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PC-Crash Features

Next Generation Analysis Starts Here

PC-Crash 13.0 Two wheeled driver control
- Driver model to steer 2-wheeled vehicles
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PC-Crash 13.0 Backwards Trailer Simulation
- Chained vehicle motion backwards in time
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PC-Crash 13.0 New Occupants and Animated Pedestrians
- 3D models for vehicle occupants
- New animated pedestrians
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PC-Crash 13.0 High Resolution Screenshots
- Double-resolution screenshots
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PC-Crash 13.0 Machine Learning severity from photos
- Neural Network trained on photos
- Estimates the impact severity
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PC-Crash 12.1: 360 VR
- Use 360 images
- render VR video
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PC-Crash 12.1: Super-resolution image enhancement
- Bicubic image scaling
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PC-Crash 12.1: 360 panoramas & videos
- Use 360 images
- render VR video
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PC-Crash 12.1: Trailer Loads as DirectX Objects
- Load DirectX shapes
- scale and position
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PC Crash 12.1: Multibody Optimization
- Adjust Hue/Saturation/Lightness
- Brightness/Contrast, or Invert colors
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PC-Crash 12.0: Viewports
- Multiple Views at Once
- 2D - 3D options
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PC-Crash 12.0: Camera match improvements
- Background images now automatically toggle on-off
- Selection gets a zoomed-in target
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PC-Crash 12.0: Vehicle spring connections
- Attach springs dampers directly
- simulate rope, chains, or other connections
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PC Crash 12.0: Point cloud color control
- Adjust Hue/Saturation/Lightness
- Brightness/Contrast, or Invert colors
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PC-Crash 11.1: Shadows & Reflections
- Extensive 3D rendering improvements
- Including shadows, reflections, and lighting
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PC-Crash 11.1: Light sources on vehicles
- Attach light sources
- To vehicles
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PC-Crash 11.1: Solar position display
- Use the solar calculator
- Determine the sun's position
- Put the sun in that position for your animation
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PC-Crash 11.1: Optimizer Log File
- Save a log file
- Using your Monte Carlo Collision Optimizer trials
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PC-Crash 11.1: Sequence labels
- Label your sequences
- For better organization
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PC-Crash 11.1: Looming
- Using sightlines
- Between vehicles
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PC-Crash 11.0: Texture mapping from background image

New Texture Mapping feature
- From photographic evidence
- Generate textured objects
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PC-Crash 11.0: New vehicle outlines

Vehicle outline wraps
- Improves contact detection
- New 3D vehicle envelopes
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PC-Crash 11.0 : Vehicle Display

Simulation playback feature
- Vehicles can now be shown or hidden
- At different times
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PC-Crash 11.0: UI Changes

User Interface updates
- new updates to the UI
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PC-Crash 11.0: Save impact parameters

Saving parameters

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PC-Crash 11.0: The Ribbon
- New organization
- Menus and tools
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PC-Crash 11.0 : E57 point clouds and UCS improvements

Load and save binary 3D scan / point clouds
- Much smaller
- Faster operations
- Simplified workflow
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PC-Crash 10.2: Powered multibody joints

Power your multibody simulations
- Build multibody vehicles
- Drive over pedestrians
- Wheels roll over objects
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PC-Crash 10.2: 3D camera matching

Use scene photos to recolor your scene
- Zoomed point selection
- Map photo data to your scene
- Use as textures on planes
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PC-Crash 10.2: Camera flight paths

Fly around your animations
- Move between predefined cameras
- Stay or move as you like
- Works in preview too
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PC-Crash 10.2: Time-varying multibody joints

Change joint stiffness over time
- Specify piecewise-linear stiffness
- Use for braking or acceleration
- Rotational or translational joints
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PC-Crash 10.2: 3D scan improvements

Positioning scans is now a snap
- Define a zero plane
- Move scans to new layers
- Improved point selection
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PC-Crash 10.2: Program Active Safety

New Visual Programming Interface
- Cars can sense each other
- Program your own control logic
- Reuse program blocks
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PC-Crash 10.1: New Orthographic Views

2D from a new perspective
- Work on your project from new viewpoints
- Save custom views in your project
- Change coordinate systems to match your view
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PC-Crash 10.1: Advanced Optimizer

More power, more control
- Optimize on over 40 parameters
- Braking, steering, even geometry or inertia
- Use other collision models, or no collision at all
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PC-Crash 10.1: New Multibody Joint Speeds

Powered joints
- Set a linear or angular joint velocity
- Build a Multibody vehicle to drive over stuff
- Make realistic rotating wheels
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PC-Crash 10.1: Full Vehicle FEA

A new frontier in accident reconstruction software
- NCAC validated vehicle models
- Runs in hours
- Batch control
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PC-Crash 10.1: Point Cloud Improvements

More power and convenience
- More flexible selection and editing
- Filtering to reduce complexity
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PC-Crash 10.1: 3D Improvements
- Save camera views in your project
- Transparency for any object or color
- Recolor DirectX vehicles by part
- ... and much more
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PC-Crash 10.1: Camera Position Optimizer

Go from scene photo to data
- Find where a photo was taken
- Map photo features to your scene
- Use aerail photos, survey data or 3D scanner clouds
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Point Clouds

3D spaces made from points!
- Use for vehicles and scenes
- .xyz .xyzrgb file formats
- Supports tens of millions of points
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MultiBody Joint Types

More control
- Now with pins, pistons, universal joints and more
- Use joint limits for more realism
- Build complex systems like motorcycles with rotating wheel and compressible forks
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Finite Element Analysis

Full FEA in PC-Crash
- Create, edit, compute, display
- Multiple element types and materials
- Batch processing
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Antiroll Forces

On suspension models
- Generate additional suspension load based on left/right differential compression
- Use different antiroll factors for each axle
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Traffic lights

Show light phase in your simulation
- Traffic lights that change phase
- Customizable sequence tables
- Seen in 3D and 2D
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Powerful and Validated

PC-Crash 13.0

PC-Crash™ is a Windows™ collision & trajectory simulation tool that enables the accurate analysis of a wide variety of motor vehicle collisions and other incidents.

Results are viewed as 3D-animations and detailed reports, tables and graphs.
PC-Crash™ has an innovative collision model that efficiently balances simplicity and accuracy in reconstructing vehicle collisions.
And the Collision Optimizer cuts hours off of your search for the best solution.

MEA Forensic sells and supports PC-Crash™ and PC-Rect™ in North America and other areas of the world.

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Continuing MEA's tradition of providing free technical support, you can contact us any time.Email us your problem. Attach your project file, if you wish. We will get back to you within a week.
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Note that MEA does not provide free support of obsolete versions of PC-Crash. We will continue to support
PC-Crash 11.0 and subsequent versions.
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911 Help

For those times when you're willing to pay for some help. If your question fits into the phrasing "How should I do X?" then this is the option for you. This isn't outsourced tech support – the people you'll be talking to use PC Crash in their own consulting work daily. These are experts who teach the courses, and speak regularly with the developers. Email support@pc-crash.com. If this relates to an active case, include details for a conflict check (date of incident, location, and names of the parties involved). We'll set you up a billing account, and get your problem solved right away.

Remember, we also have lots of Training On Demand options available 24/7.

Training

PC-Crash is technical software for serious users.
It's powerful and gives you a lot of freedom, so that you can simulate unique events.
It therefore necessarily leaves you the option to make a mess.
Don't let yourself do this.

Live Workshops

Sometimes you need to carve out some time dedicated to learning. Until we can meet in again in person, come to our webinars learn from the Lead Developer of PC-Crash, Dr. Andreas Moser, and Brad Heinrichs of MEA Forensic. Work through new features and case studies with them.

Demo software is available at live workshops, but not available for webinars.

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Training on Demand

"Wait, can you do that again?" is the most frequently asked question at our Live Workshops. With Training on Demand, you are in the driver's seat: You choose what topics to cover and when to cover them. Stop the lesson and replay whenever you like. On-Demand training lets you take training on your schedule at a very reasonable price.

Our On-Demand courses are each broken into smaller videos for easy replay. Take a whole course or brush up on a topic in just one of those chunks. Any PC-Crash materials used in each course are available for download from the course rental page so you can follow along.

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Course Series

Essentials: Everything you must know to use PC-Crash.

Expert: These courses still show what the program can do, and how do you do it, but go beyond the Essentials.

Theory: Digging into how PC-Crash works, and comparing with analytical results. Call it "Cross-examination proofing".

Skills & Validation: Reconstructing staged collisions, rollovers, and human interactions. Looking at errors, sensitivity and engineering judgment issues.

Coding:Driving PC-Crash through VBA. Programming Active Safety Systems.

Details & Pricing

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PC-Crash offers a lot for a reasonable price.
No costly subscription-based support or maintenance,
and upgrades are now more accessible than ever.

We want everyone to get a chance to use the latest version, even if they haven't upgraded in years.

PC-Crash Pricing

			Number of Licences
Licence		First	Second & Third	Fourth+
New	13.0	$4999	$2999	$1999
Upgrade to 13.0 from	12.1	$849	$599	$399
	11.1 to 12.0	$1499	$999	$749
	10.2 to 11.0	$1999	$1399	$999
	10.0 to 10.1	$2999	$1999	$1499

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Other Apps

MADYMO™

This optional module that extends PC-Crash's existing occupant simulation abilities with full FEA. MADYMO will calculate the dynamics of a standard crash test dummy during crashes simulated with PC-Crash.

MADYMO

PC-Crash2D

PC-Crash 2D

PC-Crash 2D lets you start with the essentials for a very attractive price. Plus, 2D users can upgrade to the full PC-Crash version at a reduced price.

PC-Crash 2D

PC-Rect

This package converts oblique scene photographs or videos pixel-by-pixel into scaled plan views. From the plan view, users can then measure in-plane distances and angles of accident scene evidence.

PC-Rect

AZT EES Catalog

A set of vintage European crash test images with impact severity

AZT EES Catalog

2D DXF Library

Orthographic front, rear, side, and top drawing of older vehicles.

2D DXF Library

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Program a Car Motor Braking Animation

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Program a Car Motor Braking Animation

collision & trajectoryphysics simulation

PC-Crash Features

Next Generation Analysis Starts Here

PC-Crash 13.0 Two wheeled driver control

PC-Crash 13.0 Backwards Trailer Simulation

PC-Crash 13.0 New Occupants and Animated Pedestrians

PC-Crash 13.0 High Resolution Screenshots

PC-Crash 13.0 Machine Learning severity from photos

PC-Crash 12.1: 360 VR

PC-Crash 12.1: Super-resolution image enhancement

PC-Crash 12.1: 360 panoramas & videos

PC-Crash 12.1: Trailer Loads as DirectX Objects

PC Crash 12.1: Multibody Optimization

PC-Crash 12.0: Viewports

PC-Crash 12.0: Camera match improvements

PC-Crash 12.0: Vehicle spring connections

PC Crash 12.0: Point cloud color control

PC-Crash 11.1: Shadows & Reflections

PC-Crash 11.1: Light sources on vehicles

PC-Crash 11.1: Solar position display

PC-Crash 11.1: Optimizer Log File

PC-Crash 11.1: Sequence labels

PC-Crash 11.1: Looming

PC-Crash 11.0: Texture mapping from background image

New Texture Mapping feature

PC-Crash 11.0: New vehicle outlines

Vehicle outline wraps

PC-Crash 11.0 : Vehicle Display

Simulation playback feature

PC-Crash 11.0: UI Changes

User Interface updates

PC-Crash 11.0: Save impact parameters

Saving parameters

PC-Crash 11.0: The Ribbon

PC-Crash 11.0 : E57 point clouds and UCS improvements

Load and save binary 3D scan / point clouds

PC-Crash 10.2: Powered multibody joints

Power your multibody simulations

PC-Crash 10.2: 3D camera matching

Use scene photos to recolor your scene

PC-Crash 10.2: Camera flight paths

Fly around your animations

PC-Crash 10.2: Time-varying multibody joints

Change joint stiffness over time

PC-Crash 10.2: 3D scan improvements

Positioning scans is now a snap

PC-Crash 10.2: Program Active Safety

New Visual Programming Interface

PC-Crash 10.1: New Orthographic Views

2D from a new perspective

PC-Crash 10.1: Advanced Optimizer

More power, more control

PC-Crash 10.1: New Multibody Joint Speeds

Powered joints

PC-Crash 10.1: Full Vehicle FEA

A new frontier in accident reconstruction software

PC-Crash 10.1: Point Cloud Improvements

More power and convenience

PC-Crash 10.1: 3D Improvements

PC-Crash 10.1: Camera Position Optimizer

Go from scene photo to data

Point Clouds

3D spaces made from points!

MultiBody Joint Types

More control

Finite Element Analysis

Full FEA in PC-Crash

Antiroll Forces

On suspension models

Traffic lights

Show light phase in your simulation