LinuxPR: Open CASCADE Continues Innovative Path And Builds Performance

"Following the third publication of source code on February 28th, the Open CASCADE Department of Matra Datavision has continued development of the Open CASCADE modeling components and today announced that version 3.0, certified from the Open Source version, will be available in April 2000. Open CASCADE now includes standard IGES and STEP data exchange capabilities, thereby offering a complete range of functions for the programming and integration of graphical scientific and technical applications."

"Open CASCADE has been available on Linux platforms since December 20, 1999, and was the first modeling kernel available on Linux in the domain of CAD/CAM/CAE. In April, version 3.0 also runs on SUN Solaris, IBM/AIX, SGI and Windows NT platforms. This version will be available as a CD-ROM or can be downloaded from the http://www.opencascade.com site."

"The Open CASCADE core team has been organized under the leadership of Michel Rochon and continues to accept new members. As of today, the team includes participants from Canada, France and Russia: Guillaume Alleon, Aerospatiale Matra, François Lauzon, DBM Reflex, Prof. Kozyref, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Nizhny-Novgorod, Yves Marechal, Electro-technical Laboratory of Grenoble, Alain Nobre of Principia, Philippe Rucho of Bureau Veritas, and Dominique Colombani of the CEDRAT."

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