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Simulation Process Integration and Automation

Manage all the logical steps in your engineering process from a single automated simulation workflow, also executable via a web interface.

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Complex engineering problems often include the use of a myriad of in-house and third-party CAD, CAE and general use software, resulting in a disconnected, difficult-to-manage process.
Also, performing separately parametric modeling and simulation analysis may become a time-consuming practice, leading to delays in the product development.

With our powerful simulation workflow, you can automate any kind of simulation model. This means integrating with any parametric solvers and specify in one click which parameters, constraints and objectives are required to generate innovative design solutions faster.

Automate, integrate and drive multiple CAD/CAE tools

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Save time

Automatically run repetitive simulations and avoid the painstaking process of manually combining the output from multiple applications. You can expect to improve the design performance by evaluating thousands of designs simultaneously.

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Increase process efficiency

Seamlessly integrate the most popular third-party engineering solvers into a unique, automated simulation workflow. Explore our continuously up-to-date list of more than 40 interfaces.

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Benefit from maximum flexibility

Rely on our EasyDriver guidance to easily integrate any additional commercial or in-house solver by developing custom, easy reusable nodes.

Work in a standard-based and open environment

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Using multiple tools is often necessary when dealing with complex engineering problems that could involve separate teams and disciplines.

In this context, the opportunity to rely on shareable processes and models is essential, and standards are key to make people and tools communicate.

Our software platform supports the Functional Mock-up Interface standard to exchange simulation models. You can export Response Surface Models as Functional Mock-up Units (FMUs) and also import FMUs exported from third-parties applications in the simulation workflow.

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Connect with any parametric tools (and more)

Our technology offers a variety of interfaces to couple with the most popular engineering solvers. Direct interfaces seamlessly connect with your simulation models, extract relevant parameters and allow you to select your process input and output in few clicks.

CAE interfaces

abaqus

Abaqus FEA

Dassault Systèmes

adamscar

Adams / Car

Hexagon MSC Software

adamsview

Adams / View

Hexagon MSC Software

asmi

ASMI

Autodesk

ansa

Ansa

BETA CAE Systems

ansys

ANSYS Workbench

Ansys

avl

AVL AST

AVL

cst

CST Microwave

Dassault Systèmes

grasshopper

Grasshopper

Rhinoceros

gtsuite

GT Suite

Gamma Technologies

hypermesh

HyperMesh

Altair

jmag

JMAG-Designer

JSOL

madymo

Madymo

Tass

metapost

Metapost

BETA CAE Systems

nastran

MSC Nastran

Hexagon MSC Software

romax

RomaxDesigner

Romax Technology

tetra

SC/Tetra

Cradle

sfe

SFE Concept

Dassault Systèmes

flomaster

Simcenter Flomaster

Siemens EDA

amesim

Simcenter Amesim

Siemens

simulationx

SimulationX

ESI

StarCCM+

StarCCM+

Siemens

fmi

FMI

CAD interfaces

catia

CATIA

Dassault Systèmes

creo

Creo Elements/Pro

PTC

simcenter3d

Simcenter 3D

Siemens Digital Industries

solidworksfs

Solidworks / FlowSimulation

Dassault Systèmes

spaceclaim

SpaceClaim

SpaceClaim

Application Interfaces

excel

Excel

Microsoft

labview

LabView

National Instruments

maplesim

MapleSim

Maplesoft

matlab

Matlab

MathWorks

octave

Octave

GNU Octave

openoffice

OpenOffice

Apache Software Foundation

Script Interfaces

Bean_shell

Bean Shell

Calculator

Calculator (JavaScript)

CPython

CPython

Cygwin

Cygwin Shell Script

DOS

DOS Batch Script

Easydriver

EasyDriver

Jython

Jython

Powershell

PowerShell

Python

Python

SFU

SFU Shell Script

Shell

SH Shell Script

Vbs

VBScript and JScript

Easydriver

If your preferred tool is not included in the list, the EasyDriver tool is available to set custom-made interfaces with any third party software (such as Converge, DEP Meshworks, LS-DYNA, Radioss, Recurdyn, and more) or in-house applications.

Tailored for your company needs

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Enterprise

If you look at making simulation models accessible and actionable via web, VOLTA enterprise platform gives you the opportunity to scale up the usage of our automated simulation workflow across different teams. This means that domain experts (aerodynamics, fluid dynamics, structures - to name a few) can define parametric simulation models and make them available to others (such as simulation experts, method developers, CAE engineers, and so on). Such models are all integrated in a multidisciplinary workflow ready to be executed via VOLTA web interface. At a next step, other engineers can perform design exploration and optimization studies without dealing with the workflow configuration.

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Teams

When you need to focus on a single discipline simulation or MDO (Multidisciplinary Design Optimization) study to solve an engineering problem, you can rely on our modeFRONTIER desktop solution. Its process integration and automation capabilities enable you to describe processes involving different physics in the form of graphical workflows, integrate all the software tools required and run efficient workflows for design exploration and optimization campaigns.