Hello,

I'd like to thank everyone who has taken the CifToAnsys software for a test run.
 To handle the load, some improvements have been made to made so that the
software scales better.  The limit on design submissions is now 10KB, instead of
1.5KB.  So, if you have any larger designs you would like to take for a test
run, please do.

URL:  http://www.sfu.ca/~rjohnsto/ciftoansys.html


For those of you who missed the original annoucement:

I'm making publicly available a web interface to an application that I wrote for
modeling MUMPs devices.  The software takes, as input, a Caltech Interchange
Format (CIF) file containing the layout for a device.  It then processes the
data and returns a full 3D model of the device.

The application can generate both Ansys Neutral Format (ANF) and Virtual Reality
Markup Language (VRML) files.  The ANF files can be read directly into ANSYS and
used as the geometric part of a finite element analysis.  The VRML files can be
posted on the web.

I invite you all to take the application for a test run.  Currently, the only
fabrication process supported is MUMPs.  However, the application is built on a
generic engine, and other surface micromachining process could very easily be
developed if there is demand.

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Robert Johnstone
Simon Fraser University
http://www.sfu.ca/~rjohnsto/