GrafiCalc FAQ

Question: What is GrafiCalc exactly?

GrafiCalc is field-proven design decision-support software that enables users to simulate, analyze, optimize, and validate all critical product performance and producibility parameters before committing to final design and manufacturing resources.

GrafiCalc is successful in the early stages of design when users have maximum questions and minimum information while conflicts are easiest to detect and least expensive to fix.

Question: Which version of GrafiCalc should I purchase?

GrafiCalc Standard version is useful for automating general design calculations, for performing "what if" analysis of design options, for backsolving geometry and for leveraging existing Excel calculations and CAD geometry.

GrafiCalc Professional version helps product development engineers who want to simulate design challenges involving motion.

GrafiCalc Extended version enables design, quality, and manufacturing engineers to make sure the product can be manufactured cost-effectively to perform as expected the very first time.

For feature comparison see the Features Matrix page.

Question: What are GrafiCalc proven applications?

GrafiCalc technology is being used by thousands of engineers worldwide - following is partial list of proven application areas:

• Alternate internal combustion engine design
• Automotive components design
• Belt systems design
• Boat and Ship Structure Design
• Calculation library development
• Car seat mechanism design
• Composites design
• Conveyor system design
• Design for six-sigma quality
• Earth moving machinery design
• Electro-Mechanical designs
• Fluid container design
• Force vector diagrams
• Forging process calculations and validation
• Forward and inverse kinematics
• Four wheel steering mechanism design
• Hydraulics driven machinery design
• Layout analysis
• Linkage and mechanism designs
• Logic driven machinery design
• Masonry Bridge Evaluation
• Mechanism space claim analysis
• Mechatronic design
• Motion control system design
• Opto-mechanical tolerance analysis
• Packaging design
• Packaging machinery design
• Paper machinery Design
• Pre-manufacturing tolerance validation
• Pre-modeling tolerance analysis and allocation
• Pressure vessel Design
• Pump Design
• Servo driven machinery design
• Steering mechanism design
• Strength of materials analysis
• Structural Engineering
• System level mechanism design
• Supply chain manufacturing capabilities validation
• Valve design

Question: What do I need to run GrafiCalc?

As a self-contained Windows standard software, GrafiCalc can be used completely standalone as well as in conjunction with Microsoft Office and all popular CAD applications.

System requirement: Any personal computer running Vista or Windows (32 or 64bit). The compact program size of less than 1 MB insures ultra-fast responses, even from a minimal system.

Question: How long does it take to learn GrafiCalc?

Engineers familiar with CAD and conventional spreadsheets can understand GrafiCalc principle of operations in less than an hour. GrafiCalc ships with tutorials and examples that help engineers to get productive with the software quickly and easily.

Detailed product video training modules are available online in the Training page. You can watch the training online as well as download the AVI files that you can watch off-line.

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