Component-Based development for CAE with Tech Soft 3D’s toolkits
As markets mature and players consolidate into larger entities, the way that products are built transitions from a more integrated approach – “let’s do it all” – to something more targeted – “let’s focus [...]
Floating Offshore Wind Energy production : The next big move
Background Norway has committed to cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 50-55 percent by 2030 and by at least 80 percent by 2050. If these goals are to be reached, we require a transition [...]
Hard work is “suite”: full release of Ceetron product suite. Again.
(11.03.21) Sophia Antipolis, France Ceetron is like a beehive… everyone is busy accomplishing one precise task that will benefit the entire community and more generally, those who collect the honey – you ! As [...]
“Wow, this is sooo cool! “ … “Awesome!” … “Absolutely love it!”
(15.01.21) Tønsberg, Norway This is the usual response we get when we demo VR in the CAE space. For a brief moment the serious, stiff, smart-dressed, important-looking businessman/woman forgets all about the real world [...]
Baffling Release Awe: Ceetron provides new versions of 5 (yes, five !) of its products at the same time !
(18.12.20) Sophia Antipolis, France Just when you thought you had seen it all, Ceetron's development team takes on the challenge of an unprecedented synchronized release of ... FIVE products ! For the last time [...]
Ceetron is hard “work”
Most software developers I know are or have been gamers, and I am no exception. The number of hours I’ve spent hammering the keyboard trying to beat the next Foe on the list is... [...]
Remote CAE Visual Workflows: sharing and collaborating more for less
As we take our breath seeing a second wave cover the planet, the opportunities to engage in meaningful changes are popping up everywhere. In a previous blog, I discussed the benefits of telecommuting and [...]
Announcement. Cheese AND dessert: Tech Soft 3D acquires Ceetron AS
(15.10.2020) Sophia Antipolis, France Gastronomical considerations Bringing together simulation and design software in unified environments has been an ongoing process for decades. On one hand, larger CAD-cored organizations have added simulation capabilities to their [...]
Release: doubling up… again. Ceetron releases Cloud Components 3.5.0 and Desktop Components 3.2.0
(01.10.20) Sophia Antipolis, France Baseball postseason, the NBA final and the French tennis open at Roland Garros are all under way in an unprecedented collision of sporting events. Fans will get their share of [...]
Release: It’s all in a day’s work… Ceetron releases Cloud Components 3.4.0
(16.07.2020) Sophia Antipolis, France Ceetron Cloud Components (aka C3) 3.4.0 is up for grabs. Our TypeScript construction workers never stop, adding CAE cloud-based visualization features day after day after day… I need to have [...]
The next normal for remote CAE visualization: WebGL is the key.
Lessons from a crisis: telecommuting has a bright future, if.. “New normal” might on the long run become a worthy candidate to “Buzzword of the Year”. After months of heavily disrupted “normal” life, populations, [...]
Release: Back to office !… Ceetron releases Cloud Components 3.3.0
(11.06.2020) Sophia Antipolis, France They did it ! Our cloud developers in Tønsberg, Norway are back in the office and keeping up the good coding done at home. Here in France, back-to-office will take [...]
Release: Wile E. Coyote beware – Our openFOAM reader is faster than RoadRunner… Beep ! Beep ! Ceetron releases Data Provider Plugins 1.2.0
(04.06.2020) Antibes, France We can’t help it. At Ceetron, as soon as we have an SDK, we use it to build our own applications… something like the laws of Nature. This time it’s about [...]
Release: You can’t beat home-made – and that applies to software too … Ceetron releases Cloud Components 3.2.0
(07.05.2020) Antibes, France There is of course a lot to say about the sharp turn our lives have taken over the past months. Some “very, very terrible” things have happened, and even if our [...]
Ceetron Roadmap 2020 : it’s all a matter of good taste
(09.03.2020) Sophia Antipolis, France Those of you who follow us on social networks know that a few weeks ago, all of Ceetron gathered in Copenhagen for our 2020 strategy kick-off meeting. We strongly believe [...]
Release: About the ups and downs of viral posts. Ceetron releases Cloud Components 3.1.0 AND Desktop Components 3.1.0
(02.03.2020) Sophia Antipolis, France Urgh ! My catch paragraph just went down the drain. A few months ago, “viral” was a positive way to qualify an uncontrollably popular post on social media – or [...]
The EU funded MARIANA lung cancer treatment project has moved into its final year
(14.01.2020) Six leading European universities / research organizations, medtech companies, and software companies in 2017 formed a R&D consortium named MARIANA to create the most advanced image-guided flexible catheter platform on the market with [...]
Release: formal proof that Santa is Norwegian. Ceetron releases Analyzer Desktop 1.3.0 AND Cloud Components 3.0.0
(23.12.2019) Norway takes pride in its trolls. They even name companies after them – who doesn’t remember good old Trolltech and its first Qt releases. Not to mention the Pinnochio-faced figurines you will find [...]
Insight: Back from Kassel and the CADFEM ANSYS Simulation Conference 2019
(22.10.2019) Together with Tor Helge Hansen, Ceetron's CEO and Frode Brandt, Senior Software Developer, I have just spent some days with Dr.-Ing. Günter Müller and his colleagues in CADFEM, as participants at the 37th [...]
Release: Ceetron Cloud Components 2.14.0 is out
(21.10.19) Moving forward: that’s the only direction Ceetron Cloud Components (C3) is going, inspired by the needs of our growing number of cloud-based customers. This release includes a number of optimizations and bug fixes. I [...]
Event: Ceetron and our Italian partner SmartCAE at International CAE Conference, Vicenza, October 28-29
(18.10.2019) Italy is a wonderful country, for gourmands / gourmets, for fashion connaisseurs, and for manufacturing buffs. Which is why it is an El Dorado for innovative CAE thinking, and which is why Ceetron [...]
Release: Ceetron Desktop Components (aka 3D Components) 3.0 is out
(17.09.2019) Finally. Ceetron Desktop Components 3.0 was released last night. Desktop Components is on one hand a renaming of Ceetron 3D Components, on the other hand a strong message to the market that Ceetrons [...]
Invitation: Meet us at CADFEM 2019 in Kassel, Germany on October 16-17
(12.09.2019) This year's CADFEM ANSYS conference will take place in the Kongresspalais in Kassel, Germany on October 16-17. We will of course be there and we invite current and prospective customers (and anyone with [...]
Release: Ceetron Cloud Components 2.12.0 is out
(22.07.19) Improved result calculators support and now out of preview and a supported feature. Bulk calculation of parts and cutting planes, with region support. Improved element query support. Plus updated file readers and added support for ANSYS [...]
Back from NAFEMS World Congress 2019 in Quebec: What did we learn?
(21.06.19) "Vive le Québec libre!" Such were President Charles de Gaulle's famous words on July 24, 1967. They are reminders of a time when independence for Quebec was on the mainstream political agenda. In [...]
Release: Ceetron Cloud Components 2.11.0 is out
(12.06.19) I am pleased to inform current and prospective Cloud Components licensees that 2.11.0 was released today and can be downloaded from our download pages. The release contains a number of functional enhancements and [...]
Event: Time to prepare for NAFEMS World Congress in Quebec on June 17-20
(26.05.19) NAFEMS World Congress 2019 in Quebec on June 17-20 will be my third world congress, after having attended WC 2015 in San Diego and WC 2017 in Stockholm. I am starting to feel [...]
Insight: Trip report from MS mixed reality dev days in Redmond on May 2-3, and reflections on the usefulness of HoloLens in CAE
(08.05.19) My colleague Frode Brandt just came back from Redmond after having attended Microsoft mixed reality dev days on May 2-3. He was brimming with enthusiasm for the device, being Ceetron's key guy in [...]
Invitation to professors: Revamp of Ceetron’s academic program
(02.05.19) For many university professors, May is the perfect time of the year for preparing the curriculum for autumn term. As input to your thinking, I am taking the liberty to share with you [...]
New product (family): Ceetron CAE Frameworks
(18.04.19) In my last blog post, I provided some insight into Ceetron's medium-term roadmap. In this blog post, I will share with our readers some insight into another part of our larger product strategy, that [...]
Insight: Ceetron roadmap 2019-2020
(20.03.2019) - Some of our customers, evaluators, and readers have asked about Ceetron's roadmap in various areas. We did not have a tradition for publishing such info (though Ceetron has always had highly roadmap-centric [...]
New and improved: Ceetron Cloud 2.0
(22.02.19) When Ceetron Cloud 1.0 was released in October 2015, my colleagues in Ceetron and I believed it would be an immediate commercial hit in the market. It never became the mass-market Dropbox-like offering for [...]
Release: Ceetron Cloud Components 2.8.0 is shipping
(04.02.2019) Ceetron released today Ceetron Cloud Components 2.8.0. The release contains a number of fixes and improvements, including: optimization of streaming and server processing; custom color scheme for scalar result mapping; support for eroded/deleted elements (LS-DYNA/ABAQUS); [...]
Release: Ceetron 3D Components 2.4.0 has been released
(24.01.2019) My colleagues in our development department released today 3D Components 2.4.0. The release contains a number of improvements and fixes, including support for Tecplot PLT file fomat, support for eroded/removed elements, optimized processing [...]
New product: Analyzer Desktop for Mac and Linux
(17.01.2019) Ceetron Analyzer Desktop was released on Windows around four months ago. It has delivered on our commitment to the CAE community to produce a post-processor for CAE with i) true cross-solver capabilities; ii) cross-discipline [...]
Release: GLview Inova 10.2.2 is out
(17.01.2019) GLview Inova was just released. The release contains a number of fixes and improvements, including: updated file readers (ANSYS 18.0, MSC.Marc 2017, MSC.Nastran 2016, ABAQUS 2018); improved handling of complex results from NASTRAN; side-by-side stereo [...]
New product: Ceetron Data Provider Framework
(22.12.2018) Ceetron released yesterday Ceetron Data Provider Framework, a framework for creating plugins for providing CAE data to applications built with Ceetron SDKs. Such plugin concept represents a rich generalization of the traditional file-based [...]
Release: Ceetron Analyzer 1.1.0 is out
(12.12.2018) We are pleased to inform current and prospective users of Ceetron Analyzer that 1.1.0 was released yesterday. The release contains a number of fixes and improvements, including: updated to Qt 5.11.2 for improved HighDPI support; [...]
Insight: Artificial intelligence in CAE, time to prepare
(07.12.2018) Yesterday, I attended Microsoft AI Executive Summit in Oslo, Norway. Having spent eight years as research scientist in the area of artificial intelligence (AI) at major research organizations in Norway and Canada, I [...]
Welcome to our webshop: The new way of purchasing software from Ceetron
(03.12.2018) We are pleased to inform current and prospective customers about our new GDPR compliant web shop. It is available from https://ceetron.wpengine.com, and most of our products are or will be available in the web [...]
Release: Ceetron Cloud Components 2.6.0 is shipping
(28.11.2018) Ceetron released today Ceetron Cloud Components 2.6.0. The release contains a number of fixes and improvements, including: a ConstantRemoteModel demo app for easy development of apps built on this technology; option to project vectors onto [...]
Release: 3D Components 2.3.0 has been released
(18.11.2018) We are pleased to inform Ceetron 3D Components customers and evaluators that 2.3.0 has been released. The release contains a number of improvements and fixes, including support for setting specular intensity for parts, cutting [...]
Release: Ceetron Cloud Components 2.5.0 is out
(29.10.2018) Ceetron released today Ceetron Cloud Components 2.5.0. The release contains a number of fixes and improvements, including: loading initial properties from VTFx files; visibility property for cutting planes, isosurfaces, isovolumes and particle trace [...]
Academic program (NEW): Conducive to deep CAE learning and insight in academic environments
(23.10.2018) Ceetron has always been deeply connected to the academic community, thought our roots (we were originally a spin-off from SINTEF, the research organization), through joint R&D projects with leading European universities and research [...]
Release: 3D Components 2.2.0 has been released
(23.10.2018) We are pleased to inform Ceetron 3D Components customers and evaluators that 2.2.0 has been released. The release contains a number of improvements and fixes, including new functionality in the the OpenFOAM reader [...]
Award: Ceetron-coordinated Eureka project receives innovation award at Innovation Expo 2018 in Rotterdam
(06.10.2018) On October 4, 2018 and as part of Innovation Expo 2018 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands' state secretary for economic affairs Mona Keijzer presented innovation awards to the no. 1 EU Eurostars projects over the [...]
Release: Ceetron partners with Altair to provide H3D support in Ceetron’s SDK and end user offerings
(06.10.2018) We in Ceetron are proud to announce that we have partnered with Altair to provide H3D support in Ceetron's SDK and end user offerings. H3D is Altair's compact file format for visualizing and [...]
Event: Meet us at CADFEM in Leipzig on October 10-12
(04.10.2018) Ceetron will be exhibiting at the 36th CADFEM ANSYS simulation-driven product development conference in Leipzig on October 10-12. We will have booth #6. We will bring with us a full bag of new stuff, [...]
New product: Ceetron Analyzer Desktop, rethinking CAE post-processing
(16.09.2018) Rethinking CAE post-processing, is that possible / meaningful? In 2016 my colleagues in Ceetron and I thought so, and today we are releasing Ceetron Analyzer Desktop. It has been a long journey and [...]
Release: Cloud Components 2.4.0 is out
(08.09.2018) This is what our CTO Fredrik Viken said on Slack about today's Ceetron Cloud Components 2.4.0 release: "The biggest release of C3 ever ... A full page of new features." Fredrik is not [...]
Release: Ceetron Cloud 2.0
(08.09.2018) I am pleased to inform our readers that my colleagues in development today released Ceetron Cloud 2.0, a Dropbox-like repository for CAE models. See picture to the left of a proud team. With [...]
Let the road trip begin. Ceetron’s trade fair trail this autumn
It’s back-to-school time for kids and at Ceetron, it’s back-to-trade-shows time! We will be present at four very different events this autumn, displaying our state-of-the-art Cloud visualization technology and our awesome (yes, awesome) VR-enabled Ceetron [...]
The diffusion of 3D visualization technologies from the field of CAE to the medical field
Grim Gjønnes, Head of Sales & Marketing, Ceetron AS. Back when studying engineering at university around 30 years ago, I, like many engineering students, had big dreams about solving key societal problems with brilliant [...]
Python and the CAE engineer: made for each other… of course!
In May 2016, Ceetron released 3D Components with Python bindings. When this happened, I (as responsible for quite a lot of the binding work) was tasked with writing a blog post about Python and [...]
Santa’s (Belated) VR Christmas Gift Guide, for the Serious CAE Professional
I must admit I stole the title of this blog post from Steven Rosenbaum, in a Forbes’ tech article (see the article here). Though his article is about consumer VR, I think he is in [...]
34th CADFEM ANSYS Simulation Conference: trip report and reflections on the innovation processes of smaller German CAE software companies and on remote visualization
Grim Gjønnes, Head of Sales & Marketing, Ceetron AS. I am just back from CADFEM’s 34th Fachkonferenz zur numerischen Simulation in der Produktentwicklung. The event took place in Nürnberg during October 5-7, 2016. [...]
Interview with Ceetron CTO Fredrik Viken about Ceetron’s upcoming release of their SDK for 3D visualization for cloud-based CAE applications
By Grim Gjønnes*, Crisp Ideas AS The cloudification of CAE applications is picking up speed. Established vendors like ANSYS, Autodesk and Dassault Systèmes Simulia, as well as newcomers such as Onshape, SimSolid and FIDESYS [...]
Xamarin for the CAE community, some reflections based on a PoC for a port of Ceetron 3D Components to Xamarin
By Frode Brandt, Senior Software Engineer at Ceetron AS On February 24 2016, Microsoft announced the acquisition of Xamarin, a development environment for mobile devices using C# with native user interfaces and shared code [...]
Security architectures for cloud-based CAE and SPDM offerings, an interview with Ceetron’s CTO Fredrik Viken
Fredrik Viken. CTO Ceetron The benefits of CAE in the cloud appear clear (see the blog post https://blog.ceetron.com/2015/12/14/cae-in-the-cloud/ for an overview, from a Ceetron perspective). Ceetron is committed to a strategy of making 3D [...]
The future of reporting CFD and FEA simulation results in engineering organizations, a perspective from the trenches
Tor Helge Hansen, CEO of Ceetron Some days ago, we released Ceetron Report Component (CRC), a tool for ISVs who create end user software for the CAE community. CRC’s goal is simple; [...]
Visualization in the cloud for CAE: A tale of two architectures
Fredrik Viken. CTO Ceetron In 2010, Ceetron began to re-shape our 3D Components software to be the visualization platform for a cloud-based world. The effort had two linked goals: 1) To enable the [...]
Ceetron Cloud–A partial, but crucial step towards CAE in the cloud
So, CAE engineer friend, having doubts about this cloud thing when it comes to professional data? Me too. Well not really, I must admit things are starting to clear up a bit. Let me [...]
The future of visualization solutions for HPC and HPC-based visualization, in CAE space
Over the last few weeks, I have been involved in discussion with various external parties about Ceetron’s visualization solutions and how they can be applied in the HPC world. I thought it could be [...]
Data exchange format standardization in the CAE market, and the case for standardization on VTFx
Grim Gjønnes, Dr. Ing., General Manager Crisp Ideas (DISCLOSURE: While an employee of Crisp Ideas AS, Oslo, Norway and adviser in the areas of business development and strategy to technology companies, I have and have had [...]
NAFEMS World Congress trip report, and the future role of 3D visualization in engineering analysis, collaboration, and V&V
Grim Gjønnes, Sales & Marketing Ceetron, General Manager Crisp Ideas Some weeks ago, I came back from the NAFEMS* World Congress on CAE in San Diego where a question that I had [...]
Future model sizes in the FEA and CFD community, an update based on interviews with industry insiders
Andres Rodriguez-Villa How many Ferraris did you see this morning on your way to work? Unless you work in the Maranello-based company, zero is the most likely answer. Of course, some days you [...]
A Better 3D Visualization Platform: The Business Case
When I speak to FEA- or CFD-based simulator providers about the case for replatforming to an industrial-grade 3D visualization platform, I often hear a two-part response: Yes, it looks technically good and robust, but It [...]
Technology prediction for Big 3D: Typical FEA and CFD model sizes to be used in the CAE community in 2020 and 2025
Andres Rodriguez-Villa According to a French saying, it is wise to turn your tongue seven times in your mouth before you speak. The publication of a recent blog post (https://blog.ceetron.com/2015/05/05/big-3d-in-the-cloud/) suggests I still [...]
"Big 3D" in the Cloud
How web-based 3D visualization will enable the cloudification of FEA/CFD software, and how that will transform today's engineering workflows. Why have computationally intensive engineering applications resisted cloudification? The rapid migration of mainstream business functions into [...]