D-Cubed

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D-Cubed Components are a collection of geometric software component libraries developed and licensed as commercial products. They were originally written by D-Cubed Limited, which was a privately held company founded in 1989 in Cambridge, England, by John Owen. D-Cubed Limited was acquired by UGS Corp. on June 30, 2004, which in turn was acquired by Siemens AG on May 7, 2007, becoming known as Siemens PLM Software on October 1, 2007.

There are six D-Cubed Components, predominantly used to support the development of Computer-Aided Design (CAD), Computer-Aided Manufacturing (CAM) and Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE) applications, including NX and Solid Edge from Siemens PLM Software. The functionality supported includes geometric constraint solving, variational design, parametric design, motion simulation, collision detection and clearance computations, and hidden line removal.

[edit] References

• Siemens PLM Software (2004). UGS Completes Acquisition of D-Cubed. Retrieved on April 17, 2008.
• Siemens PLM Software (2007). Siemens Closes Acquisition of UGS. Retrieved on April 17, 2008.

[edit] External links

• Official D-Cubed Components web page