Computer-Aided Design Software

AR-CAD LLC

AR-CAD LLC provides motion simulation, engineering and graphics software for companies using CAD (computer-aided design) systems in their operations. Their software products can be stand-alone or work as add-ins or customizations in programs like AutoCAD, Inventor, Solidworks, Alibre or SpaceClaim.

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Goal

Find a solution that allows small teams to compete with larger players in creating engineering add-ins for high-tech CAD environments. This solution must be physics-based and allow users to visualize tolerances and the impact of physical forces.

Challenge

The technology must:

Maximize the abilities of a small team through increased programming productivity.
Integrate well within popular CAD programs such as AutoCAD, Inventor, Solidworks, Alibre and SpaceClaim.
Be easy to understand.
Facilitate software debugging.

Results With Cincom® VisualWorks®

Cincom VisualWorks allows companies to stay on equal footing with competitors that rely on more complex programming languages as the foundation for their CAD motion simulators.
Its clean syntax and pure object-oriented paradigm allow programmers to convert the problem domain into working code more easily and faithfully.
The debugger and inspectors encourage fearless exploration of the code to fix programming problems.