International Newsletter vol.15 2009/3
3.18.2009 FORUM8 Co., Ltd

----Contents----

--------What's New at FORUM8--------
-The Inaugural VR-StudioTM Conference & the 10th UC-win/Road Conference
-Won the First Prize for the Preliminary Analysis Fiber Model Category
-New Product and Upgrade Information

--------Upcoming Events--------
-Upcoming International Events
-Seminar in Shanghai, Beijing, and Seoul

--------FORUM8 Homepage Information--------
-FAQ
-Web Estimate Service
-Technical Support Service for UC-win/Road Overseas Users
-User Information Page

VR-Studio(TM)Conference / The 10th UC-win/Road Conference
The Inaugural VR-StudioTM Conference*
The 10th UC-win/Road Conference
Firstly, we would like to thank you all for your continued use of UC-win/Road.
Now we will hold this conference for the release of our new product VR-StudioTM. We have been continuously upgrading UC-win/Road and held this conference every year since the first version was released in May, 2000. The development framework for VR-StudioTM was begun in November, 2005 and now we have reached our goal of a product release after three and half years of development. At this conference, we will introduce and demonstrate this product. Additionally, as is the case every year, UC-win/Road users from universities and companies have been invited to give special lectures. Along with case examples with the latest version, there will be technical seminars for related products in streams 2 and 3, in the themes "Driving Simulators" as well as "CAD & VR". Other than that, with the exhibition of the 6-axis motion Experience Simulator, Demo Simulator and 3D Stereo function will also be exhibited, as well as a networking party, we hope you will enjoy the diverse content we have organised. Please join us at our conference, take a look at VR-StudioTM or related technologies and consider how they can be applied in your research, work, or proposals. As we're aware that you all have busy schedules, we hope this notice will enable you to attend.

*details subject to change		 VR-Studio(TM)

The 9th Road Conference, 2008, at Tokyo Conference Center

UC-win/Road UC-win/Road Drive Simulator The 9th UC-win/Road Conference Report

< Date / Venue >
Date Location Venue Notes
May-20-09
11:30 - 17:00
( Reception: 10:30 )		 Tokyo Hall A, Tokyo Conference Center, Shinagawa
The center is directly connected to the Konan exit of the JR Shinagawa Station
MAP
< Summary >
Participation
fee		 Free
< Schedule >
Simultaneous Interpretation
Hall A: Japanese - English / Chinese / Korean; Room 402: Japanese - English
11:00 (45) Lecture by developer (Hall A)
12:00
Buffet Lunch
Premium Members will be presented with lunch tickets
1:00
Main Session Technical Session
Stream-1 (Hall A)
"New Developments with VR-Studio"		 Stream-2 (Room 402)
"Driving Simulators"		 Stream-3 (Room 402)
"Analysis / CAD&VR"
1:00 (45) Special Lecture 1 Special Lecture 5 Special Lecture 7
2:00 (45) Special Lecture 2 Presentation 1 Presentation 3
3:00 (45) Special Lecture 3 Special Lecture 6 Special Lecture 8
4:00 (30) Demonstration 1 Presentation 2 Presentation 4
4:30 (30) Special Lecture 4 (Hall A)
5:00
Networking Party (buffet style, foyer) Free entry

Exhibits
6 axis motion SUBARU Experience SimulatorUC-win/Road Experience Simulator
(Try the "Driving Game"at the networking party for a chance to win a great prize)
* UC-win/Road Demo Simulator * UC-win/Road 3D Stereo Theater
Concurrent events
An expert training course for distributors and consultants
UC-win/Road Expert Training CourseMay 21 & 22, 2009, in Tokyo





Won the First Prize for the Preliminary Analysis Fiber Model Category
Our UC-win/FRAME (3D) analysis support team won the first prize for the Preliminary Analysis Fiber Model Category of Hyogo Earthquake Engineering Research Center. We will be publishing the contents that we've presented as the winning team at the awarding ceremony shortly on our website, so please look forward to it.



UC-win/Road Ver. 3.04.04 (Released February 20th, 2009)
Enhanced scenario function
Parallelizing scenarios
A scenario function set information about users' VR environment.
For more complicated interaction, multiple scenarios can be executed at the same time, dividing total flow by purpose.
One scenario can be used as a sub-block of a total scenario, calling or terminating another scenarios from one scenario.
For example, it was too difficult to implement multiple functions such as one scenario such as "driving speed monitoring function", "route guidance function", "traffic accident judging function", but in this upgrade, paralleling execution is available, which call each implemented scenario from a master scenario at the same time.



Expanded Event Action
1. Controlling a traffic light
At the specific intersection controlled by traffic lights, instant switching to the selected aspect is available.
In addition to that, intersection and aspect are easy to be selected by filtering or 3D previewing.



For example, this makes special light controlling available, such as Light Rail Transportation (LRT).

Please go to http://www.forum8.com/topic/up77-p08-e.htm for more information.



UC-win/Road Update Information

UC-win/RoadDB has a database function of 3D models, textures, section data via internet and is available directly from the product. 2,701 3D models, 3,030 textures and 65 sections are registered (as of December 12, 2008).
The latest updating information is...
  • MD3 characters : labor workers, the aged (men and women with wheel chairs), people riding on bicycles (men and women)
  • 3D models - buildings houses, shops and steel towers : guardian’s room
  • 3D models - road facilities : bus stop
  • 3D models - heavy equipments : movable hydraulic breaker
  • 3D models - park facilities : ground
  • 3D models - others : different height of cable pole, bicycle rack, movable gate
Some of models requested from UC-win/Road users are also opened.
Following table shows the downloading list this half a year from 2008.6 to 2008.11. MD3 characters and vehicles in the 3D department are popular, which number has recently increased, as well as trees and road textures in the Texture department. Anyway users seems to be interested in the new registered data.

Now we are creating textures and MD3 models and others:
  • Parametric textures, which is available on the intersection texture editing tool added in UC-win/Road Ver.3.4
  • MD3 models of evacuees, which is available on the UC-win/Rod for EXODUS
  • textures of emergency door and others
  • 3D models of office
  • MD3 models of people, which is available on UC-win/Road xpswmm plug-in
And 22 countries of the world heritage VR data preparation are also in the works. For example, the Angkor Vat in Cambodian, the Sydney opera house in Australia, the Borobudur temple in Indonesia, and historical place in Gyeongju, Korea have been created sequentially.

Above sample data is scheduled to be available on the upgraded version of UC-win/Road Ver.3.4 We make effort to offer more user-friendly UC-win/Road DB for user to be able to search necessary data smoothly.

1st 2nd 3rd
Characters
Men on bicycles (77)		 Characters
Women (68)		 Vehicles
luxury sedans (67)
3D department Top ranking Total downloaded number : 10,579

Please go to http://www.forum8.com/topic/up77-p08-e.htm#update for more information.




MD3 Character
New！
PDF About MD3 Characters (making way from motion captures) (03/03/2009)
 (16pages/PDF/ 813KB/Japanese version only)
Sample Movie

Texture
Excellent default textures of slopes, excavations, road surfaces, pavements, walls and such are available. Sky and landforms can be mapped in default, and many special textures such as trees and signs can be arranged with their dedicated commands. The cockpit while cruising can be used as a texture.

Section
Textures such as a cross section form, a road surface, a pavement are available as it is.

 Construction machinery
For the 3-D models of heavy machinery, over 100 types of construction machines from Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd. are supported as moving models.
* Please refer to the CG data license agreement for the use of the 3-D models of the heavy machinery.
The copyright is reserved by Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.

Please go to http://www.forum8.com/english/uc-win/ucwin-road-e1.htm#MD3 for more information.



UC-win/Road logo UC-win/Road Trial Version(English) Download
Application Form for Trial Version Download
Japanese English Korean Chinese
Trial version is provided for the user who consider purchase.
Please note that we may not accept your application according to the purpose of use such as the use of viewer version or investigations.

If you are interested in the trial version of UC-win/Road, please fill out the form at http://www.forum8.com/english/taiken-e.htm.



has been released.
Program Overview
ライン
Engineer's Studio, 3D FEM analysis program is in house development from pre-processing and calculation engine to post-processing.
This program analysis non-linear behavior of structure by modeling with beam elements considering a part of civil engineering and building structure as one bar or continuous plate elements.

Program Features
ライン
Main feature in analysis is that implement the 3D filer elements, which have ever received a good reputation and many actual results in UC-win/FRAME(3D) and the plate elements based on the Reissner-Mindlin theory and also static / dynamic analysis are available, considering material nonlinearity and geometric nonlinearity(Large Displacement) simultaneously.
Image of Fiber elements (the mathematical model on the right)

Plate elements can have laminated structures, consists of layers which direct to the thickness way
and define each setting for different type of materials between each layers or linear/non/linearity.
Reinforcement concrete non linear constitutive equation is adopted as concrete constitutive equation applied to the plate elements, which was developed by the concrete laboratory in Tokyo University.
Image of laminated plate elements (the mathematical model on the right)

Please go to http://www.forum8.com/english/uc-win/EngineersStudio-1e.htm for more information.


There have been updates on support topics (http://www.forum8.com/topic/supporttopics0-e.htm),
events (http://www.forum8.com/english/fair-e-2.htm),
Seminar Reports (http://www.forum8.com/english/fair-e-3.htm),
Up&Coming No.77 (http://www.forum8.com/english/topics-e.htm),
and Dealer Network News (http://www.forum8.com/topic/dealer0-e.htm).


-Seminar in Shanghai, Beijing, and Seoul

The seminars provide attendees an opportunity to acquire up-to-date information about our product.
One of the main goals of these seminars is to explain analysis and design
techniques which abound in the industry. Participation fee is free!
International Seminar
Venue
Shanghai - Shanghai Seminar room (FORUM8 Technology Development (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.)
Beijing - Conference room (Beijing Tepia Technology Co.,Ltd)
Seoul - Seminar room (BasisSoft, Inc.)
Seminar Date Venue
UC-win/Road - VR 27 May 2009 Seoul
4 June 2009 Shanghai
5 June 2009 Beijing
UC-win/Road Advanced 15 April 2009 Seoul
16 April 2009 Shanghai
17 April 2009 Beijing
2 June 2009 Seoul
UC-win/Road for Civil 3D 18 June 2009 Shanghai
19 June 2009 Beijing
UC-win/Road SDK 9 April 2009 Shanghai and Beijing
10 April 2009 Seoul
UC-win/FRAME(3D) Dynamic Analysis 15 May 2009 Shanghai and Beijing
Engineer's Studio 24 March 2009 Seoul
25 March 2009 Shanghai and Beijing
28 May 2009 Seoul
GeoFEAS 2D 19 March 2009 Shanghai and Beijing
EXODUS - SMARTFIRE 18 March 2009 Shanghai and Beijing
11 June 2009 Shanghai and Beijing
xpswmm 10 June 2009 Shanghai and Beijing
Maxsurf 8 April 2009 Shanghai and Beijing
OSCADY/TRANSYT 12 June 2009 Shanghai and Beijing
DesignBuilder 25 June 2009 Shanghai and Beijing
26 June 2009 Seoul
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ITE conferences in USA for 2009
22-25 March 2009
http://www.ite.org/meetcon/index.asp

ITS America 2009 Annual Meeting and Exhibition
1-3 June 2009
http://www.itsa.org/annualmeeting.html

ITS Stockholm 2009
21-25 September 2009
http://www.itsworldcongress.com
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The support service undertakes data generation tasks related to UC-win/Road such
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