Customer-specific software. MSC/Acumen is a business offering that includes expert system software which captures and directly integrates with a customer's engineering processes, standards and workflow. The applications enable novices to perform complex simulation which otherwise requires experts, and are based on a foundation of commercial middleware including MSC/PATRAN and MSC/NASTRAN. The package involves a service for the creation of required applications, a toolkit adapted for specific tasking, and a training program to build clear and unambiguous applications. The MacNeal-Schwendler Corp, 815 Colorado Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90041-1777. 213-258-9111. Circle 825.

Multi-directional mouse. The ScrollPad Mouse is designed for desktop and notebook PC use. The unit is a streamlined two-button mouse with a miniature touch pad embedded between the two buttons. When single tapped, the pad jogs a single step in the requested direction. Double tapping selects Auto Scroll or other functions. Smooth finger movement produces up, down, left or right scrolling. About $40. Fujitsu Takamisawa America, Inc, 250 E Caribbean Dr, Sunnyvale, CA 94089. 800-380-0059. Circle 826.

Workstation graphics board. Oxygen RPM delivers an expansive 64 Mbytes of unified graphics memory, while the Oxygen GMX board uses the GLINT GMX 2000 chipset to support full 3-D geometry and lighting acceleration with scaleable rasterization processing. On dual CPU systems, RPM can render 2 million polygons-per-second, while GMX has a peak geometry of 3.3 million lit, transformed polygons-per-second. List prices: GPX-$2,299; RPM-$1,499. 3Dlabs Inc, 480 Potrero Ave, Sunnyvale, CA 94086. 408-530-4700.
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FE models from CAD solids. Speeding the design in the plastics industries, Mesh Express uses stereolithography (STL) file format to quickly and automatically convert solid models into midplane finite element models. STL is a universal file format that can be exported from most CAD systems. All models converted in this process can then be applied in the company's advanced simulation modules, including Shrinkage and Warpage. C-MOLD, 9625 Ormsby Station Rd, Louisville, KY 40223. 502-423-2350. Circle 828.