of guinea pigs, the youngest and least experienced who could still produce a functioning model with useful visualised output was an eight year old who in ten minutes demonstrated an impressive five jointed creation which she calls a 'wiggly waggly dancer thing'. As one who has sat through more undergraduate simulations of pendulum assemblies than I care to remember, I find that very impressive." >> click here to read full review
Dr Ghous' Tips & Tricks
Maplesoft:
1. You can specify commands to be run when a document or worksheet opens, similar to using the autoexecute setting. However, this startup code is hidden from users, creating a cleaner document.
2. The CurveFitting Package routines accept data in many different forms - as a list; Array, or Matrix of data points, or as two seperate lists; Arrays, or Vectors of x-values and y-values.
dSPACE:
1. In dSPACE systems, for each C-coded S-function you want to use with Real Time Interface (RTI), you must provide the MEX DLL file:
- Simulink® needs the MEX DLL file for simulation
- Real-Time Workshop® obtains the S-function's size information from the MEX DLL file. However, the MEX DLL file is not loaded onto the dSPACE hardware, but RTI compiles and links the S-function source code with the spe
2. During the prototyping in dSPACE the Real-Time Workshop hardcodes the value of the fixed-step size for certain blocks. However, if the fixed-step size was changed during real-time simulation, it would be necessary to adapt all other sample-times in the model because all sample-times must be integer multiples of the fixed-step size.
Mathcad 14:
1. In Mathcad and ProConcept the function Facet->Refine is usually used to add more facets into an object, however it can also be used to round corners because of its smoothing option:
- Select the object to be rounded, choose Facet->Refine and make sure that the Smooth option is selected. Use Facet->Decimate (25%) to remove unnecessary facets after refinement
2. In Mathcad 14 you can now append an image onto the Canvas workplane (in screen space) as an underlay for continued 2D sketching, or onto one of the 3D workplanes (Top / Front / Right) as an underlay for 3D modelling.
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