As you read in Alexandre's "ECF2010: first agora tour" blogpost, Noomeo was present at this major customer event, as a Dassault Systèmes' technological partner. We were delighted to welcome visitors at our booth, showing the value and capabilities of the OptiNum 3D scanner. In addition, Ludovic BRETHES, our CSO, held a conference in partnership with Dassault Aviation, about "Automatic control of complex assembly using 3D Digital Mockup and Scanning". As you can see, around 90 people were happy to discover this new and promising cooperation:

For the 3rd year, Noomeo participated at the Euromold trade show in Frankfurt (Germany), from December 1st to 4th, 2010. Once again, it’s a new success for OptiNum and our team!

The OptiNum 3D scanner "shines" and "flashes" again thanks to its innovative features, in front of the 60.000 visitors coming from all around the world. The rich diversity among the exhibitors present this year confirms us the importance of OptiNum's place in the industrial market. The different experts from Moldmaking and Tooling to Design and Application Development were mainly interested by the new features related to "edge measurement" and "point clouds regular sampling".

But... during the show, the elements were against us! We faced flights delays due to the snow which led to some luggage lost, set up the booth in the middle of the night, all of this in a cold and icy weather... We, living in Toulouse and its 20°C in early December, we are not used to that . Nevertheless, we found some energy and were in the starting blocks, ready to welcome you!

See you next year!

The Noomeo team

ECF 2010 is now going on and everyone's enjoying it. After this morning's plenary session including some customers' testimonies, guest are now invited to attend sessions, meet experts and Dassault Systèmes' partners in the Agora.

Concerning the PLM MarketPlace, we are located next to Microsoft's showroom where people can relax and have fun by trying the brand new Kinect! It's funny for us to see people jumping and laughing all day long :).

Time to relax with Microsoft Kinect...

Now, we'd like to offer you a virtual tour of the Agora. We've stopped by our partners' booths asking them to present their companies and solutions.

Noomeo: scanning the event 

I met with André Joly and Mathieu André from Noomeo at their booth. They were performing a nice demonstration of their product Optinum, a 3D-handheld scanner weighting only 1,8kg. Have a look at the video we’ve made with them to see how easy is it to use this powerful device.

Here are some additional news about Noomeo on this blog.

Rapid modeling with Forcefive
Next stop was at Forcefive's booth where I met Stefan, Christian and Ian. They were happy to show me live the capabilities of their software Fast Concept Modeller used for modeling in the automotive industry.

Find out more about Forcefive on the PLM MarketPlace blog.

I hope you enjoyed these first insights of ECF2010 with our partners exhibiting here. I'll come back tomorrow with some new great stuff to show you.

Talk to you soon...

Alexandre

Among others like the Parrot™ UAV and the fan/air amplifier of Dyson™, OptiNum was labelized for its original design.

Organized by the APCI (French agency for the promotion of industrial creation), the Design Observeur is a privileged meeting place for design since 1999, where excellence is rewarded with stars and labels for the best designs of the year.

A quick reminder for those who ignore it: the latest design of the OptiNum scanner was made, in a global and collaborative approach, in cooperation with the Design Studio team of Dassault Systèmes.

Thank you and congratulations to the Design Studio team of Dassault Systèmes! And don't miss the next step of development of the Noomeo products!

The Noomeo Team

You've got an idea, you've got a project, you've got talent but you don't have the means to make it come true? Then, you should read this blogpost until the end (like you did with all the previous ones ).

Last week, Dassault Systèmes hosted two major events at its Paris DS Campus: the SwYm Conference (formerly DEVCON) and the 2010 Partner Summit. Attendees had the opportunity to enjoy cool demos of 3DVIA Studio: the game Billions and a realistic 3D and interactive view of a city.

Guests were wowed by this experience thanks to two of our technology partners: Hewlett-Packard who brought its latest HP Z800 Workstation and AMD with its high-end ATI Eyefinity technology 3D graphics card.

Using ATI Eyefinity multi-display technology allows professionals as well as gamers to get the most out of the 3DVIA product range to have superior lifelike experiences. The 3D professional graphic cards are also fully certified for working with a variety of other Dassault Systèmes brands, including CATIA.

Watch Antoine Reymond (AMD Senior Strategic Alliance Manager) and Tom Schorr (Dassault Systèmes Technology Partner Programs Manager) demoing the power of 3DVIA Studio and ATI Eyefinity technology running together.

If you attended the SwYm Conference / Partner Summit, what are your impressions about the ATI Eyefinity 3D graphics card showcased there?

Anthony Rosendo, on behalf of the PLM MarketPlace Team

For product designers, simulation specialists and manufacturers, there is an ongoing desire to increase innovation and reduce design time and costly errors. To help address that need, the new ATI FirePro^™ desktop and mobile workstation professional graphics delivers ground-breaking features and performance for Dassault Systèmes’ CATIA users working with challenging design and engineering projects, while helping boost productivity and pushing designs to the limits throughout the manufacturing process.

For example, the ATI FirePro^™ V8800 features 1600 Stream Processing units that offer up to 2.6 TeraFLOPS of power with 147.2 GB/sec of memory bandwidth¹. Using ATI Eyefinity technology, ²CATIA professionals can increase their desktop real estate and workflow productivity to view large scale models and multiple applications by running up to four independent and simultaneous 30-inch displays from a single card³.

The ATI FirePro^TM product range includes:
- Entry Level: Workstation quality for balance price and performance
ATI FirePro^™ V4800 Professional Graphics Cards
- Mid-Range: Advanced features and outstanding performance for complex visualization
ATI FirePro^™ V5800 Professional Graphics Cards
- High End: 4 to 6 outputs and extreme performance for the most demanding visualization and compute jobs
ATI FirePro^™ V8800 Professional Graphics Cards or ATI FirePro^™ V7800 Professional
Graphics Cards

AMD works with Dassault Systèmes to tune, optimize, and enable the real-time manipulation of very large PLM data sets as well as realistic rendered models using ATI FirePro graphics, giving manufacturing companies the ability to accurately model and analyze product performance characteristics while limiting the number of physical prototypes.

Antoine Reymond is Senior Strategic Alliances Manager at AMD. His posting is his own opinion and may not represent AMD’s positions, strategies or opinions. Links to third party sites are provided for convenience and unless explicitly stated, AMD is not responsible for the contents of such links sites and no endorsement is implied.

Meet AMD!
Don't miss the opportunity to meet AMD and discover their tremendous ATI FirePro graphics cards and ATI Eyefinity technology: join the DS SwYm Conference!

¹Based on comparison of 1600 stream processors and 147.2GB/s memory bandwidth for ATI FirePro^™ V8800 vs. 240 CUDA processors and 102GB/s for NVIDIA QuadroFX 5800, as reported on http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_11761.html as of 3/16/10. As of 3/1/2010, ATI FirePro^™ V8800 has the highest number of stream processors of any graphics card.

²ATI Eyefinity technology can support up to 6 displays using a single enabled ATI FirePro^™ professional graphics card with Windows Vista or Windows 7 operating systems. The number of displays may vary by board design and you should confirm exact specifications with the applicable manufacturer before purchase. ATI Eyefinity technology works with games that support non-standard aspect ratios, which is required for panning across multiple displays. To enable more than two displays, additional panels with native DisplayPort^™ connectors, and/or certified DisplayPort^™ adapters to convert your monitor’s native input to your cards DisplayPort™ or Mini-DisplayPort^™ connector(s), are required. Driver version 8.66 (Catalyst 9.10) or above is also required.

³Based on support for up to four displays using ATI Eyefinity technology on ATI FirePro^™ V8800 graphics vs. two displays for typical prior single-card technology

See and do more, without necessarily spending more

ATI Eyefinity technology is a revolutionary graphics technology from AMD that takes the relationship between workstation and display to the next level.¹ This powerful new technology enables CATIA® and Dassault Systèmes users to run up to four simultaneous high-resolution displays with a single graphics card to create a hugely expanded visual workspace, and supports Dassault Systèmes’ strategy for immersive virtual reality.

For professionals in areas such as design, manufacturing, engineering, and technical publications, who work with large visual data sets, the ability to see full-screen 3D images and video across multiple displays working as a single desktop workspace is empowering. In addition, more space for multiple concurrent application windows greatly increases speed and productivity for your PLM workflow.

Until now, this high-performance, multi-screen capability has required additional expensive logic, but with ATI Eyefinity technology, all you need is a cost-effective, ATI Eyefinity-enabled ATI FirePro™ professional graphics card to complement your workstation. Furthermore, workstations can use multiple cards in concert to support even more screens to create truly massive on-screen workspace that’s budget friendly.

Tomorrow’s technology today

By leveraging the latest advances in graphical techniques, ATI Eyefinity technology brings immersive, panoramic personal computing to a wide audience of commercial and technical users and provides them with a stunning visual experience.

Key features include:

• AMD’s 10 bit video output technology supporting emerging display devices standards for dramatically improved depth of colour
• Innovative bezel management for seamless transition of moving images across display borders for a more realistic view
• Comprehensive support for the next generation of software standards including the sophisticated Microsoft DirectX® 11 interfaces and OpenGL 4.0

Ready to go out of the box

This groundbreaking technology is provided by a range of competitively priced, industry standard ATI FirePro™ professional graphics cards that are compatible with a wide range of existing graphics software applications out of the box. High resolution, multi-screen projects can now be accomplished on a wide range of PC workstations, from entry-level models through to high-end professional systems.

See ATI Eyefinity Technology in actions

Meet AMD!

Don't miss the opportunity to meet AMD and discover their tremendous ATI FirePro graphic cards: join the DS SwYm Conference!

The AMD Team

¹. ATI Eyefinity technology can support multiple displays using a single enabled ATI FirePro™ professional graphics card; the number of supported displays varies by card model. Microsoft® Windows® 7, Windows Vista®, or Linux® is required in order to support more than 2 displays. Depending on the card model, native DisplayPort™ connectors and/or certified DisplayPort™ active or passive adapters to convert your monitor’s native input to your card’s DisplayPort™ or Mini-DisplayPort™ connector(s) may be required. ATI Eyefinity technology is supported by the ATI FirePro™ V8800, ATI FirePro™ V7800, ATI FirePro™ V5800 and the ATI FirePro™ V4800 professional graphics cards. See www.amd.com/firepro for details.

Robert Jamieson is Marketing Manager EMEA, Workstation Graphics at AMD and Antoine Reymond is Senior Strategic Alliances Manager at AMD. Their postings are their own opinions and may not represent AMD’s positions, strategies or opinions. Links to third party sites are provided for convenience and unless explicitly stated, AMD is not responsible for the contents of such links sites and no endorsement is implied.

"See what you mean" is our motto here at Dassault Systèmes. This slogan refers to what our PLM solutions can do and how they can improve the user experience. But seeing is not just a matter of software. You can use the best software in the world (these can be found here ) but without a good 3D rendering, it is very difficult to “see what you mean”.

Advanced Micro Devices (aka AMD) is one of the key Dassault Systèmes' Technology Partners. Today, we are proud to announce that their ATI FirePro^TM professional graphics 3D cards family is referenced on the PLM MarketPlace. Users are now offered the possibility to ask for information about AMD's device and be connected to one of their people!

At Dassault Systèmes, we consider AMD's products as one of the key enablers to deliver the power of our software. Take a look at Fred's video in which he explains how are AMD 3D graphic cards provide accelerated performance:

Have a look at what these guys do, 3D rendering is simply amazing! Also, don't miss their new ATI FirePro^TM V8800 Professional Graphics, setting new standards.