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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 into the Early Design Process SimDesigner Enterprise from MSC.Software provides an intuitive, CAD-embedded simulation suite that enables design engineers and engineering teams to perform repeatable, fully-documented simulation studies much earlier in the design process. Product teams across the extended enterprise can now create and collaborate on product designs and performance simulations, allowing manufacturers to deliver higher quality, innovative new products in a shorter timeframe and for less cost.
Created for the Design Engineer SimDesigner Enterprise 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 includes: · Integration with CATIA V5 mechanical CAD software · Multi-discipline simulation workbenches o Structures workbench, both linear and nonlinear o Motion workbench o Thermal workbench o Crash workbench
· Enterprise Gateways to compute resources such as MSC Nastran, Marc, and LS-DYNA · Data management & collaboration with integration with SimManager Break Through with Superior Design Benefits MSC SimDesigner Enterprise 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 organisation, improving collaboration between design engineers and analysts.
Speeds Time-to-Market and Innovation SimDesigner Enterprise 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 Enterprise empowers more real-life, early simulation studies - reducing design flaws, warranty costs, and field failures.
Enables Better Collaboration SimDesigner Enterprise provides model reuse and data interoperability between 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 Enterprise handles and collaboratively stores the simulation pedigree generated from repeated analysis runs. No more wasted time searching for or recreating simulation inputs and data.
Explore the multi-discipline workbenches and other capabilities integrated within SimDesigner Enterprise. Designer-Friendly Tools with Corporate Collaboration MSC SimDesigner Enterprise 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 Enterprise 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
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• Powered by MSC 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
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• Enables users to easily and cost-effectively perform generative heat transfer studies
• Capabilities include steady-state or transient thermo-mechanical analysis
• Powered by MSC Nastran and Marc, the most comprehensive and advanced nonlinear finite element analysis (FEA) solution on the market
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• 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
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Enterprise Gateways – Leverage Existing Virtual Product Development Investments
By exporting run-ready solver input files to enterprise compute resources such as MSC Nastran, Marc, and LS-DYNA, SimDesigner Enterprise 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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