Toronto, Ontario
April 4th 2008 -- Okino Computer Graphics, a leading provider and
pioneer of data translation solutions to the DCC/Animation and enterprise
Fortune 1000 markets, announced today that its currently shipping software
products have received the "Autodesk Inventor 2009 Certification".
Okino has been a registered Autodesk developer since 1995 and has been shipping
this completely robust and error free Autodesk Inventor conversion pipeline
since Inventor v5.
Certification by Autodesk, as per the "Inventor
Certified Applications Program" validates the overall completeness and
robustness of the Okino Inventor importer solution again. The certification is
made by Autodesk's Inventor support staff by performing a series of strict
tests for adherence and conformance to
the Inventor API, robustness, completeness and overall design quality.
The Autodesk Inventor solution from Okino allows
crack-free geometry, hierarchy (assembly data) and materials to be transferred
cleanly and robustly from native disk-based Autodesk Inventor files or from a
running copy of the Autodesk Inventor directly into any Okino
data-conversion-compliant program, such as PolyTrans, NuGraf, 3ds Max and Maya
(via native plug-ins), EON Reality software, MAXON Cinema-4D, Visual
Components 3DCreate, NGRAIN, and dozens of other packages as outlined below.
"Okino's
software products are industry standards used world wide by almost every major
corporation with robustness second to none," said Robert Lansdale, President & CEO of
Okino Computer Graphics, Inc. "Since 1988 our entire
company philosophy has been to provide the best of experiences for the import
of large CAD assemblies into Okino software where
the assembly data can be manipulated and viewed in real time, optimized,
composed, reduced, tagged with materials and rendered with ease. Our software
is also the industry standard for the converion and re-purposing of CAD data to
all major animation programs and downstream 3D file formats. Downstream
uses include product documentation and manual creation, animation and rendering
software, visual communication and review of data, and for accessing simpler
and easier to manipulate versions of the original CAD datasets. Okino's NuGraf and PolyTrans products provide the "swiss army
knife" of features, functionality and problem solving capabilities that
the Autodesk Inventor user had not had access to before."
Please
refer to this URL on the Okino WEB site for the Autodesk Inventor solutions
page:
http://www.okino.com/solutions/autodesk_inventor.htm
Major Benefits
of the Inventor Importer to Okino Customers
- Import complete assemblies (including assembly cuts and
patterned geometry, as well as multiple sub-assemblies) from a live
running copy of Autodesk Inventor, or from native Autodesk Inventor .iam
and .ipt files on disk (no copy of Autodesk Inventor required for this
latter feature).
- Autodesk Inventor assemblies can be
imported directly into Maya (using the PolyTrans-for-Maya native plug-in
system) or directly into 3ds Max (using the PolyTrans-for-MAX native
plug-in system). The native PolyTrans plug-in systems for 3ds Max and Maya
have been refined for over a decade, specifically for importing large CAD
assembly models.
- The
ability to quickly transfer assembly data into Okinos' NuGraf product for interactive scene manipulation, real-time OpenGL
shaded views and object manipulation, complex material assignment, 2D bitmap
and 3D procedural texture assignment, and rendering by Okino's stable, proven
and fast scanline or multi-threaded ray tracing renderers. Once inside NuGraf
(or PolyTrans), the data can be easily re-exported to any of the supported
Okino 3D file formats.
- Okino's "CAD Scene
and Hierarchy Optimization System" has been integrated right into the
Autodesk Inventor importer. This is most important when importing large CAD
models into 3ds Max, Maya, XSI or Lightwave. These animation packages can have
performance problems when the source CAD model is large, and/or has a large
number of individual parts (which is often the case with the BREP model
topology of data provided by Autodesk Inventor)
- Complete control over material parameter modification
on an automatic basis. Many CAD systems like Autodesk Inventor have basic
material parameters (like color, ambient + diffuse shading coefficients,
opacity, etc) but when they are transferred over to a rendering and
animation system they often look "too bright" or "highly
ambient". This can be expected and is quite normal. The material
tweak parameters easily allow such saturated shading values to be
automatically compensated.
Applicable WEB pages
The following are pertinent pages on the Okino WEB site
relating to this press release:
http://www.okino.com/solutions/autodesk_inventor.htm
= Okino solutions for Autodesk Inventor users
http://www.okino.com/conv/conv.htm =
PolyTrans home page
http://www.okino.com/nrs/nrs.htm =
NuGraf home page
http://www.okino.com/solutions/solidworks.htm
= Okino solutions for SolidWorks
users
http://www.okino.com/proe.htm =
Okino solutions for Pro/Engineer users
http://www.okino.com/conv/users.htm = List
of notable users
http://www.okino.com/testimon.htm =
Customer testimonials and product reviews
http://www.okino.com/press/releases.htm = Recent Okino press
releases
Availability
Okino products are available directly from Okino Computer
Graphics and through a number of Value Added Resellers. The Inventor CAD
importer is a component of the Okino "CAD/Pack" add-on license. For
more information or to download fully functional demonstration versions (with minor
limitations), please visit http://www.okino.com.
To locate an authorized VAR or for customer inquiries, email sales@okino.com or contact Okino at (905)
672-9328 or toll free at (888) 3D-OKINO (1-888-336-5466).
About Okino Computer Graphics
With development starting
January 28th 1988, Okino Computer Graphics, Inc. (Toronto, Canada)
is an industry leader + pioneer in the development and deployment of 3D data
re-purposing software that allows professional 3D software users to
intelligently and accurately convert/view/render/modify 3D data and assets
between most major CAD, DCC and VisSim software packages. Okino software is
used the world over by all major Fortune 1000 companies, 20 of the top 21
defense contractors, the top 15 automotive manufacturers, and tens of thousands
of production studios, 3D content creation, game development, CAD, engineering
and product design companies (as broken out in the Okino customer user list at
www.okino.com/conv/users.htm). For more
information about Okino, please visit www.okino.com.
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Attention editors. This document, as well as screen
snapshots and related documents for the press can be obtained electronically by
visiting http://www.okino.com/press/magpics.htm
PolyTrans and NuGraf are registered trademarks of Okino
Computer Graphics, Inc. Okino is a trademark of Okino Computer Graphics,
Inc. Autodesk and Inventor product
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or it subsidiaries in the United States and in other Countries. All other brand
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