Sao Paulo, Brazil - 29 November 2012

VI-CarRealTime 2012 Update Seminar

VI-grade is happy to invite you to the VI-CarRealTime 2012 Update Seminar!

The free-of-charge event, organized together with VI-grade's partner and reseller Multicorpos, meant to provide during a 2-day dedicated session a detailed overview of the new functionalities offered by the v14 release of the VI-CarRealTime flagship solution for reliable and efficient real-time automotive simulation, will take place on November 29th-30th, 2012 at the DoMore! congress center in the city of Sao Paulo, Brasil (get directions at this link).

During the event you will also have the chance to discover more about our on-going driving simulator activities. The meeting will end with a round-table discussion during which you will have the chance to provide your feedback to the VI-CarRealTime development team, directly influencing the future development directions.

The free-of-charge event will include welcome coffees, coffee breaks and a lunch buffet.

The meeting agenda is as follows:

DAY 1

09:00 - 09:30 VI-grade Company Presentation: VI-grade skill, products and services
09:00 - 11:00 VI-CarRealTime - One model from concept to sign-off. Product Overview
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 13:00 Why VI-CarRealTime? Advantages to using this tool and Live Demo
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 - 15:30 Driveline and Powertrain analyses: VI-CarRealTime - Maplesim integration
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:30 VI-CarRealTime as an exchange platform between OEM and suppliers: European OEMs Cases
17:30 Closing Day 1

DAY 2

8:30 - 9:30 VI-Driver: Driver Model
9:30 - 11:00 VI-CarRealTime + modeFRONTIER: BMW GT3 Team Brazil case and modeFRONTIER presentation
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 13:00 Software-in-the-loop and Hardware-in-the-loop: General application and Electric Power Steering (EPS)
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 - 15:30 VI-DriveSim: Application of VI-CarRealTime for driving simulation
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:30 Success case studies: Automotive and Motorsport Case Studies and BMW GT3 Team (Brazil)
17:30 Closing Day 2

We kindly ask you to confirm your participation to the VI-CarRealTime 2012 Update Seminar sending an email to the address treinamento@multicorpos.com.br.

You can download the seminar invitation and official agenda at this link.

We are looking forward to meeting you in Sao Paulo!

Global - 30 July 2012

Virtual Formula 2012

Virtual Formula 2012, realized with the media partnership of the Vehicle Dynamics International magazine and in collaboration with Lamborghini, is built upon the rules and regulations of the popular Formula SAE and Formula Student. The competition, that has seen in its past editions the participation of almost 200 different teams worldwide, will be based on the usage of VI-Motorsport, VI-grade’s interactive simulation environment for motorsport vehicle modeling and dynamic analysis. All registered teams will be granted access to a complete state-of-the-art racing simulation software to find the best set-up for their car.

Registrations are closed! More than 90 teams registered to the competition!

The instructions to download the software, the model files and the instructions and to request the software licenses are listed here below.

IMPORTANT NOTE: please note that you need to be registered to the VI-grade website in order to be able to download the files: if you are not yet registered, you can complete the registration process at this link. Due to the high number of registrations received, it might take up to 24 hours for your account to be enabled to download the files.

Download the VI-CarRealTime v14 installer at this link
Download Virtual Formula 2012 files (software, models and documents) at this link
Download GetHostID tool for v14 - x86 platform
Download VI-Licensing tool for v14 - x86 platform
Send the lmxhostid information obtained executing the GethostID tool on your machine to virtualformula@vi-grade.com
Download Virtual Formula 2012 results submission DOC file at this link

The teams will have time until Jan 15th, 2013 to submit their results to VI-grade.

The competition will end with an official presentation of the results during the forthcoming 5th VI-grade Users Conference.

The participating teams will be challenged to optimize the performance of a virtual race car, minimizing the lap time on a given autocross track. The competition will be won by the team that will drive the vehicle with the shortest lap-time on the given circuit.

The winning team will receive 2 VI-Motorsport licenses, a 1-day exciting VI-DriveSim session at VI-grade’s SimCenter as well as lots of merchandising material provided by Lamborghini, technical sponsor of the competition.

The HQ version of the invitation image is available at this link

For any support inquiries related to the Virtual Formula competition, please contact virtualformula@vi-grade.com.

Thank you for your participation to the 2012 edition of the Virtual Formula!

Turin, Italy - 23 May 2012

VI-CarRealTime 2012 User Meeting