Template Client Edition
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Bringing Simulation Earlier into the Design Process
MSC SimDesigner is a component of the MSC SimEnterprise simulation product suite, which also includes MSC SimXpert and MSC SimManager. SimEnterprise enables manufacturing companies to improve product development by deploying role-based simulation applications and enabling integration to third party and in-house tools used for the design and test of products. Through the use of SimEnterprise, companies can build corporate standards for simulation and virtual test processes, create and capture simulation methods and knowledge for reuse across user types and supply chain, and manage and control simulation data and process pedigree.
SimDesigner Template Client Edition plugs into the CAD environment allowing designers across the engineering department and into the supply chain to retrieve and execute simulation templates authored by expert analysts. Template guided analysis ensures proper modeling, simulation inputs, materials data, discipline methods and CAE best practices are being followed by CAD users.
SimDesigner Template Client Edition is offered for the following CAD systems: - CATIA V5
- NX
- Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire
Product manufacturers using one or more of these CAD systems can enforce simulation standards to CAD users and ensure they are following corporate best practices for virtual testing. |
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Benefits
| • | Increase the amount and quality of analysis being performed by design engineers and suppliers throughout the various stages of product development. |
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| • | Drive simulation earlier in the design process to lower the cost of design changes and improve product quality and manufacturability. |
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| • | Increase confidence in early design validation and designs iterations through template-guided simulation |
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| • | Enhance collaboration and communication between design teams and expert analysts to promote automation and reuse of CAE best practices across the extended enterprise. |
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| • | Gain greater confidence and insight into design performance. Template guided analysis ensures proper modeling, simulation inputs, materials data, and CAE best practices are being followed by CAD users |
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| • | Control data access and share data with other designers, engineers, managers and executives across the enterprise. |
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Retrieve SimEnterprise Templates via built-in SimManager access
Select project and required geometry input from Pro/ENGINEER Part
Post Process Results directly in Pro/ENGINEER | | | Using Simulation Templates across the Enterprise| | | | • | Design Engineers and suppliers can retrieve project specific templates for expert guided structures and motion analysis on CAD geometry by connecting to SimManager | | | | | • | SimEnterpise Templates guide Designers user through steps for model set up; and selecting required geometry input from CAD geometry | | | | | • | Loads, boundary conditions, and material properties can be specified in template for assured accuracy | | | | | • | Easy to use, guided interface allows users with less CAE experience to execute CAE analysis automatically from CAD interface confidently | | | | | • | Post process structures and motion results directly within CAD system | | | | | • | Template results help drive smarter design decisions earlier in design stages | | | | | • | All results and associated data used for simulation are published into SimManager for traceability, data mining, and collaboration |
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What's New in SimDesigner R3 Template Client Edition for Pro/ENGINEER
SimDesigner Template Client Edition works in conjunction with MSC SimEnterprise solutions, and allows designers to execute CAE simulations through SimEnterprise and review results directly within their CAD environment.
Here are just a few of the new capabilities you will benefit from in SimDesigner R3 Template Client Edition:
- Expanded CAD System Support to Include:
- Execute SimXpert templates for structural and motion analyses
- Allows designers with little FEA or Dynamics knowledge to utilize CAE simulation early in design cycle to enhance and optimize their designs.
- Establish enterprise wide CAE best-practices through controlled & repeatable processes.
- Connect to SimManager for simulation data management.
- Maintain data pedigree and review audit trail of all simulation data.
- Share data with other designers, engineers, managers and executives with controlled data access.
- Ability to rerun templates using previously defined inputs.
- Post-process simulation results within CAD environment
Workbench Edition
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"A substantial amount of time and money was saved by determining early on the weak areas in the initial design which would not meet spec."
– Stephen Doncov, ASC Incorporated |
| | | Gaining a Competitive Advantage with SimDesignerChanges made late in the design cycle can increase costs by several orders of magnitude and significantly delay time-to-market. What if design engineers could perform accurate simulation analysis directly within the CAD environment to detect flaws very early in the design process?
Bringing Simulation Earlier into the Design Process
SimDesigner Workbench Edition from MSC Software provides a intuitive, CAD-embedded simulation suite of workbenches for conducting nonlinear and linear structures, thermal, and motion analysis. SimDesigner’s CAD embedded analysis tools provide design engineers with built-in multidisciplinary simulation capabilities for analyzing parts and assemblies directly from within their CAD environment. This product is available for CATIA V5.
Created for Design Engineers
SimDesigner Workbench Edition gives design engineers scaleable, easy-to-learn simulation tools within the CAD environment that increase first pass simulations, empower more what-if scenarios, and identify design flaws earlier.
This feature-rich suite of tools available for CATIA V5 includes:
- Structures workbench, both linear and nonlinear
- Motion workbench
- Thermal workbench
- Crash workbench
- Enterprise Gateways to compute resources such as Nastran, Marc, and LS-Dyna
- Integration with SimManager for simulation data management and collaboration
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"The integration of SimDesigner within CATIA V5 was the important factor in our decision to purchase MSC.Software products. We were looking for a tool which could easily be learned and used by our design engineers -- not only by CAE-specialists".
– Pavel Brostik, Design Engineer, Hella Autotechnik s.r.o. |
| | | Break Through with Superior Design BenefitsSimDesigner Workbench Edition is fully integrated within the CAD process, empowering design engineers to increase in-process simulation and explore design alternatives earlier in the development cycle. The integrated simulation workbenches and gateways enable design engineers to conduct robust, multi-discipline simulation studies and then share the models, inputs, and results across the organization, improving collaboration between design engineers and analysts.
Speeds Time-to-Market and Innovation
SimDesigner Workbench Edition is fully integrated within the CAD process, empowering users to conduct in-process simulation and explore design alternatives earlier – enabling leading-edge innovative designs and rapidly accelerating design cycles.
Reduces Development Costs
Design engineers gain valuable insight into product performance characteristics and can perform additional design comparisons earlier in development cycles. A series of virtual prototypes can be investigated during early stages of the design process, reducing physical test costs.
Improves Product Quality
SimDesigner Workbench Edition empowers more real-life, early simulation studies – reducing design flaws, warranty costs, and field failures.
Enables Better Collaboration
SimDesigner Workbench Edition provides model reuse and data interoperability Simulation design and analysis. CAE specialists can focus their time on more complex analyses while design engineers conduct upfront simulation studies to improve designs.
Improves Productivity and Consistency
SimDesigner Workbench Edition connects to SimManager providing a process for publishing, managing, and retrieving simulation pedigree generated from repeated analysis runs within the CAD environment. No more wasted time searching for or recreating simulation inputs and data.
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Motion Workbench
Structures Workbench
Thermal Workbench
Crash Workbench
Composites Add-on Module | | | Designer-Friendly Tools with Corporate CollaborationSimDesigner Workbench Edition offers integrated, easy-to-use workbenches to enable users to perform multi-discipline simulation studies on fully associative models without leaving the CAD environment.
For example, design engineers can use the Motion workbench to investigate multi-body dynamics while assessing loads and forces in the assembly. The loads generated from motion analysis can subsequently be transferred and applied to a flexible body structural simulation for examining stresses during motion simulation. Engineers never have to leave the SimDesigner Workbench Edition environment to perform these analyses – and no time-consuming data conversion is required. This up-front analysis leads to faster product performance decisions and helps identify design flaws earlier.
Motion Workbench - Enables designers to easily perform multi-body dynamics simulation on rigid and flexible bodies
- Powered by Adams, the worldwide standard in multi-body motion simulation
- Generates loads and forces that can subsequently be transferred and used for structural analysis studies
Structures Workbench - Powered by MD Nastran, the world's leading simulation and finite element analysis product
- Includes both linear and nonlinear generative analysis
- Supports linear static, normal modes, and dynamic analyses, as well as nonlinear large deformation, contact, and material plasticity analyses in one common simulation environment
Thermal Workbench - Enables users to easily and cost-effectively perform generative heat transfer studies
- Capabilities include steady-state or transient thermo-mechanical analysis
- Powered by Nastran and Marc (link), the most comprehensive and advanced nonlinear finite element analysis (FEA) solution on the market
Crash Workbench - Enables design engineers to investigate highly nonlinear, time-dependent problems within the CATIA V5 environment
- Design engineers can perform drop test analysis, simulating the effects of impact and damage that occur in real-life situations
- Includes an integrated gateway to LS-DYNA for more complex analyses and data-sharing with analysts
Composites Add-on Module - Integrates with SimDesigner Structures Workbench
- Utilizes the power of MD Nastran to accurately predict ply-based stresses and strains
- Specify the laminate characteristics such as material properties, fiber orientation, and thickness of each lamina in the composite lay-up
Enterprise Gateways – Leverage Existing Virtual Product Development Investments
By exporting run-ready solver input files to enterprise compute resources such as Nastran, Marc, and LS-DYNA, SimDesigner Workbench Edition facilitates a higher level of collaboration and communication between design engineers and analysts across the enterprise. Analysts can pick up where design engineers leave off, without any data translation or need to recreate the same analyses.
Enterprise Gateways enable bi-directional (deck export, job submission and results import), cross-enterprise access to existing simulation resources.
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What's New in SimDesigner R3 Workbench Edition for CATIA V5R17 & V5R18
SimDesigner Workbench Edition for CATIA offers the most extensive suite of CAE capabilities for the CATIA V5 CAD environment. Fully embedded inside V5, the SimDesigner workbenches, powered by MD Nastran and MSC ADAMS, provide a range of solutions for linear and nonlinear analysis, and motion simulation on parts and assemblies.
With R3, SimDesigner provides new capabilities and enhancements to further extend performance, multidisciplinary analysis, ease-of-use, and enterprise collaboration.
The following enhancements are new for MSC SimDesigner R3 Workbench Edition for CATIA V5:
Structures Workbench
- Nastran solver updated to MD Nastran R3
- Support CATIA Virtual Bolt for nonlinear solutions
- Ability to preview animation of rigid body motion for nonlinear solutions when defining motion by position.
- Support added to control rigid body movement by force.
- Body contact definition process changed to allow better case management through referencing
- New subcase manager provides a graphical representation of modeling subcases to better understand which loads and restraints belong to each subcase.
- Multi-step analysis support
- Ability to enforce parabolic mesh through admin lockable CATSetting.
- New Composites module available from the R3 release (must be purchased separately).
Motion Workbench
- Support for CATIA flexible subassemblies allows users to model moving parts and joints within flexible subassemblies.
- Ability to define global axes on direction or vector definitions within various motion workbench objects.
- Improved export to ADAMS/View so that internal shell data used for contact definition matches slider setting in Mechanism Properties.
