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Dassault Dazzles Attendees in Vegas with 3DEXPERIENCE

November 17, 2014 By Barb Schmitz Leave a Comment

Editors and analysts in the tech industry are infamously hard to impress, as most of us have spent years–some of us decades–covering the latest wiz-bang software and gaga gadgetry. Though I still stand behind that statement, I will say there were several moments during my recent visit to Las Vegas for Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE Forum that left me rather awestruck. Hard to summarize two information-packed days, but I’ll at least share a few of my “wow” moments.

William Teller, the founding editor of Fast Company, was the first speaker. He spoke on the topic of competitiveness today, maintaining that “average is no longer an option anymore” in today’s hyper-competitive markets and that “originality is the new acid test” for competitiveness today.

He also warned the audience to not let their experience and knowledge of their respective products prevent them from being innovative. “The more you know about something, the harder it is to ask those new questions you need to ask in order to innovate,” said Taylor. “You can’t let what you know limit what you can imagine.”

Customers tell the story best

Dassault had a great lineup of customers sharing their stories of how Dassault products are revolutionizing the way they innovate. First up was David Markham from Lockheed Martin who talked about the importance of effective collaboration. Markham said that manufacturers need to create environments for collaborative sharing to solve problems and innovate; what he referred to as “immersive idea dunk tanks.”

Markham shared Lockheed Martin’s Digital Tapestry that enables them to keep data intact from concept through to manufacturing. The pipeline of data at Lockheed starts at the concept development phase and then moves to design and analysis, simulation and optimization, manufacturing, assembly and test, and operations and sustainment–all integrated in one common data management system.

Lockheed Martin's Digital Tapestry enables the company to keep its data intact from concept through to manufacturing.
Lockheed Martin’s Digital Tapestry enables the company to keep its data intact from concept through to manufacturing.

Tony O’Neil from Anglo America Mining, discussed the how urgent technology advancements are for his industry as well as how important the mining industry is to the economy. “If you can’t grow it, there’s a good chance you’ll have to mine it,” he said. O’Neil lamented that the last great technology breakthroughs in the mining industry are 20 to 30 years old and that the industry needs a 20-year jump in innovation within the next five years.

The challenges faced by the mining industry include declining quality of resources and the fact that they must mine much deeper to reach the materials, which demands better technology. Though it was clear that Anglo America will be relying on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform to help with these much-needed innovation, the specifics of that work was not outlined.

On day two, we heard from Eric De Hoff from Honda who showed off some amazingly realistic visualizations of crash test simulations. He spoke to the importance of simulations looking realistic in order for non-CAE users to fully understand and how visualizations provide a great way to collaborate and communicate with non-experts, AKA executives, which solicited some laughter from the crowd.

Eric De Hoff from Honda showing how realistic the company's crash test simulations now are.
Eric De Hoff from Honda showing how realistic the company’s crash test simulations now are.

The Living Heart Project

Steven Levine heads up the fascinating Living Heart Project, one in which a working computer-based model of a living human heart has been developed and visualized for advancements in heart-related diagnosis and treatment and in the development of medical devices. He discussed how fragmented and disjointed heart research has traditionally been and that the 3DX platform has provided a common platform to bring this project to life.

A visualization of the Living Heart Project model being explored in 3D.
A visualization of the Living Heart Project model being explored in 3D.

Levine started his presentation by discussing the irony of how companies would never put people in cars that weren’t fully tested, and yet medical devices, such as heart valves, are often selected based on best guesses of cardiologists and surgeons. He showed a graphic of the Living Heart Project Timeline, adding that they were able to do more in 12 months what it took the collective medical industry ten years to do.

The visualization of the heart model, beating before the audience’s eyes, was beyond realistic looking, literally bordering on grotesque. After the session, I had the opportunity to do a virtual tour of the heart model in the CAVE demo in the 3DEXPERIENCE Playground. Donning 3D glasses and holding a 3D input wand, I was able to explore the heart. Though the demo uses a previous version of the heart model, which is not quite as realistic, it was amazing to be able to probe and see the inside of the virtual heart.

In a poignant and somewhat unexpected moment, Levine shared with the audience that his reasons to advance the Living Heart Project are very personal. His own daughter, now herself in medical school, was born with a heart defect that has required her recently to undergo her third heart surgery to implant a pacemaker.

At the end of Levine’s presentation, Dassault Systemes CEO Bernard Charles, came on stage to announce that Dassault Systèmes has signed a five-year collaborative research agreement with the United States’ Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that will initially target the development of testing paradigms for the insertion, placement and performance of pacemaker leads and other cardiovascular devices used to treat heart disease.

If you are interested in learning more about the Living Heart Project, check out this video.

Puzzles pieces fall in place

I must admit that before attending the 3DEXPERIENCE Forum, I was a sceptic of what Dassault was trying to do with the 3DX platform. It all seemed too abstract and celebral to seem of much benefit to real companies making real products. After seeing some of the work Dassault customers are doing with the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, however, the pieces of the puzzle are definitely falling into place for me.

The platform they are delivering to customers is providing them with more insight, which in turn is enabling faster and smarter innovation. The platform certainly is not just for designing products. It’s about having visibility into all facets of your business, your industry, your customers, and your data–of which is delivered through a very intuitive interface.

Overall I found the the 3DX Forum to be quite interesting, especially seeing how Dassault customers are using the 3DX platform to foster their own cultures of innovation.

Barb Schmitz

Filed Under: Catia, Dassault Systemes, News Tagged With: Dassault Systemes

Dassault Updates 3DEXPERIENCE Portfolio with Release 2014x

February 6, 2014 By Barb Schmitz Leave a Comment

One of the CAD giants, Dassault Systemes, announces the latest release of its 3DEXPERIENCE platform’s on-premise and on-the-cloud portfolio of solutions. Release 2014x of the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, available to all customers on February 24, includes an on-premise portfolio of 41 industry solutions and their 183 processes, plus a dedicated cloud portfolio of 14 industry solutions, with more than 60 processes, appropriate for businesses of any size.

Included in this release is SolidWorks Mechanical Conceptual, which was announced at this year’s SolidWorks World event. Reception for this new product among beta users has been positive, particularly for its collaboration features and social network-like interface.

“With SolidWorks Mechanical Conceptual, we were able to do four process revisions by the time our competitors were only doing their secondary revision,” says William MacLeod, senior engineer, Kennedy Hygiene. “The key reason for that is the collaborative aspect of Mechanical Conceptual, which permitted our customers to log in, see real time updates of the process and share ideas with us through the blog.”

Connect instantly to collaborate with other SolidWorks Mechanical Conceptual users through chat, screen capture, and on-screen annotation.
Connect instantly to collaborate with other SolidWorks Mechanical Conceptual users through chat, screen capture and on-screen annotation.

On-premise portfolio covers gamut of product development tasks

The 3DEXPERIENCE® Process Portfolio On Premise expands capabilities already available on the V6 portfolio and unifies the user experience for all processes and industries. Built to answer customer- and industry-specific needs for ease of use and lower training costs, the open architecture allows customization and the integration of customer data into a single environment. It provides a single source for truth by integrating all data required to create a process experience while eliminating costly IT operations, such as database replication.

A single, compass-like interface provides easy-to-use navigation, search, and collaboration in the 3DEXPERIENCE platform environment that is extensible to any discipline in the company – engineering, manufacturing, simulation, sales, marketing, finance, procurement, and management.

Cloud offerings offer users lower cost of ownership

The 3DEXPERIENCE® Process Portfolio On Cloud expands capabilities already available on the V6 portfolio and unifies the user experience for all Processes and Industries. Offered as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) on public cloud to provide increased flexibility and fast deployment, it includes services and support of the cloud provider in the price of the Processes, with Dassault Systèmes as the single point of contact.

The public cloud operates 24 hours per day, 7 days per week, 365 days per year, and includes maintenance, licensing and upgrades. Total Cost of Ownership is improved by reducing requirements for computing and storage, as well as facility and human resources costs, since hardware is no longer required.

A single, compass-like interface provides easy-to-use navigation, search, and collaboration in the 3DEXPERIENCE platform environment that is extensible to any discipline in the company. The on cloud process portfolio also includes the following out-of-the-box capabilities:

* 3DDashboard brings information from diverse sources into one fully customizable web page
* 3DSwym enables cross-discipline collaboration of communities of users from anywhere in the enterprise
* 3DPassport provides a single sign-on for every 3DEXPERIENCE application licensed by the user

A complete list of Release 2014x offers and operating conditions is available here.

Barb Schmitz

Filed Under: Catia, Catia Blogs, Company News, Dassault Systemes, News Tagged With: Dassault Systemes, SolidWorks

Dassault Systemes Acquires Visualization Software Provider RTT

December 5, 2013 By Barb Schmitz Leave a Comment

In a strategic move to perhaps gain market market share in the automotive industry, Dassault Systemes, announces today that it has inked a deal to acquire controlling interest (85%) of German visualization software developer, RTT. Munich-based RTT develops high-end visualization and rendering software, such as DeltaGen, PictureBook, POS Configurator, among others. The acquisition will include the company’s subsidiary Bunkspeed, which offers a line of powerful rendering software.

Dassult Systems, developer of CATIA 3D CAD software, has acquired RTT, a German developer of high-end visualization and rendering software.
Dassult Systems, developer of CATIA 3D CAD software, has acquired RTT, a German developer of high-end visualization and rendering software.

 

RTT’s customer list is quite impressive, including big-wig car makers such as Audi, BMW, Daimler, Nissan, Porsche, Ferrari, General Motors, Toyota, and Volkswagen. Customers outside the automotive industry aren’t too shabby either, including The North Face, Electrolux, Eurocopter, Airbus, Addias, and Hugo Boss.

According to Dassault Systemes CEO and President Bernard Charles, the acquisition was in response to its customers’ demand for high-end visualization and rendering tools that further leverage their 3D product designs for sales and marketing purposes. “Our clients express a growing need to fully exploit their 3D digital assets, to transform their marketing and sales as part of their ultimate customer experience.”

The purchase price of RTT will be paid in cash. Completion of the transaction is subject to customary conditions precedent, including the approval of antitrust authorities in Germany and Austria. Dassault Systemes intends to launch in the coming days a tender offer in order to purchase up to 100% of RTT’s share capital for a price per share of EUR 40. For more information on Dassault Systemes, go to its web site. For more information on RTT, go here.

 

Barb Schmitz

bschmitz@wtwhmedia.com

Filed Under: Catia, Dassault Systemes, News

The failed promise of parametric CAD, final chapter: A viable solution

November 18, 2013 By Evan Yares 5 Comments

Model reuseWhat is the failed promise of parametric CAD? In short, model reuse.

It’s a lot more difficult than it ought to be, for a variety of reasons. Several months back, I wrote a series of articles discussing those reasons, as well as some of the solutions that have come up over the years.  What was missing from the series was a final chapter; a detailed description of what could prove to be a viable solution to problems with model reuse: the resilient modeling strategy.

The resilient modeling strategy (RMS) is the brainchild of Richard “Dick” Gebhard. I wrote about Dick last June, in the article A Resilient Modeling Strategy. He’s a low-key guy with deep experience and serious expertise in the practical use of MCAD software. Over his career in CAD, he’s been a reseller for CADKEY, Pro/E, and most recently, Solid Edge.

RMS is a best practice for creating CAD models that are stable and easily reusable (even by inexperienced users.)  It can be learned and easily used by typical CAD users, it preserves design intent in models, and provides a mechanism by which managers or checkers can quickly validate a model’s quality.

Resilient Modeling Strategy

When Dick first started thinking about the concepts that make up the resilient modeling strategy, it was natural that it was in the context of showing the advantages of Synchronous Technology (The Siemens PLM brand name for its version of direct modeling.) In our discussions about RMS over the last year or so, I pointed out that, while I thought that RMS did indeed demonstrate the benefits of hybrid history/direct modeling in Solid Edge, for it to be taken seriously, and not be unfairly dismissed as a marketing initiative for Solid Edge, it needed to work with a wide variety of MCAD tools. I think Dick got where I was coming from, because he’s continued to refine and generalize RMS, with feedback from users of a number of MCAD systems.

In its current incarnation, RMS works particularly well with Solid Edge, as might be expected, but also works very well with Creo, NX, CATIA, and IronCAD (all of which are hybrid history/direct systems.) Further, with a few modifications, it can provide compelling value with SolidWorks, Inventor, and Pro/E (all of which are primarily history-oriented systems.)

It’s significant that RMS is also free to use. While Dick is available to provide presentations, seminars, and training, he has not attempted to patent, or keep as trade secrets, the underlying concepts of RMS. (He does claim a trademark on the term “Resilient Modeling Strategy,” which means that organizations offering commercial training on RMS will need to get Dick’s OK to use the term.)

Dick has posted an introductory presentation on RMS at resilientmodeling.com. While the entire presentation is 20 minutes long, the first 3-1/2 minutes cover the problems that people invariably experience when reusing or editing history-based CAD models. Watching that much will likely convince you to watch the rest.

On Wednesday, November 20, at 10:00 AM PST, Dick will be hosting a webinar on RMS. It’s scheduled to last just 30 minutes, with the emphasis on content, not hype. If you’re a serious CAD user or a CAD manager (or, for that matter, you work for an MCAD developer), it’ll be well worth your time to attend.

TL;DR: Resilient Modeling Strategy is a best practice for creating high quality reusable 3D MCAD models. It works with many CAD systems, it’s easy to learn and use, and it’s free. Big payoff for MCAD users. 

Presentation at resilientmodeling.com

Register for Nov 20 webinar on Resilient Modeling

 

 

 

Filed Under: Catia, Creo, Evan Yares, Featured, Inventor, News, Pro/Engineer, Siemens PLM, SolidWorks Tagged With: 3D CAD, Catia, Dassault Systemes, Evan Yares, Inventor, IronCAD, PTC, Siemens PLM, Solid Edge, SolidWorks

3D Master

May 28, 2013 By Evan Yares 3 Comments

3D MCAD is not “done.”  Not by any means.

Well over 40 years after the introduction of commercial 3D MCAD products, and 25 years after the introduction of feature-based solid modeling MCAD, many MCAD programs aren’t totally 3D. They’re 2D/3D.

What I mean by this is that their 3D capabilities are inadequate to represent real world products fully in 3D.  They have to rely on 2D drawings as a crutch, because their 3D annotation tools (GD&T and PMI) are either weak, or missing entirely.

In short, with many CAD systems, 2D is the master. Not 3D.

Recently, Dassault Systemes posted an excellent video showing the benefits of using a 3D master approach. I think it provides a good starting point for the discussion.

Filed Under: Catia, Evan Yares, News Tagged With: Catia

Now that Siemens PLM has acquired Vistagy, will Dassault Systemes play nice?

May 10, 2012 By Evan Yares 6 Comments

You may know that Siemens PLM recently acquired Vistagy, whose Fibersim software has been used to design 80% of the composites currently flying in today’s aircraft.

Vistagy has been a long-term third-party partner not just to Siemens PLM, but also to Dassault Systemes. Though DS has its own composite design solution, many of its most important customers use Fibersim. To say Vistagy has been an important partner for DS would be an understatement.

Siemens PLM Vistagy Fibersim

My interest in Vistagy is as a microcosm of the relationship between Siemens PLM and Dassault Systemes. Let’s face it: These two companies are serious competitors. Has Siemens acquisition of Vistagy upset a tenuous détente (if it can even be called that) between these two giants of PLM?

This week at Siemens PLM Connection, I got a chance to speak with Steve Luby, the current Sr. VP of Siemens’ Specialized Engineering Software business segment, and former CEO of Vistagy. He told me that he’d always been careful in maintaining Vistagy’s relationship with DS. Since Vistagy had been a long-term partner to both DS and Siemens PLM, he got used to treading carefully. Since the Siemens acquisition, Luby explained, DS has not done anything precipitous (such as tossing Vistagy/Siemens out of their partner program.)

But that’s not surprising. Doing that would be the equivalent of mutually assured destruction. It’d be tough to explain to the biggest aerospace firms in the world that, oops, they can’t use Vistagy’s products anymore.

My guess, though, is that DS is focusing big energy on improving their composite solution (which I understand is mighty competent already), with the eye to displacing as many seats of Fibersim as they can. Yet, even in the best of all worlds, that’s going to be hard to do. I can’t imagine Boeing, for example, dropping Fibersim from the toolset used on the 787 Dreamliner—a plane that’s 50% composites by weight.

I don’t anticipate that DS is going to open their doors, and let Siemens/Vistagy have completely unfettered access to their APIs (and customers!) The current Vistagy products, including applications for composites, airframe fasteners, and automotive/aerospace seating, are probably grandfathered in. But future Specialized Engineering (i.e., Vistagy) products?

It’s a big wild-card. The new Codex of PLM Openness that both DS and Siemens recently signed would suggest that the companies are going to play nicer together than they have in the past. Yet, my reading of the Codex is that it gives an awful lot of wiggle room.

The Siemens Vistagy acquisition presents a nice public context for DS to show that they’re committed to openness. To playing (competing) nice. If my reading between the lines is right, the situation is “so far, so good.” If you’re a Vistagy customer, and you hear anything different (good or bad), I’d sure like to hear about it.

Filed Under: Catia, Dassault Systemes, Evan Yares, Featured, Siemens PLM, Siemens PLM & Events Tagged With: Dassault Systems, fibersim, Siemens PLM, vistagy

Michigan Autonomous Aerial Vehicle robots take flight

January 18, 2012 By Laura Carrabine Leave a Comment

Danny Ellis was first introduced to CAD in high school with a course in Autodesk Inventor. As he advanced into the engineering program at the University of Michigan, he was introduced to CATIA.

“In between my freshman and sophomore years, I became irritated at how cumbersome it was to rotate a model using a traditional mouse. I thought I could get a trackball mouse and program it so when I rotate the mouse it rotates the part on screen. That’s when I came across 3Dconnexion. I ordered their SpaceNavigator right away,” said Ellis.

In 2009 during his senior year, Ellis began researching an aerial robot competition. Five days later, he started the Michigan Autonomous Aerial Vehicles (MAAV) team with 15 members. Within one week, the team kicked off their first quadrotor design for the International Aerial Robotics Competition (IARC). At the end of the first year, MAAV successfully built two quadrotor vehicles capable of manual flight.

“The IARC challenge is to build a flying robot of any type you want. We chose a four-rotor helicopter that can fly through an unknown building completely on its own,” added Ellis. “There can be no communication with the device. The robot follows signs, must avoid detection from security cameras, locate a room, retrieve a flash drive, drop off the decoy, and get out in less than 10 minutes. No one has completed the mission yet, but we are one of the better teams competing. It’s the most challenging mission to date.”

When Ellis started the team, he wanted to get a 3Dconnexion 3D mouse for everyone. “It makes modeling CAD designs so much faster and easier,” said Ellis. IN addition, the team quickly realized trying to fly the quadrotor with a standard joystick didn’t mimic the movements very well and wasn’t intuitive enough for the user. A 3D mouse could mimic the exact movement of the robot. It was at this point the team decided to take matters into their own hands and control flight with a 3D mouse.

“We use the 3Dconnexion SDK to develop a driver to control the quadrotor with the SpaceExplorer and it quickly allowed us to control pitch and roll, zoom control height, and rotation control yaw,” noted Ellis. “In addition, The SpaceExplorer’s Intelligent Function Keys control other commands such as on/off and camera control.”

Today, Ellis is still the head of the MAAV team while also completing two masters in aerospace engineering and robotics. He continues to use CATIA for all of his designing both for the team and his class projects. He also works at a student lab training other students involved in competitions in CAD modeling and machining.

He uses the SpacePilot Pro. “A 3D mouse allows me to easily interact with the model while clicking and drawing in 3D at the same time,” he said.

3Dconnexion

www.3dconnexion.com

 

 

 

Filed Under: 3D CAD Package Tips, Catia, Catia Blogs, Catia News & Events Tagged With: 3D, 3Dconnexion, cad, Catia, Danny Ellis, IARC, Inventor, MAAV, Michigan, robotics, SpaceExplorer, SpaceNavigator

Ice Dream: Towing an iceberg for fresh water

January 10, 2012 By Laura Carrabine Leave a Comment

“With the world’s water resources projected to diminish by one third in the next two decades, providing pure water to an ever- increasing world population is vital,” Mougin explained. To Mougin and Mauviel, one solution would be to transport icebergs to areas that lack fresh water for drinking and even cooling purposes. The scientific challenges are impressive — capturing a large iceberg that can weigh up to 7 million tons, protecting it from melting while transporting it across the ocean, securing and optimizing the trajectory with respect to meteorological and oceanographic conditions, and breaking up the iceberg to turn it into drinking water.

Dassault Systèmes worked with Mougin and his team to simulate the iceberg’s trajectory and its evolution by taking into account data such as variations in ocean temperatures, wind force and direction, sea currents, and boat drag force. They inserted this data into a 3D model of the iceberg to simulate what would happen all along the voyage.

The critical challenge presented to Dassault Systèmes’ engineers was to demonstrate, using virtual technology, the technical feasibility of displacing the iceberg in a controlled manner while reducing its melting. The project, managed by Cédric Simard, Interactive Strategy & Marketing Project Director at Dassault Systèmes, involved a number of steps:

  1. Model the iceberg with CATIA based on a cloud of points obtained by scanning a real iceberg with radar.
  2. Calculate and simulate the way the iceberg would melt using CATIA Systems and SIMULIA.
  3. Simulate the way the iceberg would melt if surrounded by a protective isothermal “skirt” imagined by Mougin to slow the melting process.
  4. Calculate how much fuel the boats would consume depending on the winds and currents encountered along the way

Various scenarios were simulated, such as number of boats needed, different departure dates and climate conditions, and the behavior of the boats and iceberg in the event of a storm or turbulence. In addition to enabling the team to visualize these scenarios, the simulation also allowed the scientists to test how to deploy the isothermal skirt around the iceberg.

Dassault Systemes

www.3ds.com

Filed Under: Catia, Catia Blogs, Featured, PTC News, Simulation Software Tagged With: Catia, Dassault, Simulia

New software slated to change the workplace

January 3, 2012 By Laura Carrabine Leave a Comment

CAD software vendors have touted product usability for a long time. However, they haven’t really delivered on that promise until recently. There were a few software debuts in 2011 that changed that premise. True user usability could lead to a broader CAD audience and a bigger market share.

The product development team at PTC came up with the idea of a creating single program that does everything versus offering diverse programs with no connectedness. The strategy addresses its customer base and the trend toward solid modeling for the masses. Creo 1.0 is the result of that concept. The software currently has nine applications including Creo Parametric, Direct, Illustrate, Schematics, View MCAD, View ECAD, Sketch, and Layout.

The company focused on a group of traditional user problems and applied a core of technologies against them, specific roles having options for modeling modes with the click of an app. Simplifying a process that has plagued engineers and designers for decades makes using the software and being productive all the difference. The Creo GUI is much cleaner than the Pro/E GUI. According to those who have used the new product, the GUI strategy is most evident in Creo Parametric and Creo Direct. PTC leveraged the best features from CoCreate and made it easier to use. The company added features to Creo Parametric that will make Pro/E seem like ancient technology. Creo proves that a feature can live in a history-based and history-free environment keeping the parametric relation to features within each if needed.

Another 2011 debut was SolidWorks 2012 that also sports new features to help a more diverse audience. The software has improvements in assembly and drawing capabilities, built-in simulation, design costing, routing, image and animation creation, and product data management. Dassault Systemes says SolidWorks 2012 will help automate design functions, change product development processes, and extend support for collaboration and connectivity. This technology could change how the software is marketed and sold. The product helps users streamline design processes by removing traditional steps.

Autodesk’s AutoCAD 2012 and Design Suite 2012 series are available in a range of offerings including web and mobile applications. Thus more users have access to the technology and can stay connected to their work no matter where they are.  In addition, AutoCAD 2012 and Design Suite 201212 are directly connected to the free AutoCAD WS web and mobility application.

With CAD pretty much saturating the engineering and manufacturing arena, CAD vendors are realizing that pumping out a redressed version of what went out the door at the last launch is not going to work much longer. They have to offer tools that appeal to other audiences. We have seen that starting to happen in the retail, hobby, and jewelry industries where non-engineering types are using 3D programs to crank out new products.

PTC
www.ptc.com

Dassault Systemes
www.3ds.com

Autodesk
www.autodesk.com

Filed Under: Autocad Blogs, Autodesk, Autodesk News, Catia, Catia Blogs, Catia News & Events, PTC News, SolidWorks, SolidWorks Blogs, SolidWorks News & Events Tagged With: 3D CAD, AutoCAD, Autodesk, Catia, Design Suite, PTC Creo, SolidWorks

Sea monster of a yacht

September 21, 2011 By Laura Carrabine Leave a Comment

The Volvo Ocean Race for 2011-2012 includes 70-ft Mar Mosto, the “Monster of the Sea” entry. Designed by Juan Yacht Design of Valencia, Spain and constructed at New England Boatworks in Portsmouth, RI, the mono-hull was created to sail around the world and face extreme conditions.

The yacht weighs approximately 15 tons and will reach speeds up to 40.5 knots (46.6 mph) during the race. According to designer Juan Kouyoumdjian, the design process was divided into two sections: research and development and manufacturing. His team used Catia software as the basis of the 3D modeling, Hyperworks for the structural analysis, and Star CCM for all the CFD work such as hydrodynamics, aerodynamics, and structures.

For the 2011-2012 race, Puma Ocean Racing partnered with Berg Propulsion, a leading designer and producer of controllable pitch propellers for commercial shipping. During the nine months of the Volvo Ocean Race which starts in Alicante, Spain in November 2011 and concludes in Galway, Ireland in July 2012, the teams will sail more than 39,000 nautical miles.

Other interesting facts about Mar Mosto

Mast height: 105 ft
Boom length: 28.5 ft
Total sail area: 2,215 sq ft
Mainsail area: 1,884 sq ft
Spinnaker area: 5,384 sq ft
Boat material: carbon fiber
Sail material: Aramid/Spectra Blend
Build hours: 39,536
Paint hours: 600

Puma Ocean Racing
www.pumaoceanracing.com

Dassault Systemes
www.3ds.com

Altair
www.altair.com

CD-Adapco
www.cd-adapco.com

Filed Under: 3D CAD Package Tips, CAD Package, Catia, Catia News & Events, Simulation Software Tagged With: Altair, Catia, CD-Adapco, Dassault, Hyperworks, Juan Yacht Design, New England Boatworks, Puma, Star CCM 3C CAD, Volvo

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