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Prometech joins SOLIDWORKS Partner Program for its Advanced CFD Software Particleworks

4/8/2019

Prometech Software, Inc. (President: Toshimitsu Fujisawa, Head Office: Tokyo, hereinafter Prometech) has joined the SOLIDWORKS Partner Program.

Particleworks has long been established as a leading CFD software in use by companies to enable design engineers to easily and effectively perform trial & error design studies. Particleworks for SOLIDWORKS is a frontloading CFD Software that allows the user to perform all operations from within the SOLIDWORKS environment. It includes functions needed for fluid phenomena that are highly demanded at design sites but that are difficult to reproduce with conventional grid methods (e.g. splashing, mixing and spraying).

Prometech released Particleworks for SOLIDWORKS in Jan 2019. This is a newly developed entry version of the fluid simulation software Particleworks as an add-in tool for SOLIDWORKS®, based on Prometech's particle method (Moving Particle Simulation).

“By becoming accredited as a SOLIDWORKS® Partner Program, we will strengthen our collaboration with partner companies and continuously provide customers with higher quality functions and services.” Says Prometech President Toshimitsu Fujisawa.

Particleworks for SOLIDWORKS user’s voice:
Nobuhiro Yuhashi, Ph.D., Research & Development Dep., Research & Development Sec., Maruyama Mfg. Co., Inc.

Our company uses SOLIDWORKS as a designing tool. The engineers that mainly work on designs also use SOLIDWORKS Simulation to perform structural analyses. We believe it be very valuable for the CAD-tool to be an all-in-one environment from the model designing stage to the simulation post-processing.

We have been using other CAE software for fluid simulation purposes. However, conventional mesh-based methods are not very efficient for the calculation of complex fluid flow and free-surface flow such as liquid surfaces and sprays. We considered implementing Particleworks for SOLIDWORKS because of its meshfree method and its calculation effectiveness when it comes to free surface flows and large deformations. Further, we regarded its user-friendliness as valuable, because we intend to have both experienced and beginning designers to use CFD for design studies and as a verification tool in the future.

Conclusively, we were very pleased with Particleworks for SOLIDWORKS because of how easily unexperienced designers could operate it. It also was very appealing to us because of it being add-in Simulation Software for the SOLIDWORKS CAD-tool. Performing parameter studies was nearly effortless thanks to the ability to perform analyses directly from the designed 3D data. Furthermore, being able to observe the simulation and the CAD data on the same screen and at the same time, allowed us to continuously reflect on and improve our product design.

Designers are most familiar with their CAD environment. They did not feel any discomfort when using Particleworks for SOLIDWORKS thanks to its full integration in the CAD environment. Therefore we found it suitable to implement at our design site.

We hope to see new simulation capabilities including coupled field analysis with other CAE software tools, e.g. liquid flow and structural coupling, in terms of being add-in software for SOLIDWORKS.

Thank you.

Prometech Support Service Unavailable during National Holidays

4/5/2019

Dear Customers,

Thank you for your continued support.

Our User Support Service will be unavailable from Saturday April 27 to Monday May 6, 2019 due to a sequence of national holidays.

We will reply to all inquiries on Tuesday May 7, 2019. We apologize sincerely for any inconvenience we may cause.

Notification of Transfer of Computer Graphics Research Institute「DWANGO CG Research」

4/1/2019

Prometech Software, Inc (CEO: Toshimitsu Fujisawa, headquarters Tokyo Bunkyo Ward, hereafter Prometech) proudly announces that the “DWANGO CG Research” department of DWANGO Co., Ltd (CEO: Takeshi Natsuno, headquarters Tokyo Chuo Ward) will be transferred to Prometech and rebranded as “Prometech CG Research”. Simultaneously Prometech will continue to support the research activities of Tomoyuki Nishita, world leading Computer Graphics (CG) researcher and professor emeritus of The University of Tokyo.

■ About Prometech CG Research

Tomoyuki Nishita is the only researcher in Asia to have received the Steven A. Coons Award, often referred to as the Nobel Prize for Computer Graphics. Nishita developed the Radiosity Method, a core technology that is now used in all CG-based works and video games today. Reflecting on his broad and rich experience, he actively continues his research today. Through its vision of Computational Reality – the creation of a better society through computational science -, Prometech has continuously develops new technologies with an emphasis on Simulation in the fields of CG and AI, i.a. Professor Emeritus Nishita of The University of Tokyo shall lead the “Prometech CG Research” department and actively research in the field of Computer Graphics and promote and develop new contents and services.
Based on our rich experience, we will continue our energetic research activities.

About Prometech CG Research

Name of department: Prometech CG Research
Head of department: Tomoyuki Nishita
Date of establishment: April 1, 2019.
Fields of research: Computer Graphics, visualization and illumination simulations of natural objects & phenomena, i.a.
Address: Hongo Dai-ichi bldg. 8F, 34-3, Hongo 3-Chome, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo.
Website: https://www.prometech.co.jp/cgresearch.html

Tomoyuki Nishita’s Career

Tomoyuki Nishita (born in 1949 in Hiroshima, Japan) is a professor at The University of Tokyo since 1998 (became professor emeritus after his retirement in March 2013). He started his research in the field of Computer graphics in 1970. His research includes hidden line and surface removal, and soft shadows. He developed the Radiosity Method, a method which realistically calculates light reflections through interreflections. Nishita received the Steven A. Coons Award from the ACM SIGGRAPH in 2005, and the CG-Japan Award from NICOGRAPH in 2006. In 2006, the Institute of Image Electronics Engineers of Japan established the Nishita Award, which is given to the authors of excellent CG-related papers. He has been advising Prometech on business operations as a technical adviser since 2005.