Chapter 4

Examples of Virtual Prototyping Software (Tools)

This chapter describes some examples of the software tools that play a role in creating virtual prototypes. Generally, one tool cannot do everything.

4.0 Introduction

The preceding chapters describe the value of using digital prototypes or surrogates for product development and scientific research. They also highlight the key roles that computing, in general, and software, in particular, can play in modern product design and science. This chapter provides some examples of this software and illustrates their role in a product development workflow. Because of the paucity of examples in print of product development workflows outside of canonical ones such as ISO/IEC 15288 and the Systems ...

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