Modeling Environment facilitates electronics product design.
Press Release Summary:
Sketchup(TM) provides tools, 3D images, and software scripts to accelerate and facilitate design and visualization of electronics products and product enclosures. Libraries of electronics parts and gumstix products are available in Google 3D Warehouse, and these can also be used to model custom expansion boards developed in Cadsoft's Eagle(TM) CAD software. Completed models are appropriate for stereolithography prototyping.
Original Press Release:
Gumstix, Inc. Pioneers Sketchup(TM) for Electronics Product Design
PALO ALTO, Calif., May 30 -- Gumstix, Inc., today announced the "Dream to Deliverable" modeling environment for electronics product designers. The environment uses popular design tools, 3D images, and software scripts to accelerate and simplify the design and visualization of electronics products and product enclosures. Libraries of electronics parts and gumstix products are available in the Google 3D Warehouse. These can also be used to model custom expansion boards developed in Cadsoft's Eagle(TM) CAD software. Completed models are appropriate for stereolithography prototyping.
Gumstix has published all the data and tools under a Creative Commons license for commercial use as well as further community development.
"Our OEM customers are pushing a new wave of innovative products into the marketplace based on our gumstix technology," said W. Gordon Kruberg, CEO and President of Gumstix, Inc. "This simple set of data and scripts makes the design process much more effective and far less costly than before."
Further information is available at http://docwiki.gumstix.org/Sketchup
About Gumstix, Inc.
Gumstix develops and sells full function miniature computers directly to network managers, software engineers and commercial product designers in over sixty countries around the world. Built on an open source platform, the gumstix product line supports the growing network and wireless devices markets and offers motherboards, expansion boards and waysmall(TM) computers. Based near Palo Alto, California, Gumstix is privately owned and operated. For more information visit http://www.gumstix.com/.
CONTACT: Don Anderson of Gumstix, Inc., 1-888-427-3428, don@gumstix.com
