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History Trix Systems AB was founded in 1989 by Jörgen Frilander, Per Hillerström, and Dennis Jeryd and is based in Göteborg, Sweden. Initially established as a CAD consulting company, its client base grew rapidly to include many of Scandanavia's most prestigious corporations and public sector organizations. In 1992 Trix used its wide experience in solving CAD problems to develop TracTrix software - its first 'shrink-wrapped' application. Further shrink-wrapped products soon followed. Trix Systems US operation, Trix Systems, Inc. was founded in 1995 and is located in Chelmsford, Massachusetts. The company employs 11 people and its software products are sold in 18 countries around the world. Distribution is primarily through national distributors. Trix Systems also continues to provide consulting services to clients. The company is privately held. Core Business Development of software that enables CAD (Computer Aided Design) users to apply CAD more efficiently to the physical and organizational realities of construction and manufacturing. |
Business Environment The drawing board has been replaced by CAD. This has not reduced the amount of paper used in engineering. Products, buildings, tools are all still brought into being by making reference to drawings on paper. The computer screen is not yet sufficiently usable or durable for the shop floor or construction site. So the end product of CAD for everyday use is still paper. And administration and integration of the mix of paper and computer files has been a nightmare. Imagine you are a vendor for a component. Should I send you the specification as a design on paper or as a CAD file? What if you alter the CAD file without letting me know? Maybe you won't accept a CAD file because of these very implications? Or, conversely, you send me a design on paper and I need to have it in CAD to integrate with my overall product design. And what if some designs are in CAD and some on paper? Trix Systems has built its business by solving these sorts of problems, initially as custom solutions and now also as shrink-wrapped applications. In technical terms: CAD systems describe objects using vectors. Objects on paper comprise lots of tiny ink dots which human eyes interpret. These dot-based images are known as rasters. Trix software solves the problems of translation between rasters, vectors and the human eye. |
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