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

• 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

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

• 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

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.

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

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

• 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

• 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

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

• 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

• 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.

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.

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

• 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.

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.

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 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

Accelerate tire innovation with fast predictions of key tire performances

• 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