What happened to ADAMS/Engine

[jalexiou]

Last year MSC announced they are selling the ADAMS/Engine module to FEV so that they become world leader in Multibody Dynamics.. etc

Press release from FEV

Since then, I am unable to see anything in FEV's website where they sell, support or develop the ADAMS/Engine software. It is sad that we pay so much money for a world class software and we get an evolutionaly dead end. Also it looks like something nobody has improved upon since the 80's.

Is anyone else as frustrated as I am? Do others have mostly positive or negative experiences with ADAMS/Engine?

Note that those who don't know ADAMS/View and ADAMS/Engine are almost separate pieces of software as they operate differently and the UI experience is much more archaic (if possible).

John Alexiou
Rigid Body Dynamics - ADAMS/Mechanisms
Transmission Line - SAG10/Vibrec
Programming - c#/vb.net/c++/pascal

 

[jslat]

I think FEV renamed ADAMS/Engine to Virtual Engine.
See

http://www.fev.com/content/public/default.aspx?id=1544

But FEV does not distribute this themselves, that is handled by VI-grade.

http://www.vi-grade.com/index.php?pagid=fev_vengine_updates_patches

Jesper Slattengren

http://www.prattmiller.com