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Pro/ENGINEER Manikin Extension

Digital Human Modeling: Connecting people to products

In today’s global marketplace, product design engineers often face the challenging task of ensuring that their products can be manufactured, installed, used and serviced by people around the globe. Now you can connect your 3D product designs to their intended target audience using a new, integrated, easy-to use human modeling solution that saves time and cost by reducing expensive physical prototypes, and makes the process of performing ergonomics and human factors analyses easily accessible to all Pro/ENGINEER 3D CAD users.

Pro/ENGINEER Manikin Extension is a comprehensive digital human modeling solution that will help optimise your product for human-product interactions. Whether you are a mechanical engineer, CAD drafting professional, or ergonomics/human factor analysis specialist, this new module will accelerate your 3D CAD detailed design processes.

Benefits

• Easy to use and affordable, you can quickly insert, customise, and manipulate accurate, standards-based 3D human models
• Insert manikin models into your 3D CAD product model to optimise designs for a specific target audience
• Generate human reach envelopes and vision cones to understand what limitations may exist in your design, and gain a user’s perspective of your product by using the Fly To View capability
• Leverage time-saving libraries of global populations and manikin postures
• Ensure conformance with safety and ergonomic standards

For more information on advanced manikin analysis capabilities for Pro/ENGINEER, please visit the Pro/ENGINEER Manikin Analysis Extension product page.

* The Pro/ENGINEER Manikin Extension is expected to be available in December 2008. The timing of any product release, including any features or functionality, is subject to change at PTC's discretion

Additionally, in February 2009, basic manikin capabilities that enable users to insert a pre-defined manikin into a CAD model and easily manipulate the posture to gain an understanding of how a human would fit or interact with a proposed design will be included in all Pro/ENGINEER packages at no additional charge for those customers on the latest maintenance release of Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 4.0.