[2024] Thorpe Park: Hyperia - Mack Hypercoaster

[flyingguitar]

First, Mack will be using CAD sw costing them millions/year. They know the forces on every piece of track, every footing/foundation, every nut and bolt. Somewhere it went amiss, possibly due to assumptions put into the model.

Cad probably won't cost them millions/ year

and this really isn't too unusuall, a gust of wind can catch a car at an unexpected time this isn't an uncommon thing especially for a brand new ride.

 

[Bowser]

Funny they have the app working for this press event. Everything is walk on!

 

[Smiley]

Cad probably won't cost them millions/ year

and this really isn't too unusuall, a gust of wind can catch a car at an unexpected time this isn't an uncommon thing especially for a brand new ride.

Yes, millions to purchase and then 18-20% maintenance fees. Once you have multiple packages and need all the bells and whistles.

 

[flyingguitar]

Yes, millions to purchase and then 18-20% maintenance fees. Once you have multiple packages and need all the bells and whistles.

that isn't millions/year,

CATIA (an standard in many industry's) is probably the most expensive, per seat it costs $14,100 meaning they would have to be buying 70 licenses per year, once they have brought them it is $2,500 for the annual maintenance, they would have to have over 400 licences, and I don't think amusement companies engineering teams are that large, according to LinkedIn they have 69 employees, this isn't a perfect match but a lot of them will be sales, managment etc, people who don't have much use of cad.

in addition there are many alternatives for significantly less, for instance fusion 360, solid works, space claim...