Maplesoft is pleased to announce the founding of the North America Modelica Users’ Group, a tool-neutral organization founded to provide a forum for exchanging ideas, addressing modeling problems and promoting the North American perspective within the global Modelica Association.

VI-DriveSim Dynamic offers a revolutionary simulation platform to test full vehicle configurations

As part of a process to reform STI2D educational streams (Sciences and Technology of Industry and Sustainable Development), technical high schools in France are now required to use design and development software tools. The Académie de Nancy-Metz (1), a school board in Eastern France, has chosen MapleSim, the high-performance physical modeling and simulation tool from Maplesoft for mandatory use in all technical schools.

Enhancements include tools to speed up testing and experimentation process

Philipp Wallner, Global Technology Manager, Bernecker + Rainer Industrie and Johannes Friebe, MapleSim Europe Director, Maplesoft

Modelica^®-based expertise offered in modeling, simulation, and optimization of complex multidomain systems

New product easily integrates MapleSim models with VI-CarRealTime

Connection between Optimus and Maple/MapleSim now available

In the space industry, the design, building and testing of rover prototypes is extremely expensive and system testing typically does not occur until late in the design/testing process, leading to a long development time. In response to this, Dr. Amir Khajepour, Canada Research Chair in Mechatronic Vehicle Systems and Professor of Engineering in the Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering department at the University of Waterloo (UW), and his team worked with the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) and Maplesoft, to develop a Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) test platform for solar powered planetary rovers.

The recently released version of Maple comes with improved connectivity to major CAD systems. Maple 16 extends its support to Autodesk Inventor^® 2012, Solidworks^® 2012 and Siemens NX^® 8.