Luminary Cloud has announced its Physics AI simulation integration for Onshape, allowing users to iterate on designs with geometry, simulation and AI in a single, unified loop.
Available via the Onshape App Store, Luminary Cloud’s Physics AI platform utilises GPU-native simulation to allow users to generate simulation datasets at scale, faster and more efficiently than traditional solutions.
Users will be able to seamlessly import geometries from Onshape directly into Luminary – for which they will need a license – where in-app geometry parameterisation will allow them to control CAD model parameters without needing to leave the Luminary interface.
Luminary Cloud also state that support for the Luminary SDK will enable users to drive large-scale simulations workloads for Physics AI model training.
For engineers this can mean direct, accurate analysis triggered from within their Onshape design environment. For R&D teams, it can mean thousands of design variants explored in the time it once took to evaluate one, and for companies, this can all accelerate time-to-market, lower development costs and increase competitive edge in innovation.
Automated functionality can remove the complexity of managing simulation and model training workloads, letting users focus on design and engineering rather than infrastructure, while hyperparameters control and fine-tuning remain available to users wanting to further investigate.
Flexible inference APIs support the integration of model inference within user toolchains for rapid design analysis.
“For too long, engineering has lived with an artificial divide. Geometry and design happen in one set of tools, while physics and simulation live in another. The handoffs are clunky, the workflows brittle, and the pace of decision-making painfully slow. Engineers are often forced to make decisions on incomplete information or wait days or weeks for answers. That’s why Luminary Cloud and Onshape are partnering together to collapse this artificial barrier between CAD and simulation, and to give engineering teams the ability to design with confidence in real time,” said Luminary Cloud product manager Ananth Sridhar.
The news was also followed by Luminary Cloud’s announcement of it raising $72 million in Series B funding.
The round was led by N47, with participation from Sutter Hill Ventures and NVentures – Nvidia’s venture capital arm.
