NexGen Ergonomics Announces HumanCAD^® Version 2.5 with Advanced Feature Set

Montreal, September 4, 2013 -- NexGen is pleased to announce the release of HumanCAD 2.5, our next generation digital human modeling platform. HumanCAD is a human modeling solution that creates digital humans in a three-dimensional environment in which a variety of ergonomic and human factor analysis can be performed. HumanCAD aids users with the design of products and workplaces by determining what humans of different sizes can see, reach, or lift.

Release 2.5 includes:

• New custom anthropometry features
• New and improved skinning for mannequins
• New somatotype feature: Using the anthropometry editor you can now modify the somatotype of your virtual human model.
• The Advanced Functions Set enhancements with a more detailed spine model, additional customizable head variable using US army 1988 and Canadian military database of 1997 anthropometric values, Mannequin skeleton representation and a more detailed shoulder model.

The first version of the ManneQuin/HumanCAD series of human modeling solutions was released in 1990 and has thousands of users worldwide. HumanCAD digital human modeling technology is an important tool in determining the human fit of products and workplaces before they are built. Leading manufacturing corporations, product design companies, government organizations, forensic consultants and universities have purchased our digital human modeling solutions.

NexGen is the leading developer and distributor of software and instrumentation for ergonomic and biomechanical job analyses, design and research. These include a variety of products for performing biomechanical, 3D digital human modeling, video analysis, motion capture systems, force measurement, human vibration analysis, sEMG and physiological measurement, data acquisition, as well as many others.

For more information, contact:

David Pinchefsky, B.A.Sc.
President
NexGen Ergonomics Inc.
Montreal, Canada
Tel: (514) 685-8593
Email: pinchefsky@nexgenergo.com
Web: www.nexgenergo.com