Maplesoft™ has extended its MapleSim™ modeling platform for faster development time with expanded scope, allowing design engineers to better manage the complexity of engineering modeling and simulation problems in industries such as automotive, aerospace, electronics, and power.

MapleSim for physical modeling and a collection of new toolboxes enable fast model development, advanced analysis, and the creation of complex multi-domain models. Physical modeling is evolving as a fundamental and critical engineering process in response to the increasing complexity of emerging design challenge.

The new products include:

•MapleSim 3, the company's core physical modeling product, has enhanced capabilities with new component libraries for hydraulics and electrical machines, and refined solvers that handle even greater model complexity. New user interface features lead to faster development time and smoother workflow. MapleSim’s core symbolic technology produces optimized equation-based models, which provide real-time performance in key application areas such as hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) simulation. MapleSim is "built on a foundation of the world’s most powerful symbolic computation engine" and an extensive range of advanced analysis tools, supporting sensitivity analysis, optimization, and advanced visualization techniques
.•MapleSim Control Design Toolbox provides a set of essential control design tools that extend MapleSim’s plant modeling capabilities to support control design. This toolbox takes advantage of the symbolic approach for designing, analyzing, and testing control systems, which results in greater flexibility and accuracy. By developing plants and controllers together in the MapleSim environment, the development process is accelerated, and tool-switching cost is reduced. MapleSim also increases the reusability of controller designs through built-in technical documentation tools. 
•MapleSim LabVIEW® Connector integrates MapleSim's modeling environment into National Instruments popular LabVIEW real-time design platform. Engineers using LabVIEW can quickly develop and optimize complex engineering system models in the intuitive visual modeling environment of MapleSim. This new toolbox joins the MapleSim Simulink® Connector (formerly known as the MapleSim Connectivity Toolbox), which provides enhanced connectivity with The MathWorks Simulink and Real-Time Workshop®. When combined, these products ensure that MapleSim now connects to all popular real-time platforms.

Availability and pricing

Single-user professional licenses of MapleSim 3 are available for U.S. $2,995 and MapleSim LabVIEW Connector for U.S. $995. For its initial release, the MapleSim Control Design Toolbox will be included with MapleSim 3 at no extra cost. Volume, upgrade, and academic discounts apply. These products are available directly from the Maplesoft Web Store or by contacting Maplesoft Sales at 1-800-267-6583. Outside of the U.S. and Canada, the products are available from a local Maplesoft reseller.

Maplesoft also announced expansion of its Application Engineering Division to better assist customers with modeling issues in a timely manner and to rapidly deploy new techniques in engineering products. This group integrates services from Maplesoft’s solution partners from around the world.