Adept Scientific has announced the release of MapleSim, the new high-performance multi-domain modelling and simulation tool from Maplesoft.
After months of intense pilot testing and feedback from approximately 1,500 organisations spanning 85 countries, MapleSim is now ready for engineers eager to dramatically shorten their product development cycle and provide their companies with a competitive advantage.
With the cutting edge physical modelling techniques in MapleSim, the time and cost spent creating models is drastically reduced. Users can simply create the system diagram on the screen, in the same way they would draw it on paper. The model equations are then generated automatically.
MapleSim applies symbolic pre-processing techniques to these model equations, creating simplified and highly efficient models. Code generated from these simplified models can be exported to real-time and other applications. Because of the symbolic pre-processing, this code runs ten to 100 times faster for complex models.
MapleSim contains powerful tools for model design and analysis, including dynamic analysis, control design and optimisation. MapleSim even allows users to easily create custom components and live design documentation.
“There's little point in building a skyscraper on a bad foundation, which is why it is so important to me that MapleSim’s maths engine is the best in the world,” says Edward Melcarek, director of research and development at Sono-Dyne Inc and a pilot user of MapleSim. “The palettes and menu are very well thought out and I especially like the drag-and-drop modules that can be calibrated at one's preferences. MapleSim is the most user-friendly maths modelling software and I can see it becoming a ‘must have’ tool among engineers, scientists and designers.”
MapleSim brings together the world’s most advanced symbolic computing engine and traditional numeric solvers to supercharge the simulation and modelling process. With the Maple computation engine at its core to provide the automatic generation of equations, model simplification and analysis tools, savings in the design process can range from weeks to months.
“It has been exciting to see the significant progress in the development of MapleSim,” says Jim Cooper, CEO of Maplesoft. “With many passionate users giving us constructive feedback, we have turned MapleSim into a truly user-driven product. Thanks to users who took the opportunity to interact with the Maplesoft product development team and influence the next generation of modelling and simulation tools, we have a product that is truly outstanding.”