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TIE provides a completely
graphical environment for product and process modeling,
integration, and optimization. TIE includes a wide selection
of intuitive modules to make it easy to interface with common
engineering tools.
- ExceLink to interface
to data and macros in Microsoft Excel spreadsheets
- VisualParse to
extract data from (or generate) text files for proprietary
or legacy programs
- ProgramLink to
automate execution of local or remote programs or batch
files
- FunctionLink
to run functions or subroutines in external libraries
(DLLs).
- CADLink to interface
with dimensions, parameters, and geometry in CAD models.
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Built on proven AML technology, TIE
enables engineers to integrate their tools, automate their processes,
perform multidisciplinary trade studies and optimization, and ultimately
design better products, faster.
Complementary TechnoSoft Products
TechnoSoft's AMOpt
can be used within TIE to perform optimization, probabilistic design, and various trade studies. AMOpt provides a wide variety of methods,
including gradient-based optimization, a genetic algorithm, design
of experiments, Monte Carlo simulation, and response surface methodology,
all within an easy to use graphical environment,
consistent with TIE.
Knowledge-based geometry models
built in TechnoSoft's
AMSketcher
can also be used with TIE. This enables engineers to
integrate fully parametric
solid, surface, and wireframe geometry with other
multidisciplinary design and analysis tools.
Multiple TIE (or AML) models residing
on distributed, disparate computing platforms can easily be linked
together using TechnoSoft’s Distributed Modeling Manager (DMM).
TIE also provides a convenient environment
for deploying powerful
AML objects. AML developers
can create generative interfaces to complex tools, and TIE users
can easily link them into a TIE model in a plug-and-play fashion.
For example, the parameters of an interface to Nastran can be linked
within TIE to an Excel® based cost model, a file-based
FORTRAN code, and a Pro/ENGINEER® CAD model, and then
driven using a DLL-based optimization code.
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