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I am pretty sure I-deas is NOT running a parasolid kernel. It would be a huge kernel change. I believe there are no plans to make I-deas native parasolid. The I-deas ---> UG merge should yield a ugnx product with parasolid kernel. Ug will pick up some of i-deas positive traits, and I-deas will...

In the automotive biz, the normal automotive engineer is called a program manager or program engineer. Most of their time is taken up coordinating product development stages, using gant charts, etc... Designers still come up with initial designs, send it to FEA and use FEA feedback to tweak the...

If the part is on your desktop then it resides in DOCUMENTS AND SETTINGS/DESKTOP folder whjich definately has spaces. put your item right on the c:\ drive and you will be all set

There are two good ways to delete the history of the part without affecting the origional part history. 1. Have the part on the screen. Extract the entire part (you may way to filter for part)using the extract icon R1C3. Put away your master part. Delete the history of your extracted...

I don't have public tolerances to post. At the end of the day, the tolerances will have to be tight enough not to show up on milled tool steel. The 4th derivative, rate of curvature change, is only supported on Catia ACA package as far as I know. It may be eventually used as a diagnosis tool...

If you are interested in FE data, why can't you export in nastran, abaqus or ansys or other FE format, and read back in in I-DEAS 8? Maybe that would work for you. AutomotiveDesigner

Heres the the best mathematical analysis I can give you. Generally in automotive, Class A surface must be continous, tangent continous and then curvature continous to a certain designated tolerance given by a department. Continous means a two surface edges must mate within a certain tolerance...