MAPLESOFT MAPLE v12

WATERLOO, CANADA, MAY 6, 2008 — Maplesoft™, the leading provider of high-performance software tools for engineering, science and mathematics, today announced the next release of Maple™, the company’s hugely popular tool to solve complex mathematical problems and create rich technical documents. Maple is already an industry standard tool in engineering and scientific circles. Maple 12 introduces an extensive range of new tools built on Maple’s fundamental technology platform of smart documents, powerful mathematics, and seamless connectivity to the engineering design toolchain.

One of the most significant features of this release is the direct connectivity between Maple 12 and popular CAD systems such as SolidWorks and Autodesk Inventor. CAD users will now be able to deploy powerful mathematical capabilities to dramatically extend the range of analysis on CAD models. Based on major industry trends and extensive consultation with its user base, the product also offers new ways to develop sophisticated mathematical models faster and more accurately than ever before. A new collection of Dynamic Systems modeling tools essential in dynamic modeling, control design, and signal processing is yet another important addition to the new release. These tools will add convenient frequency domain analysis, state space analysis, and more to Maple’s already extensive mathematical tool set.
Major new features of Maple 12 include:
Connectivity to CAD systems and the engineering workflow:
- In addition to the groundbreaking ability to connect Maple 12 and popular CAD systems directly, users are now able to deploy powerful mathematical capabilities to dramatically extend the range of analysis on CAD models. In addition, Maple 12’s knowledge-documentation tools allow engineers to tag designs electronically with rich technical documentation and calculations. As a result, design calculations are integrated seamlessly into the overall enginee-ring workflow.
- Additional connectivity innovations include MATLAB code import and translation to enable the easy migration of legacy code to new Maple documents, and database connectivity to allow Maple 12 applications to directly access external datasets stored in popular SQL databases.
New Analysis Tools:
- The new Dynamic Systems package offers a large selection of analytic and graphing tools for linear time-invariant systems, which are essential in control systems development.
- New Wavelets support provides easy access to the most powerful suite of wavelet tools in any general-purpose computation package. Wavelets are emerging as next-generation analytical techniques in key areas such as image processing and have begun to replace more traditional techniques such as FFT.
- New plotting capabilities dramatically simplify the creation of complex engineering plots. New plot types include dual axis plots, polar plots, and specialized engineering plots such as frequency domain responses and root-locus plots.
- Major enhancements to the differential equation and differential-algebraic equation (DAE) solvers strengthen Maple’s world-leading position in this critical area.
Smarter Documents:
Maple’s exclusive smart document technology is greatly enhanced with a range of new features. Performing even the most complex mathematical task or creating the most sophisticated technical application is easier than ever.
- Improvements to customizable interactive components: Users now have a greater choice in buttons, controls, and other interface tools. In addition, the new Exploration Assistant allows users to create interactive mini-applications to explore the parameters of their expressions instantly.
- Code editor: For advanced users who develop custom code, Maple 12 includes tools that make Maple scripts and procedures easier to write. The code editor makes the creation of any advanced application faster; the final result is easily distributed, attractive, and easy to use.
- “Clickable” enhancements: Maple has received rave reviews for its “clickable” approach to math, which uses mouse clicks, menus, and palettes, and more, instead of the conventional command-line approach still in use by many systems. Maple 12 offers a wide range of improvements that enhance the overall usability of the system.

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HyperCube HyperChem Professional v8.0.4

HyperCube HyperChem Professional 8.0.4 - is the newest Windows member of the HyperChem Family. Computational methods include molecular mecha-nics, molecular dynamics, and semi-empirical and ab-initio molecular orbital methods, as well as density functional theory.
HyperChem Data and HyperNMR are included as part of HyperChem. New features are continually added and include elegant Open GL rendering, TNDO, RM1, Charmm protein simulations, molecules in magnetic fields, interfaces to third-party applications, calculations of structure, spectra, rate constants and much more. HyperChem is applicable to macromolecules as well as small molecules and is scriptable.
HyperChem is a sophisticated molecular modeling environment that is known for its quality, flexibility, and ease of use.
Uniting 3D visualization and animation with quantum chemical calculations, molecular mechanics and dynamics, HyperChem puts more molecular modeling
tools at your fingertips than any other Windows program. It includes all the components of structure, thermodynamics, spectra, and kinetics.
Our newest version, HyperChem Release 8.0, is a full 32-bit application, developed for the Windows 95, 98, NT, ME, 2000, XP, and Vista operating systems. HyperChem Release 8.0 incorporates even more powerful computa-tional chemistry tools than ever before, as well as supporting multiple third-party applications. Its drawing and rendering capabilities and ease of use are standards for the industry.
Release 8.0.4 Now Available:
FIXES to v8.0.3 in v8.0.4:
- The hsv.h, hsv.bas, hsv.fi are now corretly installed and consistent with Release 8.0.3 or 8.0.4.
- The script command "name-selection XXX" where XXX is POINT, LINE or PLANE has been fixed.
- The NewUser80.exe file, allowing the installing of a user apart from administrator, is now part of the standard install.
- The softlock version of HyperChem now only looks at the hard drive and not the ethernet card. This elimnates some problems associated with losing ones license when the network configuration is changed.
- A bug with linear (not constant) potentials in the Particle-in-a-Box annotations is fixed.
- A bug associated with displaying electrostatic potentials for very large molecules has been fixed.
- Some additional sample scripts have been added to the CDK directory.

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