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This bookshelf provides short standalone modules (5-10 min each). Easily find answers you need while completing a 3DEXPERIENCE simulation training for SOLIDWORKS users.

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This course is an introduction to structural and thermal simulations for engineers and designers with the Linear Structural Validation app on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform. It teaches you how to solve linear structural analyses in preparation for evaluating the performance of products during the product development stage.

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This course teaches you how to view lightweight simulation data with the Physics Simulation Review widget in the 3DEXPERIENCE platform dashboard interface. If the native apps user has generated experience content, the reviewer will be able to browse: the mesh, material assignments, scenario content (such as loads and restraints), and results. Results display can include contour plots, streamlines, sensors and charts. You can animate these lightweight results and change way objects in the plots are displayed.

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An accurate means to correlate the response of the mathematical model for structural simulation to test data is important, to modeling real world performance of assemblies. This course will introduce optimization methods in the Material Calibration app used to determine optimized material values, check the goodness of fit and exported materials for use in Abaqus or 3DEXPERIENCE structural simulation.

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The SIMULIA Opera Quench solvers are designed specifically for quench modelling of superconducting coils as the coils become resistive. This course will introduce quench and superconductivity technology. The Opera Quench Thermal and Quench Multiphysics solvers, the material data and analysis options will be covered.

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Properly modeling the inelastic behavior of materials is very important when evaluating the performance of a design in critical loading situations. This course provides a brief overview of the inelastic behavior observed in metals and the basic concepts of plasticity theory. The course shows Abaqus users how to model various forms of metal plasticity using a combination of examples and workshops to demonstrate the material models and the type of experimental data necessary to calibrate them. The assumptions and limitations of the various plasticity and creep models are also discussed.

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Design improvement studies allow engineers to find the best design while varying design parameters. Using the Parametric Design Study Essentials or Parametric Design Study app, you can easily author, monitor and postprocess a parametric design improvement study based on an analysis case for a single physics simulation object or a geometrical model. Physics simulations from which the user initiates a study can be either: structural analysis case or durability analysis case.

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This course describes the set of tools provided by PowerDELTA to edit CAD/Mesh data, in order to obtain watertight meshes as required by PowerFLOW. Each tool is explained within the context of the recommended geometry preparation process.

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This two day course covers Opera’s capabilities for designing and simulating magnet technology applications, typically for MRI and NMR magnet systems, particle accelerator magnets, electron beam lithography and microscopy, spectroscopy, ion implanters and others. Throughout this advanced course you will extend your knowledge of simulations using Opera, both 2d and 3d, to modeling of magnets in various applications and postprocessing of the results.

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This course is an introduction to results visualization and postprocessing with the Physics Results Explorer app on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform. This allows designers and engineers to view and evaluate simulation results from disciplines such as structures (including composites) and fluids.

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Canray Transportation boosts sustainability with the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, delivering right-first-time rail interiors using CATIA, ENOVIA, DELMIA and SIMULIA.

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The ePlane Company uses the 3DEXPERIENCE platform’s cloud-based, integrated environment to develop an eVTOL aircraft for urban air mobility built specifically for the challenges of urban traffic.

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Discover how Sujan Contitech uses the 3DEXPERIENCE platform and MODSIM to innovate anti-vibration components and reduce product design cycles by 20%.

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VAERIDION uses Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE to accelerate electric aircraft design, certification, and development of its zero-emission Microliner.

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BIAD uses MODSIM to set new benchmarks in smart hospital architecture, improving patient experience and processes with advanced design and simulation.

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The 3DEXPERIENCE platform supports the India-based company in engineering over 100 unique intellectual property breakthroughs across robotics, aerospace and advanced materials.

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Kobelco Construction Machinery leverages the Single Source for Speed and Integrated Heavy Machinery solutions to optimize design processes and improve access to information across its organization.

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UniSQ researchers use Cleared to Operate and Co-Design to Target solutions to digitally transform composite materials' repair in aircraft.

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Supported by the Keep Them Operating industry solution experience on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, NIAR will take the B-1 Lancer aircraft completely apart, scan every single structural element and digitally reassemble the aircraft to create virtual twins for future sustainment activities.

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Finish turnkey solutions provider Premekon adopted the 3DEXPERIENCE platform to develop more sustainable products more efficiently.

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Innovative training powered by augmented reality and virtual twin technology transforms infection prevention at Saint-Louis Hospital AP-HP.

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Discover how Otto Aviation will bring to market the world’s first transonic super-laminar aircraft.

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Validation is the currency of aerospace engineering. Through the AIAA High-Lift Prediction Workshop series and a 15-year NASA partnership on airframe noise, Exa’s high-speed LBM solvers proved they could handle the flows that traditional CFD cannot.

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How the Lattice-Boltzmann method became a CFD powerhouse — and how pushing it beyond its original limits is changing the way military aircraft are developed.

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We had the opportunity to interview David Martin, Senior Principal Engineer at Medtronic, at the 2025 SIMULIA EuroNorth Regional User Meeting (RUM) about his presentation: Role of Modelling & Simulation Tools in the Development of Transcatheter Heart Valve Devices at Medtronic | EURONORTH RUM 2025. Hear how Medtronic is using SIMULIA Abaqus’ structural simulation to aid in the development of live-saving transcatheter heart valves.

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Learn about the critical role of simulation-led engineering in advancing quantum computing beyond laboratory prototypes and how Dassault Systèmes’ MODSIM approach integrates modeling and simulation into the design process, enabling engineers to tackle complex, multiphysics challenges virtually. By adopting this methodology, the industry can accelerate innovation, reduce costs, and pave the way for scalable, practical quantum systems.

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Discover an overview of the recent enhancements within the Abaqus solvers and new 3DEXPERIENCE features from the latest 2026x releases.

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SIMULIA had the privilege of interviewing Norbert Schroeder of BMW at the EuroCentral 2025 SIMULIA Regional User Meeting about his presentation Lightweight Rollerbearing Seats: Investigation and Optimization with Simpack, Tosca and Abaqus.

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This blog explores the critical role of output filtering in Abaqus/Explicit and Abaqus/Viewer, emphasizing its importance in reducing noise and ensuring accurate interpretation of simulation data. It explains the challenges of aliasing, a phenomenon where insufficient sampling rates distort data, and provides practical solutions through runtime and post-processing filters. By mastering these techniques, engineers can achieve clean, reliable data that accurately reflects the physical behavior of their models, enabling sound design decisions.

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By integrating design and simulation, SIMULIA empowers automotive OEMs, startups, race teams and suppliers to innovate faster and more efficiently. Our solutions help you deliver the safe, comfortable and high-performance vehicles your customers expect.

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In this article, we show how simulation can enhance submarine hydrodynamic performance by optimizing efficiency, reducing drag, and analyzing acoustic effects and wake tracking. We demonstrate workflows in SIMULIA PowerFLOW for analyzing submarine hydrodynamics throughout development on the DARPA SUBOFF benchmark. We will show how hull drag and propeller performance can be analyzed both in isolation and installed, with excellent agreement between benchmark measurements and simulation data.

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In this latest installation of our Manatee series, let’s explore the transformative capabilities of Manatee, a critical tool that enables the management of magnetic noise & vibrations of electric machines and drives.

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SIMULIA is proud to announce our 2026 Champions! SIMULIA Champions are among our most passionate and talented users who work every day to share their expertise on simulation. We are already in the seventh year of the Champions program and are delighted to have more than 180 active SIMULIA Champions.

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Learn how MODSIM enables the development of modern undersea defense technology, using stealth design as an example of the benefits of a MODSIM approach.

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