Feb 26 - CONCENTRIC to Sell TechViz in Australia, New Zealand

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CONCENTRIC to Sell TechViz in Australia, New Zealand

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SYDNEY, Australia, Feb 26, 2009 – CONCENTRIC Asia Pacific P/L, the leading provider of design-engineering-manufacturing-visualization-simulation (virtual reality) technology solutions and knowledge based services to the Australia-New Zealand region, has announced the release of TechViz solutions to the local market.

TechViz is a Paris based company founded in 2004 which has developed solutions that enable generic 3D software applications to generate high definition interactive content including visualization, human body tracking and virtual assembly.

The trio of TechViz XL, TechViz Turbo and TechViz Immersive range from entry-level to high powered PC-cluster environments using multiple projectors.

“TechViz is pleased to collaborate with CONCENTRIC Asia Pacific P/L. CONCENTRIC Asia Pacific, the leading provider of design-engineering-manufacturing-visualization-simulation technology solutions, represents a wonderful opportunity for TechViz which offer a real know how on its market ”, says TechViz CTO, Alexis Vartanian.

“The TechViz solutions provide our customers with even more seamless tools which will enable them to cost-effectively introduce interactive and immersive three dimensional environments to areas such as product design and production processes”, says CONCENTRIC Managing Director, Michael Myers. “Companies like Audi, BMW, Dassault Aviation, Honda, Massey Ferguson, Magna Steyr, PSA Peugeot Citreon, Porsche, Renault, Subaru and Toyota are already using these solutions to reduce their design and production overheads and deliver better products to market a lot faster. We want to provide that same competitive advantage to businesses here.”

Other overseas industries relying on Techviz include architecture, construction, aeronautics, oil and gas, manufacturing and research.

David Simper, Manager of the CONCENTRIC Simulation Services Group, adds, “TechViz perfectly complements our existing solutions, such as 3DVia Virtools, as a means of making interactive and immersive digital content accessible to everyone along the value chain – from design to manufacture. Now, with Techviz, designers and engineers can quickly and easily transfer their 3D CAD files to high definition Virtual Reality Centres, caves or visualization walls and interact with them.”

With TechViz XL, TechViz Turbo and TechViz Immersive there is no need for data conversion. They are all certified to work with more than 60 of the world’s most used products including Autodesk 3DStudio Max, Autodesk Alias Studio, Autodesk Alias Motionbuilder, Autodesk Autocad, Autodesk Inventor, Autodesk Maya, Autodesk Revit, Autodesk Showcase, AVEVA Vintage, Acrobat Reader, Bentley Microstation, Dassault Systemes Abaqus-CATIA-DELMIA-ENOVIA-Virtolls-3DXML Player, Deep Exploration, Fluent, Firefox, Google Sketchup, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Office (Powerpoint/Excel/Word), Photoshop, PTC ProE WildFire, PTC ProductView, Rhino 3D, Right Hemisphere, UGS Teamcenter, UGS Unigraphics NX, SolidEdge and SolidWorks.

TechViz XL is a presentation solution for multi-displays using active and passive stereo, body-head-finger tracking. Specifically for high end virtual reality systems or high resolution displays.

TechViz Turbo is a graphic super calculator based on PC clusters for working on very large data (C.A.O Models) on a workstation 3D application. It has been shown to dramatically increase processing speed up to 25 times faster (eg. with CATIA).

TechViz Immersive is a combined hardware and software package for virtual reality first-timers.

Features include:

Distribute and accelerate the display of 3D applications on commodity PC’s
Work directly and immediately in existing 3D software without losing data and performance
Work on 3D complex models
Optimise 3D Display performance
Turn any 3D software into a cluster application
Create immersive visualization and virtual reality of a 3D model on a visualization wall •
No data conversion necessary
No specific tool rerquired, use the usual 3D application
High resolution rendering

For instance, TechViz solutions enable the validation of ergonomic factors in working tasks by displaying collisions between the human body and the 3D model (with Human Body Tracking equipment)…inspection of a virtual assembly via interactively moving parts of the model, seeing collisions, recording motion paths for further studies, validating mounting tasks and maintenance operations, and developing content for immersive training programs…allow multiple CAD reviews by merging multiple 3D scenes in real time from different 3D applications in order to see them in a single view…create animated content for training or debriefs by video recording actions and model navigation into a movie. To mention a few.

For more information on TechViz, visit www.concentric.com.au/solutions.

About CONCENTRIC

CONCENTRIC Asia Pacific P/L is the leading provider of design-engineering-manufacturing-visualization-simulation (virtual reality) technology solutions and knowledge based services to the Australia-New Zealand region. A privately owned Australian company founded over 25 years ago, it has many global strategic alliances including CGTech, Dassault Systems, Dyadem, DCS, Gehry Technologies, HP, IBM, ITI TranscenData, LMS International, Right Hemisphere, Structural Research & Analysis Corporation, Techviz. CONCENTRIC also has a worldwide technology and knowledge-sharing alliance with Argentum Engineering (Pune, Delhi, San Francisco) and Digital Product Solutions (Paris) through which expertise is delivered around the globe.

Company is able to create for customers a seamless 3D digital interactive environment involving CAD/CAM/CAE, Product Lifecycle Management, Document-Data Management, Product Realization, virtual manufacturing, animation, visualization and simulation. It complements this growing portfolio with a highly trained team of engineers, technicians and content creators in the CONCENTRIC Engineering Services and CONCENTRIC Simulation Services Group. And complement all of this with rapid manufacturing and prototyping-model making provided by subsidiary business group, ENVIZAGE.

It features the most comprehensive Product Realization Centre in this region. CONCENTRIC is a long-term Technology Partner to a wide diversity of industries including automotive, aerospace, shipbuilding, defense, manufacturing, transportation, heavy engineering, industrial design, consumer products, video games, movie animation, packaging, and architecture. From OEM's to micro enterprises. Offices are located in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane, Perth.

CONCENTRIC is a proud National Founding Partner of the not-for-profit organisation, Re-Engineering Australia Foundation, which is helping young Australians become enthused about careers in engineering and manufacturing and taking on the world with innovative and technical skills.

For more information, visit www.concentric.com.au.

About TechViz

TechViz is the world’s only product in the market to work with so many desktop applications for immersive, networked and collaborative visualization systems. TechViz combines the power for the latest generation workstation 3D graphic cards and specific software to offer graphics and display systems with unequalled performance and functionalities. With existing desktop 3D software applications on PC workstations, TechViz products can open doors of new functionalities for your regular applications. Headquartered in Paris, France, TechViz’s customers include leading government laboratories, military research programs, energy companies, manufacturing, and other users of visualization technology.

For more information, visit www.techviz.net.

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