brian@premise.ZONE1.COM (Brian Moran) (08/13/90)
Archive-name: designview/10-Aug-90
Original-posting-by: brian@premise.ZONE1.COM (Brian Moran)
Original-subject: X11 app for SPARC/DECstation FTPable
Archive-site: eddie.mit.edu [18.62.0.6]
Archive-directory: /DesignView
Reposted-by: emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti)
SUBJECT: X11/Motif SPARC/DECstation application available for FTP
(This software is currently available on MIT's ATHENA as part of the mechanical
engineering curriculum)
DesignView/UNIX is available for anonymous FTP from EDDIE.MIT.EDU
(18.62.0,6). The files are located in the DesignView directory. The
file dv-SPARC.tar contains the SPARC executables and X11r4 for the
Sun SPARCstation, while dv-examples.tar.Z contains some sample files
for both versions. The file dv-DECstation.tar contains the
DECstation 3100 files.
This version of DesignView is fully functional for at least 30 days
from the date of installation on your system. During the
installation of DesignView on your machine, you will be given a
server code, which you must supply to Premise via our 800 number. You
will be given back an authorization key that will activate the
software on your machine and machines on your network. If you are
installing on a network, please tell us that when you call so that we
can give you a code to activate multiple copies of DV.
If you have any questions/comments, you can contact Premise via email:
email:
dv-unix@premise.zone1.com
{..,mirror,mit-eddie}!premise!dv-unix
or more conventional means:
Premise, Inc.
Three Cambridge Center
Cambridge, MA 02142
(617) 225-0422
(800) 888-7736
A brief description of DesignView follows:
{ this is file README.1st in the dv-SPARC.tar or dv-DECstation.tar archive }
DesignView UNIX University/Industry Trial
DesignView can best be described as an engineering sketchpad. It is a
tool for students, engineers, and designers to use to draw
geometry, add constraints and equations describing interactions and
behaviors, thereby constructing models of physical and mechanical
reality. These models can be analyzed, changed, and optimized by
moving geometry or changing equations. It is a true "what-if" tool
for engineering.
One of DesignView's strengths is its usability. DesignView uses X11 as its
graphical user interface foundation; some users never even open our
award-winning manual. Engineers have learned DesignView in one day, and
have solved previously unsolvable problems the next. DesignView is
also available for Microsoft Windows (under DOS) with a nearly identical
user interface.
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