1. Fast, Efficient, Intuitive Design Tools
CSI-Concepts focuses on the Conceptual Computer Aided Design (CCAD) phase of product life cycle development. This is the most demanding phase of design that requires fast, efficient, design tools.

Fast--Conceptual designers have different design requirements then production engineers. Conceptual designers need to explore multiple design iterations using different modeling methods including wireframe, surface, and solid modeling. Critical is the ability to modify ideas without recreating everything from scratch. Concepts achieves this by transparently capturing design intent through associativity (curves & surfaces) and history trees (feature based modeling). Modify a single curve and Concepts will automatically update associated surfaces, solids, features, and 2D drawings.

Efficient--Choose the design method that best suits the requirements at hand. This may involve creating a new design from scratch, overlaying curves on top of imported 2D sketches, or importing a SAT, IGES, STEP, PROE, CATIA file and then use Concepts exceptional extreme modeling tools to perform feature independent modifications.

Intuitive--Modifying a NURB surface using control vertices, weights, and knots is for mathematicians, not designers. Next generation modeling methods provide an alternative method using push, pull, twist, and deform.

2. Design with Next Generation Modeling Tools
The next generation of modeling involves the emergence of Extreme Modeling tools. Extreme modeling tools combine warping, deformation, and local face operations to augment traditional modeling tools. Use next generation modeling tools to design "outside the box" and create shapes beyond extruded, lathed or swept profiles.

3. Commitment to Quality

Since our inaugural release, our development team has released three quality focused service packs. That combined with two major updates a year that address new features ensures that you will be keep up to date with competitive design tools. With the demanding pace of the conceptual design process, can you afford to wait more than a year for service packs or updates?

4. Precision and Preservation of Data Integrity

Unlike facet based modelers, Concepts utilizes a production based modeling kernel with ACIS. Similar to other modern kernels, ACIS utilizes combinations of NURB's and analytic math forms to precisely define simple as well as complex shapes. ACIS is the modeling kernel of choice used by hundreds of CAD, CAM, and CAE applications around the world.

Because of the popularity of the ACIS kernel, most CAD/CAD/CAE systems can read SAT files directly without translation. Direct SAT is a valuable asset for preserving data integrity (DXF/DWG support SAT). If your system doesn't support SAT, then try our IGES, PROE, and Step translation solutions. And finally, if your are a CATIA user, our CATIA v4 translator comes directly from Dassault since Spatial is a division of Dassault.

5. Experienced Development Team
CSI was founded in 1994 by Tim Olson, formerly Chief Engineer of Lockheed's Preliminary Design Methods group. At Lockheed Tim was responsible for the development of their conceptual computer aided design system, so concept modeling is not new to CSI. As such, the CSi team has been directly involved with the development of complex modeling applications since the early 80's. Very few companies have the experience with surface and solid modeling like CSI.

6. Dedicated Resellers
CSI sells our products through a network of dedicated value added resellers whom offer training as well as technical support.