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We supply full-featured 3D design applications, responsive on-demand support, and a rich set of training materials at a value unmatched by comparable solutions on the market.

Our goal is to provide 3D CAD based on a company's need – not on its budget.

Alibre offers businesses of all sizes in every major industrialized country a range of 3D CAD software solutions for design and manufacturing challenges. Our customers build everything from simple fixtures and tooling to extremely complex products in industries such as aerospace, automotive, and industrial machinery.

Our web site contains a wealth of information to help you assess how Alibre Design fits your particular situation. We encourage you to tour the following pages to learn more about our solutions and find out how others are benefiting from the best value in 3D CAD.

 

 

 

 

 

 


We supply full-featured 3D design applications, responsive on-demand support, and a rich set of training materials at a value unmatched by comparable solutions on the market.

Our goal is to provide 3D CAD based on a company's need – not on its budget.

Alibre offers businesses of all sizes in every major industrialized country a range of 3D CAD software solutions for design and manufacturing challenges. Our customers build everything from simple fixtures and tooling to extremely complex products in industries such as aerospace, automotive, and industrial machinery.

Our web site contains a wealth of information to help you assess how Alibre Design fits your particular situation. We encourage you to tour the following pages to learn more about our solutions and find out how others are benefiting from the best value in 3D CAD.

Software for professional mechanical design, engineering and manufacturing applications.

Best for beginners or hobbyists
looking to begin using 3D CAD -
all at no charge.

3D design software crafted for professional woodworkers.

Products:

•  Alibre Design Standard

•  Alibre Design Professional

•  Alibre Design Expert  

Products:

•  Alibre Design Xpress

 

Products:

•  Alibre Design Workshop

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•  Features

•  Universal Mechanism http://www.umlab.ru

Click to see UM Input program screenshotProgram package "Universal Mechanism" is intended for simulation of kinematics and dynamics of planar and spatial mechanical systems.

The program is oriented to practical engineers, students and teachers; in other words it is oriented to all people who are involved in problems of dynamics of machines and mechanisms. Mechanical systems are described by means of representing them as systems of rigid bodies connected by various kinematical pairs and force elements, so-called multibody systems.

Online animation of motion and plots of dynamical performances are available during simulation. There are lots of measurable dynamical performances of mechanical systems: linear and angular coordinates, velocities and accelerations, active forces and moments, reaction forces etc.

Click to see UM Simulation program screenshotUM has an advanced postprocessor, which includes linear analysis , statistics, optimization , and export of results. UM is a useful tool for the computer-aided modeling of multibody and hybrid systems of various types: complex aerospace structures, robots, railway vehicles, automobiles, cable systems, etc. It gives an opportunity to solve both the direct and inverse kinematic, dynamic, and control problems. There are special prices of UM for scientific and educational purposes.

UM includes kernel and number of additional task-oriented modules: UM Automotive , UM Loco , UM CAD Interfaces , UM FEM , UM Optimization , UM Control and others.

Our engineers can help you to carry out dynamic research of your mechanical systems.

UM demo version and user's guide are available for downloading .

Using UM for modeling of mechanical systems, main features of the program package, its modules and lots of animations are presented here (PowerPoint presentation, zip archive, 83 Mb).

Body properties

- Body of any shape
- Automatic calculation of inertia parameters
- Import inertia properties of bodies from Unigraphics NX , Pro/ENGINEER, SolidWorks, Autodesk Inventor, KOMPAS-3D.

Joints and constraints

- Rotational, translation, cylindrical, gimbal, general, quaternion joints
- Massless rod
- Import of the kinematic schemes from CAD programs.

Forces

- General, bipolar, contact, special and other forces

Graphical elements

- Polyhedron, ellipse, box, spiral, ellipsoid, cone, parametrical, profile
- Import from ASC and 3DS files
- Import from Unigraphics NX, Pro/ENGINEER, SolidWorks, Autodesk Inventor, KOMPAS-3D.

Measurable parameters

- Linear and angular coordinates, velocities and accelerations
- Active forces and moments
- Reaction forces
- Other user's parameters

Simulation control

- Run, pause, reset, stop the simulation any time
- Control the accuracy of the simulation

User's modules definition

Supporting user's modules under:
- MS Visual C++ 5.0-6.0;
- Borland C++ Builder 5.0;
- Borland Delphi 4.0-6.0

Visualization

- Object animation
- Trajectories
- Velocities, accelerations, forces, moments as vectors
- All measurable parameters as plots

Import

- 3DS files
- ASC files
- SolidWorks , Autodesk Inventor (graphics, inertia properties and kinematics)
- Matlab/Simulink models

Export

- BMP files
- Animated GIF files
- AVI files
- Measurable parameters to formatted text files
- Tables and graphs to MS Word and MS Excel

Product line

 

Laboratory of computational mechanics develops and distribute the following list of products:

Universal Mechanism
Universal Mechanism Lite
Universal Mechanism Express for KOMPAS-3D

 

Universal Mechanism

 

Program package "Universal Mechanism" is a basic product of the Laboratory. It is a specialized CAE application that is intended for simulation of kinematics and dynamics of mechanical systems such as transport machines, road vehicles, railway vehicles, space structures, robots and manipulator, defense systems. "Universal Mechanism" supposes that its user has basic knowledge in fields of theoretical mechanics, machine and mechanism theory and mathematical modeling. Normally it is used by research engineers within research departments and offices.

Universal Mechanism consists of the core - UM Base - and a number of additional modules , that widen functionality of the core.

You can download demo version of Universal Mechanism and UM User's Manual here .

 

Universal Mechanism Lite

 

Light version of base module of Universal Mechanism, which is oriented to wide range of users. Functionality of UM Lite is limited by the ( UM Base ) and is not widen with the help of additional modules. UM Lite has the following main differences from full version: considerable restrictions on force element types, disabled programming in UM environment, simplified program interface. More...

Applications for CAD programs are developed on the basis of UM Lite, in particular the dynamic library for KOMPAS-3D. Since the program significantly simplified it does not need from the user any special knowledge and operates with well-known for any design engineer terms and ideas.

 

Universal Mechanism Express for KOMPAS-3D

 

Universal Mechanism Express is a library for KOMPAS-3D and is based on Universal Mechanism Lite functinality. Universal Mechanism Express occupies a special place in the software product line of the laboratory. On the one hand, the concept of the program is the reflection of general principles laid in UM. On the other hand, functional capabilities of the dynamic library are restricted considering the specific character of this software. First of all, it is concerned the set of force elements and programming in the program environment. The library is intended for using by design engineers for express analysis of designed mechanisms in their everyday work. It does not need from the user any special knowledge and operates with well-known for any design engineer terms and ideas.

 

 

 
 

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