A Business Unit of The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation ACCESSING SOLUTIONS From Your Desktop

A Business Unit of The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation ACCESSING SOLUTIONS From Your Desktop CAE Partner Business Unit

A Business Unit of The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation ACCESSING SOLUTIONS From Your Desktop Bob Gilliver MSC/ARIES European Product Marketing and Support Manager

A Business Unit of The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation ACCESSING SOLUTIONS From Your Desktop oGeometry oFE Analysis oOptimization oMechanisms oPlastics oMSC/ARIES Positioning

A Business Unit of The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation ACCESSING SOLUTIONS From Your Desktop Geometry oFull function ACIS based modeler oConstraints lfull lpartial lnone oACIS data exchange lAutoCAD lBentley lIntegraph lHP

A Business Unit of The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation ACCESSING SOLUTIONS From Your Desktop Geometry Modify dimensions

A Business Unit of The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation ACCESSING SOLUTIONS From Your Desktop Geometry Modification by dimension Parametric relationships

A Business Unit of The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation ACCESSING SOLUTIONS From Your Desktop Geometry Complex solids l Skin operator l Sweep operator l Extensive blending and chamfering Region operator to sub-divide geometry l Map meshing l Load footprint areas l Symmetry

A Business Unit of The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation ACCESSING SOLUTIONS From Your Desktop MSC/ARIES Base - Assemblies Visualization Packaging l Clearance l Interference Mass properties

A Business Unit of The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation ACCESSING SOLUTIONS From Your Desktop MSC/ARIES Base - Mass Properties

A Business Unit of The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation ACCESSING SOLUTIONS From Your Desktop Geometry - Regioning

A Business Unit of The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation ACCESSING SOLUTIONS From Your Desktop Geometry - Regioning

A Business Unit of The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation ACCESSING SOLUTIONS From Your Desktop Geometry - Regioning

A Business Unit of The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation ACCESSING SOLUTIONS From Your Desktop Geometry - Regioning

A Business Unit of The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation ACCESSING SOLUTIONS From Your Desktop Pre Release Solids Shelling Shelling of solids to thin walled solids Per face (uniform) thickness control Face exclusion to create open solids Full Parametrics support Not supported l Spline faces (fillet, sweep, skin, spline segments in curve based primitives, extrude with draft )

A Business Unit of The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation ACCESSING SOLUTIONS From Your Desktop Analysis Of ACIS & Imported Geometry CADARIES

A Business Unit of The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation ACCESSING SOLUTIONS From Your Desktop Geometry Interface - ACIS Support for ACIS sat (ASCII) and sab (binary) file formats Allows bi-directional exchange of solids, surface and wireframe Currently the most reliable solids data exchange format Transfers geometry only l No feature or history information

A Business Unit of The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation ACCESSING SOLUTIONS From Your Desktop Geometry Interface - Autocad Import

A Business Unit of The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation ACCESSING SOLUTIONS From Your Desktop Geometry Interface - Autocad Import

A Business Unit of The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation ACCESSING SOLUTIONS From Your Desktop Geometry Interface - Autocad Import Lin. Static Error Contours

A Business Unit of The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation ACCESSING SOLUTIONS From Your Desktop Geometry Interface - Autocad Export

A Business Unit of The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation ACCESSING SOLUTIONS From Your Desktop Geometry Interface - IGES Import Supports l Wireframe u Point, line, arc, composite curve, spline (112,126), conics (104), copious data (106) l Surface u Untrimmed (118, 120, 122, 128) u Trimmed (144) l Solid u Solid BREP (186, 514, 510, 508, 504, 502,)

A Business Unit of The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation ACCESSING SOLUTIONS From Your Desktop Geometry Interface - IGES Export Supports l Wireframe u Point, line, arc, composite curve, spline (112,126), conics (104) l Solid/surface u Decomposed to precise wireframe BREP u Decomposed to surface collection (trimmed or untrimmed - 128, 142, 144) l Text l Hidden line removal l Silhouette edge generation

A Business Unit of The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation ACCESSING SOLUTIONS From Your Desktop Geometry Interface - DXF Import Wireframe l Point, line, arc, polyline Text

A Business Unit of The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation ACCESSING SOLUTIONS From Your Desktop Geometry Interface - DXF Export Supports l Wireframe u Point, line, arc, composite curve, spline l Solid/surface u Decomposed to precise wireframe BREP l Text l Hidden line removal l Silhouette edge generation

A Business Unit of The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation ACCESSING SOLUTIONS From Your Desktop Geometry Interfaces - STEP, VDAFS PDES/STEP AP203 l Import and export of solid/surface/wireframe data VDAFS l Import and export of surface/wireframe data l Data format that emphasizes surface transfer l Used predominantly by European automotive industry

A Business Unit of The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation ACCESSING SOLUTIONS From Your Desktop Geometry Interfaces -Stereolithography Translates solids into standard stl format Rapid manufacture for physical part prototyping

A Business Unit of The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation ACCESSING SOLUTIONS From Your Desktop oGeometry oFE Analysis oOptimization oMechanisms oPlastics oMSC/ARIES Positioning

A Business Unit of The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation ACCESSING SOLUTIONS From Your Desktop LBCs applied to geometry or to nodes & elements Supported loads l Force, moment, pressure l Gravity l Velocity u Translational u Rotational l Acceleration u Translational Load and Boundary Conditions

A Business Unit of The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation ACCESSING SOLUTIONS From Your Desktop Constant or functional varying magnitude Geometry based load and boundary conditions survive geometry change Load and Boundary Conditions

A Business Unit of The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation ACCESSING SOLUTIONS From Your Desktop Load and Boundary Conditions Direction control for load/boundary conditions l XYZ l Radial l Tangential

A Business Unit of The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation ACCESSING SOLUTIONS From Your Desktop Load and Boundary Conditions Load case combination (5 * load_1) + (3 * load_2)

A Business Unit of The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation ACCESSING SOLUTIONS From Your Desktop oAutomeshing technology lEdges--1D elements (beam, gap, rigid, spring) lSurfaces--quad dominant or all trias lVolumes--tets only oMap meshing for surfaces and volumes l3/4 side surfaces, 5/6 face volumes lComposite edge support FE Meshing

A Business Unit of The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation ACCESSING SOLUTIONS From Your Desktop Auto Meshing Solid Element Automesh

A Business Unit of The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation ACCESSING SOLUTIONS From Your Desktop FE Meshing Adaptive mesh refinement l Automatic mesh refinement to optimize mesh density l Use with automatically generated h or p meshes l Global or local refinement l New mesh density based on current error versus target error Reduces mesh density related errors

A Business Unit of The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation ACCESSING SOLUTIONS From Your Desktop Original mesh - 21 % Error Refined mesh - 7 % Error Automatic refinement Original mesh

A Business Unit of The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation ACCESSING SOLUTIONS From Your Desktop FE Meshing Direct creation of nodes/elements Direct creation of nodes/elements Extrude/revolve 1D to 2D, 2D to 3D Extrude/revolve 1D to 2D, 2D to 3D Mirror Mirror Mesh editing Mesh editing Element quality checks Element quality checks Merge node Merge node Auto MPC connection of meshes between linear or quad tets to linear hex Auto MPC connection of meshes between linear or quad tets to linear hex

A Business Unit of The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation ACCESSING SOLUTIONS From Your Desktop oDisplay options lVector lContour lGraph lAnimation lCutting plane oResults in any coordinate system oData averaging control oResults combination oError calculation Results Review

A Business Unit of The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation ACCESSING SOLUTIONS From Your Desktop Linear Statics Loads constant with time Material assumed linear and perfectly elastic Results calculated l Stress l Displacement l Strain l Strain energy l Reaction force

A Business Unit of The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation ACCESSING SOLUTIONS From Your Desktop Normal Modes Calculates undamped natural modes of vibration Material assumed linear and perfectly elastic Results calculated (normalized) l Stress l Displacement l Strain l Strain energy l Reaction force

A Business Unit of The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation ACCESSING SOLUTIONS From Your Desktop Linear Buckling Calculates load factor for critical buckling Material assumed linear and perfectly elastic Results calculated l Stress l Displacement l Strain l Strain energy l Reaction force

A Business Unit of The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation ACCESSING SOLUTIONS From Your Desktop Non-Linear Statics Geometric non-linearity l Change in stiffness associated with large deformations l Load follows deformed shape Material non-linearity l Bi-linear elastic/plastic with plastic strain, or l Non-linear elastic, no plastic strain u Compressive/tensile stress-strain curves can be different

A Business Unit of The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation ACCESSING SOLUTIONS From Your Desktop Non-Linear Statics Non-linear Elastic Material

A Business Unit of The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation ACCESSING SOLUTIONS From Your Desktop Structures-2 Non-Linear Statics Load Following Deformed - load following F F F Undeformed

A Business Unit of The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation ACCESSING SOLUTIONS From Your Desktop Linear Transient Dynamics Time varying geometry and finite element loads Structural and modal damping Results calculated for each time step l Stress l Displacement l Strain l Velocity l Acceleration l Reaction force

A Business Unit of The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation ACCESSING SOLUTIONS From Your Desktop Heat Transfer Steady state and transient linear and non-linear heat transfer Heat transfer modes l Conduction l Free convection l Forced convection l Radiation Temperature and time dependent l Heat flux l Mass flow rate

A Business Unit of The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation ACCESSING SOLUTIONS From Your Desktop Heat Transfer

A Business Unit of The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation ACCESSING SOLUTIONS From Your Desktop MSC/ARIES To MSC/PATRAN ARIES Created Geometry

A Business Unit of The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation ACCESSING SOLUTIONS From Your Desktop MSC/ARIES To MSC/PATRAN Imported ARIES Geometry in MSC/PATRAN

A Business Unit of The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation ACCESSING SOLUTIONS From Your Desktop oGeometry oFE Analysis oOptimization oMechanisms oPlastics oMSC/ARIES Positioning

A Business Unit of The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation ACCESSING SOLUTIONS From Your Desktop Optimization An Automated Process That: o Satisfies Your Design Objective o Within Design Constraint(s) o By Modifying Design Variables

A Business Unit of The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation ACCESSING SOLUTIONS From Your Desktop Optimization - Overview 1 Design Objective l minimize/maximize weight, frequency, load factor n Design Constraints - local and or global l min/max stress, displacement, freq, load factor n Design Variables l Dimensional variables l Element shell thickness, Non Structural Mass Solve multiple constraints simultaneously l Linear statics (with multiple load cases) l Modal (per mode shape max/min control) l Buckling analysis

A Business Unit of The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation ACCESSING SOLUTIONS From Your Desktop Optimization - Overview Shape l Geometry dimensions as design variables Sizing (element properties) l Shell thickness, non-structural mass Design sensitivity l Effect of a change in a design variable on u Design Objective, Design Constraint(s) Shape and sizing can be combined

A Business Unit of The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation ACCESSING SOLUTIONS From Your Desktop Initial Design

A Business Unit of The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation ACCESSING SOLUTIONS From Your Desktop

A Business Unit of The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation ACCESSING SOLUTIONS From Your Desktop

A Business Unit of The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation ACCESSING SOLUTIONS From Your Desktop

A Business Unit of The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation ACCESSING SOLUTIONS From Your Desktop

A Business Unit of The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation ACCESSING SOLUTIONS From Your Desktop

A Business Unit of The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation ACCESSING SOLUTIONS From Your Desktop

A Business Unit of The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation ACCESSING SOLUTIONS From Your Desktop Final Design

A Business Unit of The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation ACCESSING SOLUTIONS From Your Desktop Optimization - Application Build solid or surface geometry Associate dimension variables in Parametrics: l Use as design variables for Optimization l Maintain design intent (Parameterize using DRP) l Maintain design intent (Attach DRP model(s) to solids in Parametrics)

A Business Unit of The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation ACCESSING SOLUTIONS From Your Desktop Optimization - Application Create finite element model Select Optimization application l 1 Design Objective minimize/maximize: u weight, frequency, load_factor l n Design Constraints - local and/or global min/max stress, disp, freq, load factor l n Design Variables u Dimensional, u Shell thickness, Non Structural Mass

A Business Unit of The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation ACCESSING SOLUTIONS From Your Desktop R1 L2 L1 R3 R2 DEP INDEP R1 = 2 x R2 R2 = R3 L2 = R1 x 3 Thick Selecting Design Variables

A Business Unit of The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation ACCESSING SOLUTIONS From Your Desktop Optimization - Results Review Post process in Optimization application l Graph design objective/ constraint(s)/ variable(s) against design cycle l Display geometry at intermediate design cycles Review results of final design in FE_Results l Standard results review process l Animate between FEmodels across design cycles

A Business Unit of The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation ACCESSING SOLUTIONS From Your Desktop

A Business Unit of The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation ACCESSING SOLUTIONS From Your Desktop P-Elements - Overview o Automatically increases elements shape function polynomial order during solution until convergence o Convergence based on per element strain energy difference between p- order changes o Mesh remains unchanged

A Business Unit of The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation ACCESSING SOLUTIONS From Your Desktop P-Elements - Overview Each edge of each element has its p-order independently controlled in MSC/NASTRAN

A Business Unit of The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation ACCESSING SOLUTIONS From Your Desktop P-Elements - Application Supported element types l Tetrahedron l Brick l Pentahedron (wedge) p-order min/max control l Recommended p-order range 3-10 Adaptivity automatically turns off below specified von Mises stress or strain minimum l Turns off adaptivity for elements where stress and or strain is negligible l Reduces CPU time and system resources

A Business Unit of The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation ACCESSING SOLUTIONS From Your Desktop P-Elements - Application Constrains shared edges to p-order = 1 Can mix h and p elements Use p-elements in areas where high accuracy required, h-elements elsewhere

A Business Unit of The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation ACCESSING SOLUTIONS From Your Desktop P-Elements - Application Hex to tet mesh connection works identically for p- elements: Automatic (h-adaptive) mesh refinement supported for automeshed p-elements Uses ERROR DATASET calculated from FER TOOLKIT error estimation

A Business Unit of The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation ACCESSING SOLUTIONS From Your Desktop P-Elements - Results Review p-element results review identical to h-elements Can display final p element order contours

A Business Unit of The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation ACCESSING SOLUTIONS From Your Desktop oGeometry oFE Analysis oOptimization oMechanisms oPlastics oMSC/ARIES Positioning

A Business Unit of The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation ACCESSING SOLUTIONS From Your Desktop Two- and three-dimensional mechanism modeling analysis and results review Uses MDI/ADAMS Kinematics solver Solves motion of fully constrained (0 DOF) kinematic systems i.e. the motion of the system is completely constrained by applied motion(s) and joint constraints Mechanisms

A Business Unit of The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation ACCESSING SOLUTIONS From Your Desktop oCreate link geometry oGeometry can be solid, surface or wireframe oAdd joints (supports all MDI/ADAMS joints) oAdd constant, harmonic, step, random motion oAdd motion constraints (e.g. cams), applied forces, springs, gravity oSolve Mechanisms Pre Processing Links Joints Contact

A Business Unit of The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation ACCESSING SOLUTIONS From Your Desktop Mechanisms Results Review Animated motion of links Motion path of any point Joint reaction force/moment Rotational/translational link displacement, velocity, acceleration Clearance/interference between links Results interrogation in local static/dynamic coordinate system

A Business Unit of The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation ACCESSING SOLUTIONS From Your Desktop oGeometry oFE Analysis oOptimization oMechanisms oPlastics oMSC/ARIES Positioning

A Business Unit of The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation ACCESSING SOLUTIONS From Your Desktop Plastics 3D mold fill analysis Uses Moldflow/Flowcheck solver Solves Will It Fill l Fast analysis to calculate areas of fill / no-fill / possible fill l Experiment with number of injection points/ location, material and part thickness Solves Fill_Pattern l Fill time l Air trap location l Weld line locations

A Business Unit of The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation ACCESSING SOLUTIONS From Your Desktop Plastics MSC/ARIES Created Solid

A Business Unit of The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation ACCESSING SOLUTIONS From Your Desktop Plastics Mold Fill Time Contours

A Business Unit of The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation ACCESSING SOLUTIONS From Your Desktop

A Business Unit of The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation ACCESSING SOLUTIONS From Your Desktop Modular Configuration

A Business Unit of The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation ACCESSING SOLUTIONS From Your Desktop Modular Configuration

A Business Unit of The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation ACCESSING SOLUTIONS From Your Desktop MSC/ARIES Base

A Business Unit of The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation ACCESSING SOLUTIONS From Your Desktop Optional Modules

A Business Unit of The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation ACCESSING SOLUTIONS From Your Desktop Platform Support WindowsNT Sun Solaris SGIHPIBM Digital Unix

A Business Unit of The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation ACCESSING SOLUTIONS From Your Desktop Intel based (not Digital NT) l Recommend >= Pentium 75MHz, 32Mb RAM l 125 Mb swap space l Any Microsoft supported graphics adapter in 256 color mode l WindowsNT l Windows 3.1 and Windows95 not available Licensing l Node-lock, standalone only l No network license support Requires Ethernet adapter for licensing Platform Requirements - WinNT

A Business Unit of The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation ACCESSING SOLUTIONS From Your Desktop Supported Unix workstation l 32Mb RAM l 125 Mb swap space Licensing l Node-lock, and l Floating network license Platform Requirements - Unix

A Business Unit of The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation ACCESSING SOLUTIONS From Your Desktop oGeometry oFE Analysis oOptimization oMechanisms oPlastics oMSC/ARIES Positioning

A Business Unit of The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation ACCESSING SOLUTIONS From Your Desktop MSC/ARIES Positioning Standalone Design and Analysis System uDesigned and analyzed in MSC/ARIES l Analysis of ACIS Based Geometry uDesign built in CAD system uDesign geometry import into MSC/ARIES uAnalyzed in MSC/ARIES l Focus on Ease-of-Use and Automation For...

A Business Unit of The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation ACCESSING SOLUTIONS From Your Desktop l Structural l Thermal l Mechanisms l Plastic Molding Analysis MSC/ARIES Positioning

A Business Unit of The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation ACCESSING SOLUTIONS From Your Desktop The Flow of Development MSC/ARIES The Flow of Development Product Requested Configuration Initial Stage Concept Design Actual Stage Detail Design Proto Typing Concept for Design Testing Many engineers will work in this stage Strategy Almost all design concepts will be decided

A Business Unit of The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation ACCESSING SOLUTIONS From Your Desktop Positioning of MSC/ARIES FEA Analyst Design Engineer Low price High price Static-Eigenvalues-Optimization-Heat-Dynamic-Nonlinear-Electromagnetic-Crash-NVH Easy to use CAD-Integration Functionality MSC/ARIES MSC/PATRAN PC/Windows Workstation Mainframe

A Business Unit of The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation ACCESSING SOLUTIONS From Your Desktop Positioning of MSC/ARIES End Start Manufacturing Process Manufacturing Bill of Materials Material Database Drafting Analysis Optimization Modeling Design MSC/ARIES Predictive Engineering CAD linked CADSystem Modification Costs

A Business Unit of The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation ACCESSING SOLUTIONS From Your Desktop Positioning of MSC/ARIES MSC/ARIES Targeted User Non-FE Specialist Geometry Based Analysis Conceptual CAE Tool & Modeller ACIS imported analysis Designer MSC/N4W Targeted User FE Knowledgeable GUI Nastran pre & post Limited Geometry Creation Relies on Geometry Import Windows Look & Feel Low-High End FE User

A Business Unit of The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation ACCESSING SOLUTIONS From Your Desktop Positioning of MSC/ARIES Guide line thought / Question Process CAD System Import Geometry Create Geometry FE Aware N4W ARIES Poss. No Sale Conflict With Existing Modeller Need To Create Drawings ACIS Drafting Package (AutoCAD etc) NO Yes

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A Business Unit of The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation ACCESSING SOLUTIONS From Your Desktop Mentor BoardStation Interface Bi-directional interface using Mentor IDF 2.0 file format Imports Mentor Board Station PCB and component data as an assembly of solids Components represented by automatically generated primitives or user created representations

A Business Unit of The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation ACCESSING SOLUTIONS From Your Desktop Mentor BoardStation Interface Supports board holes, vias, keep out and keep within areas 2D curves can be added to represent additional keep outs, keep within etc. Applications l Analysis (e.g. modal, thermal) l Checking clearance/interference l Housing/rack design