1. Introduction to Design Engineer Analysis
CATIA V5 Analysis
Introduction to Design Engineer Analysis
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2. CATIA V5 Analysis Sales Kit
Introduction
Why is simulation important for certain designs
Where does simulation fit in the product design life cycle
Traditional codes
The new generation tools
What to look for in your chosen tool
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3. Analyze During the Design Phase ...Instead of After
Engineers designing products that relate to constraints, vibrations, fatigue, static and or dynamic loads can greatly benefit from the new CATIA V5 analysis tools and
Increase quality by validating in-progress designs
Shorten time to market by creating better designs, faster
Reduce burden on analysis group by forwarding final and mission critical designs instead of “tweaked” designs
Reduce outsourcing
Fluid analysis has always been reserved for very complex designs or mission critical projects. It’s a resource intensive task: in people, money and time. But many others could take advantage of this technology to create more reliable designs without having to over-engineer parts. Engineers designing any product that relate to simultaneous flow of gas, liquid, heat transfer and forces on immersed or surrounding solids could take advantage of this technology.
By using this technology,
Companies can greatly reduce outsourcing by validating in-progress designs
Also engineers could greatly shorten their design time by doing their own design verification and advancing the best designs to the analysis group. FloWorks can enhance the overall design process. It is intended to provide the design engineer with an analysis tool thereby allowing him to do "in progress" checks on work he is doing. This will help the engineering organization to accomplish a few very beneficial goals. First, the design engineer will submit more qualified designs to the analysis group. Second, by empowering designers to do their own verification work, they can ease the load on the analysis group and allow the analysts to focus on mission critical analysis problems. The combination of these two will significantly decrease the delays fluid analysis create in the design process.
The engineer can also do “what if” testing and increasing the quality of designs
And lastly, companies can shorten time to market by reducing duplication of effort and streamlining their design process
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4. Upfront CAE to help avoid fires Downstream CAD to put out fires
When to Start Analysis...
Program Start
Production
Time
Effort/Work
Product Development Timeline
Upfront CAE to help avoid fires
Downstream CAD to put out fires
Typical product cycle
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5. Traditional Process Flow...
Engineering
Idea
CAD
Standard FEA
“What Ifs”
Prototype Test
Final FEA Verification
“Real life” test
Concept Stage
Definition & Development Stage
Virtual Prove-out Stage
Initial Development Phase
Iteration 1
Iteration N
TIME
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6. CATIA V5 Analysis Sales Kit
Traditional Codes
Require IGES or other forms of data transfer
lose parametric
lose solids data
May require user to create geometry from scratch
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7. CATIA V5 Analysis Sales Kit
Traditional Codes
For Analysts
Required “advanced” knowledge of FEA theory and concepts
Manually “optimized” mesh
Long learning curve
Expensive hardware required
Expensive to purchase/lease
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8. New Generation Process Flow...
CAE
Engineering
CAD
Standard FEA
Prototype Test
Idea
CAE Evaluation
“What Ifs”
Full Scale FEA Validation
“What If?” Cascade
“Real life” test
Concept Stage
Definition & Development Stage
Virtual Prove-out Stage
Reduced Development Cycle
TIME
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9. CATIA V5 Analysis Sales Kit
New Generation Tools
Fully integrated/single window integration into CAD
No data translation or transfer
keep parametric
model remains solid
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10. CATIA V5 Analysis Sales Kit
New Generation Tools
Designed for the Windows platform
For Design Engineers
re-written from scratch rather than a “dumped down” version of high-end packages
Requires no advanced knowledge of FEA theory
Automatic meshing
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11. CATIA V5 Analysis Sales Kit
New Generation Tools
Short learning curve
Inexpensive hardware required
Inexpensive
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12. Roles & Responsibilities
Design Engineer:
First level analysis on multiple design options
What-if testing
Routine basic studies
Which model seems to be the best alternative
Analyst:
Secondary/final verification
Solve mission critical problems instead of routine studies
Conduct special/high-end analyses
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13. Roles & Responsibilities
V5 Analysis Tools as a complementary offer:
Not to replace a full and complex simulation package like Nastran, Ansys, Abaqus, …
To be used earlier in the design process
To shorter and improve product development process with integrated design/analysis activity
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What to Look For...
Single window integration with CATIA V5
Not a “dumped-down” version, but a program designed for design engineers
Accuracy
Ease of use
user interface
problem set-up
meshing
analysis results visualisation
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15. CATIA V5 Analysis Sales Kit
What to Look For...
Ease of report generation
Technical support from Dassault Systèmes
Ask to see “your” problem rather than canned demos
Request for “on the job” tests
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