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Jean Thilmany

Design and Drawing Tool CorelDraw Graphics Suite Now Includes AI to Speed Workflows

April 20, 2020 By Jean Thilmany Leave a Comment

The updated CorelDraw Graphics Suite 2020 helps designers quickly get from the original concept to output. The tool includes a collection of professional applications for vector illustration, layout and typography, and photo editing. The graphics software is compatible with macOS and Windows operating systems as well as a CorelDraw.app for the web.

The tool is from Corel Corp. in Ottawa, Canada.

The latest update includes artificial intelligence, performance enhancements, and access to cloud-based collaboration to accelerate the creation of complex projects and graphics.

“With the update, teams and clients can now access a centralized collaboration hub to get everyone on the same page in real-time; while designers can discover the power of machine learning to create striking results, faster than ever. Make no mistake — this isn’t AI for AI’s sake, “says John Falsetto, senior director of products, CorelDraw and Productivity. “We’ve leveraged artificial intelligence across the suite to make the biggest impact on your professional graphics workflow.

Designers using the app can work with their files almost anywhere. Subscribers can now use the app’s new collaboration features to simplify the entire review and approval process.

The drawing and design tool CorelDraw Graphics Suite 2020 now includes machine-learning and AI capabilities to speed design workflow.

The AI-integrated tools expand design capabilities and accelerate workflows.

  • Image upsampling and artifact removal: Enlarge images with AI-based upsampling options that create high-quality results with clean edges, sharpness, and fine details. Get more out of lossy JPEG images with machine learning techniques that remove JPEG compression artifacts and recover color details, eliminating the need for time-consuming manual editing.
  • PowerTrace: The bitmap-to-vector trace included in the new AI-assisted image-optimization technology improves the quality of a bitmap as it’s being traced.
  • Art Style effects: When working in CorelDraw and Corel Photo-Paint, you can choose from a range of AI presets inspired by the techniques of different artists and genres to produce a stylized version of an image or object.
  • Masks in Corel Photo-Paint: Quickly and accurately select an image with the new Smart Selection Mask, which intelligently expands the selection by finding edges. The Mask Transform tool now enables transformations to be applied to pixels within a mask.

Collaborative tools boost productivity by taking advantage of a collaboration workflow in CorelDraw.app. The workflow is available with a CorelDRAW Graphics Suite subscription, licensing with maintenance, or an additional CorelDraw.app Pro subscription for perpetual license customers. With it, users can:

  • Easily share files for collaborative review and approval: This feature gives users a potential better way than they had been using to connect with colleagues and clients in real-time. The CorelDraw.app can now act as the central hub to share CorelDRAW (CDR) files with clients and contributors. The new workflow makes design changes, reviews, and approvals easy by enabling the designer to manage feedback from one or many contributors in a single working file.
  • Comment and Annotate: This feature keeps everyone on the same page because they can view, respond to, and resolve feedback with new comments docker/inspector. The tool can save time and screen space by adding detailed comments and mark-up annotations, including note icons, arrows, rectangles, ellipses, as well as straight and free-form lines directly on the document.
  • Sign In Easily: Collaborators can access shared design files and make suggestions and remarks in CorelDraw.app by signing in as a guest or with a Corel customer account in the web browser, on any device.

Creative tools and significant upgrades to text, including customizable multilevel lists, inspire users to broaden their design horizons and work more efficiently.

  • Work with Variable fonts: Leverage the latest font technology with support for OpenType variable fonts that make it easy to manipulate text appearance and achieve a range of unique looks all from a single font. In many cases, this leads to smaller file sizes when creating files with multiple font styles.
  • Inner Shadow tool: Apply inner shadows to design elements to give them 3D depth. The new inner shadow tool lets users simulate light falling on an object and then fine-tune the inner shadow.
  • Bitmap effect lens: Apply bitmap effects as lenses in CorelDraw and Corel Photo-Paint. Position bitmap effects with precision by moving or manipulating the lens and apply a feather effect to seamlessly blend vector and bitmap objects into an existing design.
  • Non-destructive effects in Corel Photo-Paint: The new effects docker/inspector makes it easy to apply, modify, and experiment with effects, all without altering the source object. Get different looks by adding multiple effects, reordering them in the list, or toggling them on and off.

Availability and Pricing

CorelDraw Graphics Suite 2020 for Windows and CorelDraw Graphics Suite 2020 for Mac are available in English, German, Italian, French, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Dutch, Polish, Czech, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, and Japanese. Subscription is $249 U.S. dollars per year. Perpetual licenses are available at the suggested retail price of $499 USD.

CorelDraw.app collaboration features are available exclusively with a CorelDraw Graphics Suite subscription, licensing with maintenance, or an additional CorelDraw.app Pro subscription for perpetual license customers.

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PTC Launches Creo 7.0 CAD Software with AI

April 14, 2020 By Jean Thilmany Leave a Comment

PTC launched an update to its computer-aided design software in middle April. Creo 7.0 includes new capabilities to bring artificial intelligence (AI) to designers so they can make simulation part of their daily work. according toBrian Thompson, divisional vice president and general manager, CAD, PTC.

The Creo 7.0 launch follows PTC’s recent acquisition of Onshape, developer of the Onshape Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) product development platform, demonstrating the company’s deep commitment to providing innovative technology—via multiple delivery models—to drive business value.

The newest release includes generative design technology from Frusum, a company recently acquired by PTC. Generative design uses AI capabilities to optimize designs. AI is the use of technology and mathematics to create systems that perceive, learn, and act in order to enhance or replace human capabilities-augmented reasoning, said Jesse Coors-Blankenship, a senior vice president of technology at PTC.

“As a long-time Creo customer, we were excited to get early access to Creo 7.0,” said Adrian Marshall, manager of computer-aided design in product development, Royal Enfield. “Creo has helped us revolutionize the way we develop, produce, and maintain our motorcycles.”

Engineers can specify their requirements and goals within the software, including preferred materials and manufacturing processes—and the generative engine will automatically produce a manufacture-ready design as a starting point or as a final solution, Coors-Blankenship said.

The software combines AI with engineering capability and creativity. Parts and products designed through this process are lighter, stronger and use far less materials than those designed using traditional CAD software, Coors-Blankenship said.

Integral to generative design is the goal of augmenting design expertise and capabilities by:

  • Optimizing designs for multiple objectives simultaneously and providing a designer with several novel design alternatives, which enables companies to substantially reduce engineering cycles
  • Creating constraint-driven design that would not be intuitive to a human or that normally requires deep expertise to optimize (essentially allowing less-experienced designers to create output comparable to more experienced experts).

The Creo 7.0 also includes fluid flow analysis via Creo Simulation Live—a real-time simulation solution that helps designers iterate faster and design with more confidence. This analysis capability expands on PTC’s strategic alliance with Ansys, a maker of simulation and visualization software.

The tool offers real-time guidance for instant feedback on design decisions in the CAD environment. Engineers don’t have to guess at how their design might perform under real-world conditions. They can incorporate as many design changes as needed, confident that they’ve made the best-informed decisions possible, Thompson said.

Creo 7.0 also introduces multibody design, a new set of design tools that enables users to complete many design tasks more efficiently while making their part design easier to manage, understand, and modify. With the multibody design workflows, engineers can separately manage, visualize, and design geometric volumes. This is particularly helpful in the areas of generative design, additive manufacturing, and simulation.

The upgrade to the PTC CAD software also includes enhanced additive manufacturing capabilities, including improved support for Stochastic and custom lattices, giving designers greater flexibility when creating lattice structures.

As with every release, Creo 7.0 provides additional usability and productivity capabilities for all users, including enhanced draft capabilities, improvements to 2D mirror functionality, and multiple user interface improvements to the Sketcher tool.

Creo helps designers build better products faster by facilitating product innovation, fostering design reuse, and replacing assumptions with facts. Designers can go from the earliest phases of product design to a smart, connected product all within a single environment, Thompson said.

 

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Elysium Extends its 3DExperience Partnership with Dassault Systèmes

March 5, 2020 By Jean Thilmany Leave a Comment

Elysium Extends its 3DExperience Partnership with Dassault Systèmes

Elysium, a solution for CAD interoperability has integrated its suite of software with the  Dassault Systèmes 3DExperience platform to support model-based definition and model-based enterprise (MBD and MBE). The integration will help users transfer their compliance-checked data in multi-CAD environments.

Many companies are moving toward the MBD workflow.

MBD calls upon 3D models, 3D product management information, and associated metadata within the 3D CAD software to define individual components and product assemblies. The types of information included are geometric dimensioning and tolerancing, component-level materials, assembly-level bills of material, engineering configurations, and design intent. MBD differs from other methods used to define components and assemblies, which have historically required accompanying 2D engineering drawings to provide this type of information.

It can be useful in additive manufacturing, where parts go straight from the computer to the printer.

The MBD workflow uses the 3D CAD model as what some in the industry term the “single source of truth” for product and process data. All relevant users can share the 3D model with anyone involved in the design and manufacturing process, and it will contain all the information they need to build it.

So all the “truth” needs to be incorporated into the model and the workflow.

One of the biggest obstacles for these companies is shared data. Elysium’s CAD interoperability solutions expand a company’s use of and sharing of 3D data; streamlining a variety of processes that leverage CAD from design to manufacturing.

The Elysium and Dassault Systèmes integration also ensures that customized quality checks, geometry, and product manufacturing information, attribute validation, and geometry simplification, which happens automatically within the 3Dexperience platform to create streamlined workflows.

This enhanced functionality is equally applicable to outside CAD and engineering data that can now be brought into the platform as tested, compliant data used for master models and derivates shared by original equipment manufacturers and their suppliers in collaborative development.

“Many 3DExperience users have been working to streamline digital data and improve productivity and throughput across product development,” says Atsuto Soma, chief technology officer at Elysium. “The increasing reliance on MBD/MBE to achieve these gains requires seamless interoperability of digital product data between systems.

The integrated systems enable a more unified product-data sharing ecosystem than was possible before. Elysium is moving toward supporting at a complete 3D data-based workflow for global manufacturers.

“We hope to become an essential partner for the industry’s success in enterprise-wide MBD,” Soma says.

The Elysium solution developed for Dassault Systèmes users and its counterparts includes data checking and healing, complies with more than 70 quality and best-practice standards, supports data migration to new software versions, offers change-configuration analysis. To develop the master and derivative models used in supply chains it transfers data and then prepares it in most major CAD vendor formats.

The solution also includes 3D PDF reporting capabilities, optimizations such as geometry simplification, and the organization and review of data comprised of PMI and attributes sent to downstream manufacturing systems. In addition, Elysium will support data import from Dassault Systèmes’ 3DXML format.

 

 

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Dassault Systèmes Pledges a Virtual Twin of the Human Body

February 25, 2020 By Jean Thilmany Leave a Comment

 

Dassault Systèmes plans to make a virtual twin of the human body in the coming years, says Bernard Charlès, the company’s vice chairman and chief executive officer. The plan fits in with the company’s overall vision to help cure patients and help them live longer.

“In 1989, we created the first virtual twin of a giant airplane, the Boeing 777,” Charlès says. “Today we’re capable of applying the knowledge and know-how we acquired in the non-organic world to the living world, extending our focus from things to life. The virtual twin experience of the human body will enable us to invent new ways of representing life by understanding and representing the invisible and make a lasting contribution to  benefit all.”

A virtual twin experience of the human body created with the engineering software company’s 3DExperience platform will integrate modeling, simulation, information intelligence and collaboration, he says. It brings together biosciences, material sciences and information sciences to project the data from an object into a complete living virtual model that can be fully configured and simulated.

“By combining art, science and technology, it makes it possible to understand the invisible to represent the visible. Industry, researchers, physicians and even patients can visualize, test, understand and predict what cannot be seen—from the way drugs affect a disease to surgical outcomes—before a patient is treated,” Charlès adds.

To achieve this strategy, Dassault Systèmes will focus on developing its leadership in life sciences and healthcare. It will also work to further develop leadership in two other sectors: manufacturing industries and infrastructure and cities, he says.

These sectors share similar development processes and sustainability needs in their efforts to improve quality of life, whether through more affordable and precise therapies, optimized infrastructures, or better use of the environment, Charlès says.

At Dassault Systèmes 3DExperience World event held earlier this month in Nashville, Mike Schultz, a Paralympic gold and silver medalist, spoke about his use of SolidWorks computer-aided design modeling tools to continue perfecting the design of a prosthetic leg, knee, and foot. He originally designed the prosthetic leg after he lost his leg above the knee in a 2008 snowmobile racing accident.

He went on to found BioDapt, a company that designs and manufactures high-performance, lower-limb prosthetic components used for action sports and

BioDapt makes high-performance, lower-limb prosthetic components used for action sports and similar activities.

similar activities. The goal is to manufacture the highest quality and highly versatile components that allow amputees to participate in sports and activities. This equipment can be and is used by many elite adaptive athletes as well as by the average person who wants to get out and be active, Schultz says.

Schultz is the creator of the Moto Knee and the Versa Foot.

“I wanted to get back to doing the activities I loved—mainly motocross and snowmobile racing—but I soon found there was nothing that would really allow me to ride the way I did before my amputation,” he says.

“With my knowledge and experience of fabrication, the experience of tuning suspension on my race equipment and my unwillingness to compromise I set out to create what I needed. After nearly two years of development I have come up with a knee unit that is versatile enough to handle many different action sports and has helped me win multiple ESPN X Games medals ain the adaptive motocross and snocross events,”  Schultz adds.

Matt Carney, a biomechatronics graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology also spoke at 3DExperience World. He is working to connect cybernetic interfaces to the human body; enabling direct control of robotics limbs. Carney says he is focused on the future of prosthetics and on eventually creating full biological capabilities in artificial limbs.

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Dassault Systèmes Expands 3DExperience Works and Partners with Xometry

February 14, 2020 By Jean Thilmany Leave a Comment

Dassault Systèmes announced three new 3DExperience Works commercial software offerings: standard, professional, and premium, at the company’s 3DExperience World conference this week. Gian Paolo Bassi, Dassault Systèmes company’s chief executive officer announced the expansion.

The engineering software maker also announced a new partnership with Xometry, a company that makes an on-demand manufacturing software, including additive manufacturing. The partnership will give SolidWorks and Catia users swift access manufacturing price quotes via the Xometry software. They’ll be able to get those quotes right on their design screen without the need to switch between software systems, Bassi says.

Xometry is Dassault Systèmes’ Make Marketplace’s first prime partner—a new category of partner that provides best-in-class buying experiences to users of Make Marketplace, Dassault Systèmes’ on-demand manufacturing service, Bassi says.

The 3DExperience Works expansion now offers standard, professional and versions and feature SolidWorks computer-aided design standard, professional and premium applications installed from, licensed from, and updated in the 3DExperience platform using data stored in the platform.

The connection means SolidWorks users can still use the SolidWorks desktop application they’re familiar with, while they also get the benefits of the 3DExperience digital platform. These include improved collaboration, embedded data management, automatic software updates, and access to current project data. In other words, SolidWorks users will have the CAD software and the platform access in one place on their desktop.

SolidWorks users to select from dozens of other 3DExperience Works applications to the ones they need for their tasks.

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The scaled software also includes 3D Creator and 3D Sculptor, design applications that run in any browser.

“Customers want to do more than just design. They want to have a life-like experience of the products they make,” Bassi says. “This requires better design, simulation, governance, management, and manufacturing and—most important—collaboration within the entire value chain.

“We want to provide customers with more options that make sense for their business. That’s why we’ve made it easy for them to take advantage of and explore 3Dexperience Works platform,” he adds. “On the platform, everything and everyone involved in the concept, design, simulate, manufacture, sales, and service processes are connected and integrated in one continuous loop.”

SolidWorks customers can continue to buy the standalone SolidWorks desktop version. Dassault Systèmes also plans similar releases for its education and startups packages.

The Xometry partnership will allow engineers to get Xometry price quotes on their screen, in the context of their design, and click to have it manufactured while—at the same time—having the option to get instant or manual quotes from other Make Marketplace suppliers.

“Customers can order high-quality additive manufacturing or CNC machining parts in one click, at the right price, with Xometry’s instant quoting capabilities,” says Sébastien Massart, head of corporate strategy at Dassault Systèmes. “This is all part of our vision to reduce the friction that customers face going from design to manufacturing.”

The new prime partnership category in which Xometry is placed recognizes qualified service providers that have industrial-grade quality certifications and production capacities, he says. Dassault Systèmes plans to add other prime partners to its 3DExperience Marketplace ecosystem.

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New Tool Bridges 2D and 3D Graphics

February 3, 2020 By Jean Thilmany Leave a Comment

Canvas GFX, Inc, a provider of technical illustration software has released a new product, Canvas X3 CADComposer, which it describes as a bridge between three-dimensional and two-dimensional illustration. It enhances the core Canvas X3 software with the capability to import and edit 3D CAD files. No need to switch between 2D and 3D software.

The CADComposer now provides an integrated design environment so users can combine all 2D and 3D graphical elements and apply high-end effects within a single document, said Patricia Hume, chief executive officer of Canvas GFX, which makes the tool.

With the tool, technical illustrators can import 40 different 3D file types into the Canvas environment, then position, explode, enhance, and annotate these models for use in a variety of 2D assets. Canvas X3 imports all metadata attached to each model, allowing illustrators to document and reference individual model parts for a range of outputs, including a bill of materials.

By giving illustrators the ability to handle 3D models and metadata directly, Canvas X3 CADComposer frees CAD engineers from having to supply many model views for downstream use, which saves them time and allows them to prioritize other activity. It gives technical illustrators and graphic designers the capability to manipulate 3D CAD models without the need for expensive CAD software.

This allows users to use their source CAD files to produce assembly diagrams, maintenance manuals, repair guides, product sheets, marketing material, and more.

The tool can import a great array of 3D CAD, vector, and raster file formats and export many image and vector formats. Users can work with 0.035-micron accuracy. They can show, hide, or ghost any part in their assembly to better focus the viewer. They can also change colors of assemblies to highlight parts within them.

CAD objects can be edited and re-edited as many times as needed. Users can update documents with new versions or changed views by double-clicking an object. Any rendering can be undone.

They can also automatically label parts in their illustration with CAD metadata to quickly create a bill of materials from CAD data that lists all the parts of the assembly. They can intuitively move parts along their axes for exploded views to help viewers understand how multiple components interconnect.

This is the first Canvas product to build on the firm’s partnership with Dassault Systèmes’s subsidiary Spatial.

Canvas GFX looked to Spatial Corp., a provider of 3D software development toolkits for design, manufacturing, and engineering solutions, for enabling technology for 3D import and model visualization. The engineering team at Canvas GFX selected 3D InterOp, a 3D CAD data translation software development toolkit from Spatial, Hume said.

“3D InterOp enables Canvas X3 users to work with imported 3D data as easily as if it were created natively in the Canvas GFX tool. The result is improved workflow efficiency and enhanced user experience,” added said Vivekan Iyengar, vice president of research and development at Spatial.

Canvas GFX and Spatial Corp announced their partnership in May 2019.

 

 

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Leading 3D Printing Company Appoints New CEO

January 9, 2020 By Jean Thilmany Leave a Comment

Stratasys Ltd., a maker of additive manufacturing and 3D printing technology, has appointed a new chief executive officer.

Yoav Zeif will take the helm in middle February, with current Interim Chief Executive Officer Elchanan Jaglom continuing as chairman.

Based in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, Stratasys, Inc. manufactures rapid prototyping machines that produce physical models from computer designs using fused deposition modeling technology.

At Netafim, a micro-irrigation company, Zeif was president of the americas division and head of product offering and chief commercial officer. He was also senior vice president of products and marketing at Makhteshim (now Adama Ltd.), a global crop-protection company. Since 2018, he’s been a partner in the New York office of McKinsey & Company.

“Stratasys has led the expansion of the 3-D printing industry for more than three decades, but the potential impact of this transformative technology across all industries is just beginning,” Jaglom says. “Yoav brings the strong combination of leadership and global operational experience to fuel our next stage of growth. We are confident that as CEO he will advance our offering and further our vision to reshape the world of design, prototyping and manufacturing.”

Last year, Stratasys introduced its F120 printer, an industrial-grade 3D printer.

Although engineers and designers have benefited greatly from the introduction of computer-aided design, they still need a physical copy in order to check the viability of their ideas, Jaglom says. Designers would spend time making models by hand. With the introduction of rapid prototyping machines, such as those made by Stratasys, CAD designs could be turned into a prototype in a matter of hours, available in a variety of materials.

Fused deposition modeling (FDM) technology relies on a high-speed robotic arm and an extruding head, in effect a glue gun, to spray melted thermoplastic filament. Relying on CAD coding, the gun moves over a platform, plotting small dots of plastic to create a model from the bottom up in a thermally controlled modeling chamber.

Although Stratasys continues to make high-end products, the company has enjoyed success with 3-D printers that cost less than $25,000, making the technology available to a much wider range of customers, including schools. Because the machines require no special venting or chemical post-processing they are also suitable for office use, Jaglom says.

With Zeif’s responsibility spanning dozens of global geographies and multiple lines of business, Zeif delivered growth rates significantly higher than the surrounding market, Jaglom says.

Stratasys pioneered and continues to power the additive manufacturing landscape, enabling companies across virtually all industries to build and improve their businesses through 3D printing technology,” Zeif says. “In particular, thanks to its outstanding innovations and application engineering, it is clear that Stratasys is poised not only to reshape product development and prototyping but also to transform supply chains and manufacturing through efficiency and personalization.”

Stratasys was founded by the husband and wife team of Scott Crump and Lisa Crump. In 1988, Crump decided to make a toy frog for his young daughter using a glue gun loaded with a mixture of polyethylene and candle wax. His idea was to create the shape layer by layer. He then thought of a way to automate the process, spent $10,000 on digital-plotting equipment, and devoted weekend hours to the project.

The couple founded the company in 1988 and in 1989 he patented FDM technology.

 

 

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Comsol Multiphysics Update Includes New Sketching Tool

October 9, 2019 By Jean Thilmany Leave a Comment

Comsol is set to release Comsol Multiphysics Version 5.5 in November 2019. In this version, the Design Module offers a new sketching tool for easier creation and more versatile parametric control of geometry models, says Daniel Bertilsson, technology manager for mathematics and computer science at Comsol.

Comsol Multiphysics offers tools for engineering modeling, simulation, application, and deployment. It solves for multiple physical effects at the same time.

The company made the update announcement at its annual Comsol Conference held in October in Boston.

New and updated solvers speed a range of simulations. Two new add-on products, the Porous Media Flow Module and the Metal Processing Module, further expand on the product’s suite of multiphysics tools.

The new sketching tool makes it easier to assign dimensions and constraints to planar drawings for 2D modeling and 3D work planes.

“We’ve carefully integrated the new dimensions and constraints tool in the Model Builder so it becomes a natural part of the Comsol Multiphysics workflow,” Bertilsson says. “The new tools for dimensions and constraints can be used together with model parameters in Comsol to drive the simulation, whether for a single run, parametric sweep, or parametric optimization.”

Acoustics Simulations

Another update—new solver technology for acoustics simulations—is a nod to ultrasound technology becoming increasingly important in a range of applications from process engineering and nondestructive testing to consumer electronics.

Other new functionality—based on the time-explicit discontinuous Galerkin method—enables efficient multicore computation of ultrasound propagation in solids and fluids. This includes realistic materials featuring damping and anisotropy. The method also has low-frequency applications, such as in seismology. The multiphysics capability included in this new functionality can seamlessly combine linear elastic wave propagation in a solid and its transition to a fluid, as an acoustic pressure wave, and back again.

The new elastic wave functionality is available for users of the Structural Mechanics Module, MEMS Module, and Acoustics Module. The fluid-structure acoustics coupling is available in the Acoustics Module.

Porous Media Flow Module

This module gives users within industries such as food, pharmaceutical, and biomedical a range of transport analysis capabilities for porous media, trying, and transport in fractures. The flow modules cover linear and nonlinear flow in saturated and variably saturated media with special options for slow and fast porous media flows. The multisphycis simulation capabilities are extensive, with functionality that includes options for calculating effective thermal properties for multicomponent systems, poroelasticity, and transport of chemical species in solid, liquid, and gas phases.

Other highlights of this upgrade include:

  • Import and export of the 3D printing and additive manufacturing formats PLY and 3MF.
  • Multiple spectral bands for radiation in participating media
  • Lumped thermal systems equivalent circuits
  • Combined full wave and ray optics simulations
  • Minimum-sized standalone application files with Comsol Compiler
  • Compressible Euler flow and nonisothermal large eddy simulations
  • Editing tools for repair of STL, PLY, and 3MR files

 

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Comsol Update Includes New Sketching Tool

October 9, 2019 By Jean Thilmany Leave a Comment

Comsol is set to release Comsol Multiphysics Version 5.5 in November 2019. In this version, the Design Module offers a new sketching tool for easier creation and more versatile parametric control of geometry models, says Daniel Bertilsson, technology manager for mathematics and computer science at Comsol.

Comsol Multiphysics offers tools for engineering modeling, simulation, application, and deployment. It solves for multiple physical effects at the same time.

The company made the update announcement at its annual Comsol Conference held in October in Boston.

New and updated solvers speed a range of simulations. Two new add-on products, the Porous Media Flow Module and the Metal Processing Module, further expand on the product’s suite of multiphysics tools.

The new sketching tool makes it easier to assign dimensions and constraints to planar drawings for 2D modeling and 3D work planes.

“We’ve carefully integrated the new dimensions and constraints tool in the Model Builder so it becomes a natural part of the Comsol Multiphysics workflow,” Bertilsson says. “The new tools for dimensions and constraints can be used together with model parameters in Comsol to drive the simulation, whether for a single run, parametric sweep, or parametric optimization.”

Acoustics Simulations

Another update—new solver technology for acoustics simulations—is a nod to ultrasound technology becoming increasingly important in a range of applications from process engineering and nondestructive testing to consumer electronics.

Other new functionality—based on the time-explicit discontinuous Galerkin method—enables efficient multicore computation of ultrasound propagation in solids and fluids. This includes realistic materials featuring damping and anisotropy. The method also has low-frequency applications, such as in seismology. The multiphysics capability included in this new functionality can seamlessly combine linear elastic wave propagation in a solid and its transition to a fluid, as an acoustic pressure wave, and back again.

The new elastic wave functionality is available for users of the Structural Mechanics Module, MEMS Module, and Acoustics Module. The fluid-structure acoustics coupling is available in the Acoustics Module.

Porous Media Flow Module

This module gives users within industries such as food, pharmaceutical, and biomedical a range of transport analysis capabilities for porous media, trying, and transport in fractures. The flow modules cover linear and nonlinear flow in saturated and variably saturated media with special options for slow and fast porous media flows. The multisphycis simulation capabilities are extensive, with functionality that includes options for calculating effective thermal properties for multicomponent systems, poroelasticity, and transport of chemical species in solid, liquid, and gas phases.

Other highlights of this upgrade include:

  • Import and export of the 3D printing and additive manufacturing formats PLY and 3MF.
  • Multiple spectral bands for radiation in participating media
  • Lumped thermal systems equivalent circuits
  • Combined full wave and ray optics simulations
  • Minimum-sized standalone application files with Comsol Compiler
  • Compressible Euler flow and nonisothermal large eddy simulations
  • Editing tools for repair of STL, PLY, and 3MR files

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In, April Engineering Leaders Will Gather at COFES to Look at Technology Convergence

March 21, 2019 By Jean Thilmany Leave a Comment

The Congress on the Future of Engineering Software has a new home in 2019. Just in time for its 20th anniversary, the even will move from Scottsdale, Ariz., to Menlo Park, Calif., the heart of Silicon Valley.

The conference is think-tank event where those involved with engineering technology industry come together to discuss best practices, share ideas for managing change, and find strategies to achieve financial success. This year, the event takes place April 7 to 9.

It’s relocation is obviously no accident.

“With this move, we’re showing that engineering software is moving into the future of more high technology products,” said Jim Brown, president of engineering consulting firm Tech-Clarity and a member of the COFES Institute board of directors. The institute provides leadership for COFES.

The meeting this year includes subjects like CAD and PLM software, but also addresses new methods of engineering design as well as new technologies making their way into the engineering realm.

“There’s so much convergence of new technologies like artificial intelligence, IoT, connected products and 3D printing  that are starting to come into the design world for things like generative design,” Brown said. “It’s kind of up to as the engineering software community to come together as users of the software and as the academics and industry thought leaders and software vendors to put our heads together to figure out how we can do more with these technologies.”

To illustrate the changes the engineering field has recently experienced, Brown pointed to the shift from products, like automobiles, that had previously been strictly mechanical in nature, to items that now commonly include mechanical, electrical, and even software systems.

“Now a car is trying to schedule your service appointments and soon as part of smart city initiatives it will be communicating with other cars and with traffic lights,” Brown said. “Our tools, our mindsets have to change. The engineering software community is excited for these changes, but we need to determine how to react to them and how to support them.”

For nearly two decades, COFES had been owned and run by Cyon Research. It recently moved to operating as a nonprofit.

Last week, conference leaders announced that Microsoft will deliver a keynote on the COFES 2019 theme of technology convergence—the pairing of two or more technologies in a single device–from a software perspective.

The trend of convergence creates new challenges and opportunities for any company developing software solutions for design and manufacturing.

Microsoft leaders will share their insights regarding the possibilities the cloud can bring to companies for competitive advantages when it comes to software solutions for design and manufacturing, said Diego Tamburini, Microsoft principal industry lead, cloud for engineering and manufacturing

The need to effectively design in this new reality will become increasingly more important, he said. While companies are dealing with convergence with brute force, the software tools do not exist yet to manage the expanded, evolving design process, he added.

Microsoft’s keynote is titled “What Does the Manufacturer of the Future Look Like? A Microsoft Perspective.”

Keeping up with the COFES theme of convergence, Microsoft will share thought leadership in the areas of connected products, connected services, factory of the future, intelligent supply chains, and the strategic trends that Microsoft is witnessing and their vision of a cloud-enabled marketplace of solutions enabling best-in-class solutions that work together, Tamburini said.

 

 

 

 

 

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