News

First Look: CompoSide 2.8.2 – materials and more for composite parts design

Posted by Stephen Holmes - June 17, 2016

CompoSide v2.8.2 supports all composites material types including adhesives, cores, fibres, matrix and plies Composites design can be slow going,…

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Hardware

Workstations for simulation (FEA)

Posted by DEVELOP3D - September 8, 2016

Greg Corke gets hands on with Ansys Mechanical 17.0 to explore how firms can get more out of their budget…

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News

MSC gears up for latest Adams multibody dynamics simulation release

Posted by Stephen Holmes - November 22, 2016

MSC Adams returns for 2017 with improved gear part geometry MSC Adams 2017 looks to expand its multibody dynamics simulation…

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Opinion

Q&A – Analyse fully featured parts without meshing

Posted by DEVELOP3D - May 11, 2017

We talk to the co-founder and CEO at SIMSOLID about its new structural analysis tool that analyses fully featured parts…

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News

Autodesk Product Design & Manufacturing Collection launches for ‘integrated workflow’

Posted by Stephen Holmes - August 9, 2017

Autodesk Industry Collections have been launched, with the Inventor-focussed Product Design and Manufacturing variant adding key manufacturing tools in the…

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News

Ansys launches Discovery Live, a ‘revolution in simulation’

Posted by Al Dean - September 7, 2017

https://giphy.com/embed/ReHefpW5B0yZ2 Ansys has launched Ansys Discovery Live, a brand new product line that aims to remove many of the barriers…

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News

Laminates and composites FEA analysis targeted by MSC Nastran 2018

Posted by Stephen Holmes - November 20, 2017

Simulating pre-stressing and fan blade out of a jet engine in Nastran 2018 Nastran 2018.0 will bring ‘new assembly modeling…

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Reviews

Review: Boston Venom Epyc (pre-production unit)

Posted by Greg Corke - January 16, 2018

The Venom Epyc offers dual 32 core AMD Epyc CPUs, but at the expense of single threaded performance, writes Greg…

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News

Composites abilities take centre stage in MSC Apex ‘Harris Hawk’

Posted by Stephen Holmes - February 28, 2018

MSC Apex model of a composite layup airplane structure MSC Apex’s latest release, Harris Hawk, is targeting a unique composite…

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News

Powertrain simulation software MSC Nastran gets AVL Excite hook-up

Posted by Stephen Holmes - August 21, 2018

MSC Nastran v2018.2 for powertrain simulations now allows engineers to cover a wider range of design possibilities and examine the…

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