Gaining a Competitive Advantage with SimDesigner
Changes 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
Applications
Designer-Friendly Tools with Corporate Collaboration
SimDesigner 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 R2, 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
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.
Break Through with Superior Design Benefits
SimDesigner 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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