What's New in 3DEXPERIENCE SIMULIA

Realistic simulation of the additive manufacturing process enables companies to optimize part designs and process parameters for additive manufacturing

The Additive Manufacturing Analysis Engineer role allows you to:

• Increase dimensional accuracy of parts designed for additive manufacturing
• Minimize print time and material usage
• Eliminate unnecessary and costly physical test prints
• Reduce product development time with seamless integration between design, simulation and manufacturing

Provide advanced process simulation capability for Additive Manufacturing that accurately captures the complex multiphysics behind part distortions

• Seamless integration to Design and Manufacturing.
• Automatically applies settings to conform to additive manufacturing simulation best practices.
• Process-level, Part-level and Build-level simulations in a single environment for metals or polymers.
• Reduce residual stress and distortion in completed part

Develop environmental control systems and energy-efficient cabin designs that ensure superior thermal comfort and improve the overall passenger experience

The Aerospace Cabin Thermal Engineer role allows you to:

• Quickly evaluate the performance of environmental control systems in terms of cabin temperature, humidity, air quality control, and pressurization
• Ensure a comfortable microclimate within the cabin while optimizing the seating configurations
• Support the architectural design of HVAC layouts working with HVAC engineers
• Offer a broad range of innovative cabin customizations for airline companies
• Reduce expensive and challenging physical tests

Quickly develop designs for HVAC and ECS systems that minimize energy consumption, optimize air flow and duct layout, and maximize occupant thermal comfort

The Aerospace HVAC and ECS Engineer role allows you to:

• Deliver innovative and safe ECS and HVAC systems that provide the required air supply, thermal control and cabin pressurization
• Decrease the amount of expensive physical testing and the number of design iterations by performing detailed simulation of ECS and HVAC systems
• Reduce development costs and time to mark

Connect SIMULIA products with 3DEXPERIENCE and leverage the best capabilities of each for Structures, Multibody, Electromagnetic, and Fluids & Acoustics Simulation

• Run Abaqus/CAE, XFlow, PowerFLOW (coming soon), Simpack, Wave6, and CST Studio Suite in a “connected” mode, leveraging 3DEXPERIENCE capabilities for collaboration , visualization, version control and knowledge capture.
• Configure, submit and monitor simulation jobs from 3DEXPERIENCE.
• Manage existing models on 3DEXPERIENCE and share results with all stakeholders on the platform

Create complex finite element assemblies requiring automated modeling techniques and the collaborative efforts of several engineering teams

• Collaborative preparation of large-scale, multi-level assemblies leveraging multiple teams and locations.
• Full traceability of the simulation model is ensured by the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform.
• Automatic generation of simulation models via ‘fire and forget’ execution on HPC.
• Less time spent looking for geometry, part assembly information, fastener data, etc. due to the collaborative nature of 3DEXPERIENCE.

Perform detailed simulation of composite structures for stiffness, strength, manufacturability, and damage tolerance, while optimizing weight and performance

The Composite Structures Analysis Engineer role allows you to:

• Provide detailed structural validation from coupon level to sub-system level for metal and composite structures
• Minimize weight to meet vehicle range and performance targets
• Increase certification confidence in early and detailed design phases
• Perform detailed material and nonlinear analyses, as well as linear statics, frequency, buckling, linear dynamics, and implicit/explicit simulation
• Reduce expensive and challenging physical tests

Perform optimized and robust composites designs to maintain strength rating while optimizing weight and thereby reducing cost of manufacturing and prototyping

• Use advance surface modeling tools to create composites data on complex surfaces
• Create fully associative design to handle changes, modifications and updates quickly and automatically
• Design in context of assemblies
• Define and manage complete detailed stacking and generate plies from the conceptual design
• Generate conceptual solids or IML surfaces for early integration in the mockup
• Perform advanced producibility analysis with fiber simulation for hand layup and fiber placement
• Integrate a quality-rules-based approach for robust design and control of composites data
• Prepare drawing-based ply books with ease and manage updates and changes automatically
• Support structural simulations at the conceptual and detailed design phases to validate strength, stiffness and dynamics of the composite designs, and perform weight optimization
• Reduce cost of prototyping, leading to an accelerated time to market

Model and validate composite designs for stiffness, strength, and performance requirements, to reduce costs in composite structure prototypes and testing

The Composite Structures Performance Engineer role allows you to:

• Validate composite design with associated strength criteria
• Efficiently design ply layup and material orientation to achieve required stiffness and strength while optimizing weight
• Model composite components with fundamental static, frequency, and buckling simulation
• Reduce cost of prototyping and manufacturing via early-phase design simulation to reduce time for composite product delivery

Validate the structural integrity of products made of composite materials by directly reusing composite properties defined by the designer

• Seamless integration with CATIA Composite tools.
• Associativity with design allows quick iterations on the composite layup during the Preliminary Design stage (grid-based design, virtual stacking).
• Dedicated tools allowing composite simulation experts to run complex non-linear simulations within the fully immersive, intuitive, 3DEXPERIENCE Platform.

Uses fatigue simulation to predict accurate fatigue lives ensuring complex engineering products are designed for durability

• Define fatigue loading and attributes and predict number of repeats to failure.
• Calculates fatigue lives producing contour plots to reveal fatigue lives and crack sites.
• Integration with Structural and Mechanical Scenario creation.
• Automated execution chaining of Structural (Abaqus) and Durability (fe-safe) analyses.

Connect CST Studio Suite with 3DEXPERIENCE and leverage the best capabilities of each for Electromagnetics Simulation

• Setup a collaborative space, add people and everyone works on the same set of data; it’s synchronized and version controlled as you work.
• Lightweight visualization of model, mesh, scenario and results; help decision makers experience results and reduce time generating reports.
• Direct access to geometry.
• Web-based portal to submit and monitor CST Studio Suite jobs from anywhere.
• Run CST Studio Suite* in a “connected” mode, leveraging 3DEXPERIENCE.
• Capabilities for collaboration, visualization, version control and knowledge capture.
• Supports all CST Studio Suite* capabilities including continued openness to run any custom plug-ins or scripts.
• Configure, submit and monitor CST Studio Suite Solvers from 3DEXPERIENCE.

*Licensed Separately

Create and manage complex assembly models requiring automated modeling techniques and the collaborative efforts of several engineering teams

• Collaborative tool to build large-scale, multi-level assemblies leveraging multiple teams and locations.
• Provide Product Development, Mechanical, Design, and Simulation Engineers the expert tools needed to prepare advanced simulations.
• Automatic generation of high quality simulation models via ‘fire and forget’ execution on HPC.
• Less time spent looking for geometry, part assembly information, fastener data, etc. thanks to the collaborative nature of 3DEXPERIENCE.

A Simulation Role for Engineers who perform routine fluid calculations to guide iterative design modifications

• Complete designer-level Fluids Simulation does not require extensive specialist-level simulation knowledge or experience.
• Intuitive interface utilizing a dedicated User Assistant for fluids set-up requires minimal simulation knowledge.
• Improve designs to optimize flow distribution, minimize pressure loss and turbulence.

Perform fluid flow and heat transfer simulations, leading to better quality designs while avoiding manufacturing issues

The Fluid Dynamics Engineer Role allows you to:

• Efficiently explore fluid flow and thermal performance design alternatives to accelerate product innovation
• Leverage full integration with CAD and PLM for concurrent, simulation-driven product development
• Easily predict steady-state and long-transient flow and thermal behavior of products with the designer-centric guided interface
• Collaborate with project stakeholders around fluid flow simulation results for informed decisions
• Include local compute using up to 8 cores -- with additional compute capacity also available

Power cardiovascular innovation with the Living Heart on the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform for Life Sciences

• Understand baseline cardiac behavior with human heart simulations.
• Interactively update model parameters to study disease states and explore treatment options.
• Evaluate and improve cardiovascular devices (stents, artificial valves, etc.) within the beating heart.
• Assess treatment outcomes and make device decision by including growth and remodeling effects.
• Develop innovative cardiovascular devices that are ever more reliable, easier to deploy, and effective for much longer periods of time.
• Improve outcomes of clinical studies and accelerate go-to-market with greater confidence in your devices.

Increase fidelity of simulations by calibrating advanced material models from physical or virtual test data

The Material Calibration Engineer role provides:

• Calibration of advanced material models from physical or virtual test data to enable high fidelity simulation
• Support for a broad range of materials including metals, polymers, and composites
• An intuitive user experience that is accessible to non-experts
• Built-in optimization algorithms to ensure accurate representation of test data
• The ability to share calibrated material models across the enterprise

Use advanced finite element simulation techniques to understand and validate complex engineering problems

• Provide Product Development and Mechanical Engineers the expert tools needed to perform advanced simulations using best-in-class Abaqus simulation technology.
• Less time spent looking for geometry, part assembly information, fastener data, etc. thanks to the collaborative nature of 3DEXPERIENCE.
• Improve designs at risk for resonance and other dynamic effects.
• Linear load cases and multiple analysis cases for analyzing the response to a wide range of loading conditions.
• Combine nonlinear base state with dynamic response for improved vibration prediction.

Easy collaboration and data share with Simpack on the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform for Multibody Simulation.

• Setup a collaborative space, add people and everyone works on the same set of data; it’s synchronized as you work
• Lightweight visualization of results; help decision makers experience results and reduce time generating reports
• Easy feedback between simulation experts and designers on impact of design changes
• Run Simpack* in a “connected” mode, leveraging 3DEXPERIENCE capabilities for collaboration , visualization and knowledge capture.
• Supports all Simpack* capabilities including continued openness to run any custom plug-ins or scripts

*Licensed Separately

Integrate all of your analysis tools and your company’s best practices into re-usable, deployable processes to explore the design space and make informed decisions

• Scalable user experience, with traceability and version control for as-is workflows and capabilities to add automation, design exploration or capture best-practices.
• Answer "what if?" questions and explore your design space to help improve product performance and reliability while reducing cost.
• Openness to connect any simulation tools to 3DEXPERIENCE.
• End-to-end traceability to trace from the results and the applications used back to the original design inputs, allowing you to understand the context of your data.
• Capture, storage and re-use of simulation processes and best practices ensures that the maximum value can be extracted from key company I.P.

Drive innovation by exploring multiple alternatives across the complete range of operating scenarios, all to make better decisions and find optimal designs

The Multidisciplinary Optimization Engineer role allows you to:

• Investigate the relationships between design parameters and their influence on performance objectives, to improve the efficiency of design exploration
• Systematically explore variations of design parameters through optimization, to identify the best design that satisfies requirements
• Assess the influence of variability to reduce the probability of design failures
• Gain comprehensive insight into the entire design space with visualization tools that enable trade-off across conflicting objectives
• Enable intelligent decision-making collaboratively across the organization

Enable rapid development of complex multiphysics, multiscale analyses

• Best-in-Class Multiphysics, Multiscale technology leveraging the DS ecosystem.
• Revolutionary user experience with open environment for system/subsystem/multiscale simulations.
• Review unified experiment results to make innovative design decisions.
• Enhanced co-simulation execution experience.
• Best-in-class user experience with easy drag-and-drop options.
• Use of Modelica compliant component models ensures Intellectual Property (IP) capture for re-use.

Enable rapid development of complex multiphysics, multiscale analyses

The Multidiscipline Performance Engineer role allows you to:

• Couple 3D models together to capture the interaction of multiple physics in in-silico experiments
• Couple Logical (0D) and Physical (3D) models of plant and controller to capture key behaviors across multiple scales
• Utilize a unique web environment for assembly and execution of multi-physics, multiscale systems
• Track the lifecycle of experiment artifacts with full traceability

Evaluate and improve plastic part and mold tooling designs by simulating the filling and packing process and the mold's cooling system

• Evaluate effectiveness of mold cooling system designs
• Integration with CATIA Mold & Tooling Design for automatic detection of injection locations, cooling systems, injection system, cavities
• Simple, easy to use interface with a guided simulation assistant to minimize the learning curve
• Predicts common molding defects including, weld-lines, sink marks, air traps and incomplete filling (short shots)
• Predicts required injection pressures and tool clamping forces, enabling selection of an appropriate injection molding machine

Validate and optimize plastic part and mold tooling designs by simulating the filling, packing, warpage & mold cooling early in the product development process

The Plastic Injection Engineer role allows you to:

• Virtually test the performance of plastic part and mold tooling designs with an intuitive, guided simulation assistant that minimizes the learning curve
• Cover the needs for all industries, all key workflows, and all user personas with a single role
• Predict common molding defects including: weld-lines, sink marks, air traps, and incomplete filling (short shots)
• Evaluate the effectiveness of mold cooling system designs
• Apply advanced structural capabilities available in the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform, such as  non-linear multi-scale material modeling, directly on a common model
• Leverage process automation, design of experiments, and advanced optimization tools available in the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform

Performing detailed simulations on different product and packaging designs to accelerate performance-cost trade off and reduce time to market

The Product and Packaging Analysis Engineer role allows you to:

• Simulate how a new package design will behave at every stage of its lifecycle, lowering costs
• Ensure the package delivers the desired consumer experience and drive consumer to place the product in their shopping basket
• Reduce development lead-time cost and improve quality and reliability
• Detect and resolve problems early in the design process
• Capture and share simulation IP for fast collaborative decisions

Improve decision-making for all users by providing search and re-play access to captured simulation best-practices to study performance

• Realistic Insight for Everyone
  • Give your products an added competitive edge with simulation experiences that offer realistic insight throughout all phases of design.
  • Provide engineering and design insight, derived from specialist tools, to non-specialist users.
• Targeted User Experience
  • Empower all users to leverage your methods as quickly as possible with an interface that exposes what they need and nothing else.
• Use the Right Data
  • Understand the pedigree of the data used in your studies to make sure that you make decisions from the right data.

Facilitate collaborative decision making across the organization through the 3DDashboard to review, compare, and perform trade-offs between design alternatives

The Simulation Collaborator role allows you to:

• Accelerate selection of the best designs by comparing performance metrics across alternatives and ranking designs based on requirements, using multi-criteria decision making methods
• Perform trade-offs between competing objectives and constraints
• Review, share and collaborate on geometry and simulation results, from anywhere, through a lightweight, browser-based widget
• Build your own simulation dashboard, with widgets to view all of your recent simulation content, for interactive review

A Simulation Extension Role for Analysts who create geometry for simulations using parametric or direct modeling techniques

• Feature-based, parametric modeling tools allowing quick iterations between Design and Simulation.
• New Direct Modeling tools enabling simulation specialists to rapidly create, modify or repair geometries without requiring any CAD expertise.
• Full compatibility with the other tools of the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform.

Provide the detailed essential mesh and assembly modeling, to reduce non-value added tasks, and build solver-ready finite element models timely and efficiently

The Simulation Model Build Engineer role allows you to:

• Provide structures modelling and assembly for T&M, A&D, and other strategic Industry process experiences
• Fully automate mid-surface extraction, mesh generation, and mesh re-generation
• Manage subassemblies and utilize automated assembly connections modeling
• Generate abstraction shapes for simulation associated to original design geometry
• Perform collaborative model management for building and sharing models particularly suited for large assemblies

Improve productivity and reduce time-consuming manual tasks by building and deploying automated simulation processes for all users in the organization

The Simulation Process Engineer role leverages simulation methods and provides access to key simulation tools and processes in multiple ways, including:  

• Efficient Drag & Drop simulation process authoring. Capture once, execute many times to increase engineering productivity
• Unique integration with native 3DEXPERIENCE geometry and parameters to deliver seamless connection with design data and zero translation
• Tight coupling with native 3DXPERIENCE SIMULIA solvers to give straightforward access to robust simulation technology
• Democratization of simulation methods through custom web interfaces tuned for non-experts throughout an organization
• The ability to trace and understand the origin and pedigree of data used in simulation studies to increase certification confidence

Use high-performance results visualization for efficient post-processing of very large simulation result data sets

• Provides results visualization for all physics simulations within the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform.
• Allows post-processing and visualization of very large models.
• Support results visualization of imported simulations including Abaqus ODB and Nastran OP2 formats.
• Enables the generation of lightweight simulation results content for rapid visualization using 3DPlay app using 3DEXPERIENCE or tablet devices.
• Utilization of HPC resources to render large models resulting in state-of-the-art performance.

Use finite element techniques to assess the structural integrity of steel structures such as ships, buildings and bridges subject to a wide range of loading conditions

• Automated modeling for steel structure design
• Full access to 1D/2D/3D modeling & meshing
• Multistep structural scenarios including: Static, Frequency, Thermal, Buckling, Modal Dynamics
• Large model 3D visualization/post-processing and XY plotting
• Automatic mesh generation, including mesh export for Abaqus or Nastran formats
• High-performance results post-processing to interpret and understand product behavior

Engineer and validate the steel structure design, from preliminary to detail, to minimize costs and engineering time, while reducing weight

The Steel Structures Engineer for Marine and Offshore role allows you to:

• Support full parametric design with various construction elements
• Perform early estimation of preliminary design for manufacturing planning in advance
• Experience robust and flexible detail design piece parts generation from basic design
• Perform productive design without errors and rework
• Support tight and seamless integration with manufacturing
• Generate various classification drawings and production drawings with symbolic and mechanical representations
• Efficiently develop and validate alternate design scenarios while complying with customer requirements

Enables comprehensive structural simulations covering statics, dynamics, vibration, thermal, and fatigue across a broad range of industrial applications

Structural Analysis Engineer is a comprehensive role to perform structural integrity assessment of any type of product, providing:

• Multiple structural analyses, including static or quasi static, frequency, buckling, mode-based steady-state or transient dynamic, random response, and non-linear dynamic
• Thermal analyses or sequential thermal-stress analyses (both transient or steady state)
• Advanced capability from meshing, with possible automated creation, scenario definition (up to thousands of loadcases), execution, results visualization, and report generation.
• Fatigue simulation that can predict accurate fatigue lives to ensure complex engineering products are designed for durability, and extend ordinary stress analysis to provide estimates of the lifecycle for components subjected to cyclic loads.

An intuitive Design Simulation solution providing efficient linear analysis for product designers and engineers

• Seamless integration and common user experience between CAD, PLM, and CAE with the 3DEXPERIENCE platform for unique Product Development experience
• Smart applications focused on intuitiveness to remove the guesswork from product design
• Provide fast insight and direction to answer key performance questions for product innovation
• Intuitive guided workflow including: Linear Static, Buckling, Frequency and steady state Thermal

Accelerate product design with efficient evaluation of stress, strain, natural frequency and temperature in a guided environment

The Structural Designer role allows you to:

• Intuitively assess the performance of products under linear static conditions and guide the overall design process
• Quickly evaluate the strength and stiffness of components for informed what-if design scenarios
• Use a unique guided workflow process that enables any designer to rapidly determine product performance
• Easily and efficiently test product designs with automated modeling and ability to control accuracy vs compute time
• Include local compute up to 4 cores

A comprehensive linear structural analysis solution for product designers and engineers

• Provide Design Engineers powerful and intuitive tools needed to perform linear structural simulations during the design process
• Delivers unique design workflow in 3DEXPERIENCE with an access to robust simulation technology within an intuitive interface
• Enables high performance results visualization for a robust post processing process
• Guided Workflow for Linear Static, Frequency, Buckling, Steady State Thermal, Harmonic and Modal Dynamic analysis types

Provide design engineers powerful and intuitive tools needed to perform linear structural simulations during the design process

The Structural Engineer role allows you to:

• Test structural performance with a unique guided Workflow for Linear Static, Frequency, Buckling, Steady State Thermal, Harmonic and Modal Dynamic analysis types
• Easily assess large assembly performance with intuitive contact definition and powerful contact detection capability
• Evaluate structural KPIS of any geometry type with high quality meshing including solid, shell and beam elements with automatic mesh generation
• Enable high performance results visualization, particularly for very large models
• Include local compute up to 4 cores

Connect Abaqus/CAE with 3DEXPERIENCE and leverage the best capabilities of each for Structures Simulation

• Run Abaqus/CAE* in a “connected” mode, leveraging 3DEXPERIENCE capabilities for collaboration , visualization, version control and knowledge capture.
• Supports all Abaqus/CAE* capabilities including continued openness to run any custom plug-ins or script.
• Configure, submit and monitor Abaqus Solvers from 3DEXPERIENCE.
• Run Abaqus On Cloud using burst compute resources.

*Licensed Separately

Use advanced finite element simulation techniques to understand and validate complex engineering problems

• Provide Product Development and Mechanical Engineers the expert tools needed to perform advanced simulations using best-in-class Abaqus simulation technology.
• Less time spent looking for geometry, part assembly information, fastener data, etc. thanks to the collaborative nature of 3DEXPERIENCE.
• Improve designs at risk for resonance and other dynamic effects.
• Linear load cases and multiple analysis cases for analyzing the response to a wide range of loading conditions.
• Combine nonlinear base state with dynamic response for improved vibration prediction.

Enables comprehensive structural simulations covering statics, implicit and explicit dynamics, acoustics across a broad range of industrial applications

Structural Mechanics Engineer is a comprehensive role to perform structural integrity assessment of any type of product, providing:

• Structural analyses (static or quasi-static, frequency, buckling, mode-based steady-state or transient dynamic, random response, non-linear dynamic)
• Thermal analyses or sequential thermal-stress analyses (transient or steady state)
• Advanced capability from meshing, with possible automated creation, model management, scenario definition, execution (tokens included), results visualization, and report generation
• Embedded tokens for running the analyses

Assess the structural performance of products in nonlinear static and dynamic environments for informed engineering decisions

The Structural Performance Engineer role allows you to:

• Provide product engineers powerful and intuitive tools needed to perform sophisticated structural simulations during the design process
• Experience efficient “what if” scenarios through seamless associativity/integration with geometry
• Use a unique engineering workflow with an access to robust simulation technology within an intuitive interface
• Work with multistep structural scenarios for product performance and quality testing during the product design process
• Accelerate structural performance simulation with unique automated model creation for large assemblies
• Enable high performance results visualization, particularly for very large models
• Include local compute up to 4 cores

Use simulation to assess the integrity of products under a wide range of loading conditions to guide decisions on product performance and quality

• Provide Product Development, Mechanical, Design, and Simulation Engineers the powerful and intuitive tools needed to perform sophisticated structural simulations
• Delivers access to sophisticated simulation technology within an  intuitive interface
• More time efficient looking for geometry, part or assembly information, fastener data, etc. thanks to the collaborative nature of 3DEXPERIENCE
• Offers multistep structural scenarios for product performance and quality testing during the product design process
• Enables very large model solution and high performance results visualization, particularly for very large models

Perform strength and deflection calculations under static conditions to validate product performance and life to guide design modifications

• Structural Simulation Designer users can experience product performance virtually so that they can make better-informed design decisions.
• The intuitive user experience makes simulation adoption possible for all design engineers..
• Collaboration is built into the underlying 3DEXPERIENCE Platform.

Achieve desired thermal performance and avoid failures due to overheating. Improve safety and reduce warranty related costs

The Thermal Engineer role allows you to:

• Efficiently simulate fluid flow and thermal performance of design alternatives to accelerate product innovation
• Explore and identify optimal cooling strategies (passive, active) to address smaller form factors that drive increased heat density
• Identify optimal sizing and placement of components (fans, vents, heat sinks) within packaging constraints
• Use accurate and validated results to ensure the product fulfills required electronic certification standards

Accelerate tire innovation with fast predictions of key tire performances

The Tire Analysis Engineer role allows you to:

• Predict key tire performances in the early stage of design
• Reduce expensive and challenging physical tests through proven predictive virtual tests
• Avoid software development costs by taking advantage of tire-specific integrated CAD-CAE solutions
• Explore design space and select the best tire lay-up
• Democratize simulations with simulation templates

Connect XFlow with 3DEXPERIENCE and leverage the best capabilities of each for Fluids Simulation.

• Setup a collaborative space, add people and everyone works on the same set of data; it’s synchronized and version controlled as you work
• Direct access to geometry
• Run XFlow* in a “connected” mode, leveraging 3DEXPERIENCE capabilities for collaboration , visualization, version control and knowledge capture.
• Supports all XFlow* capabilities including continued openness to run any custom plug-ins or scripts
• Configure, submit and monitor XFlow Solvers from 3DEXPERIENCE

*Licensed Separately