Design

Design in the Age of Experience: Design for Life

SOLIDWORKS Technical Update

Engineers and designers tasked with the design and building of new products must always focus on how a proposed product would solve a particular problem. Design is a powerful tool that can address myriad issues, but what if your goal was to create a design that could address a significant global challenge? Taking that thought a few steps further: How do today’s designers create a sustainable, resilient world for future generations? That question and more will be explored during the Design in the Age of Experience 2019 event being held in Milan, Italy, April 8-14. This event will bring together designers and engineers, architects, urbanists, buyers and marketers, design schools, and many others. Today innovators and designers are now tasked with using systems thinking to drive change in our cities, mobility, energy use, and daily endeavors. Design in the Age of Experience will explore how this line of thought is being used to drive change today and how it will evolve with future generations. This year’s event will be broken down into multiple themes, which will include: MATTER. Tuesday, April 9th. We will take an in-depth look at the material and its role in design today. Topics covered will include the role of designers in rematerializing the world; bio-mimicry; and hands-on experiences with re-engineered materials. HUMAN. Wednesday, April 10th. Artificial Intelligence is not making us less human, but more so. This day will be dedicated to the delicate relationship between design and the human experience. SPACE. Thursday, April 11th. As evolving ecosystems, cities are home to a population bigger than ever before. This day’s program will explore the tremendous potential of regenerative urban design. ART OF LIVING. Friday, April 12th. Design as an art form contains lessons on healthy and sustainable living. These sessions will uncover how design advocates for social change. SOCIAL FORWARD. Saturday and Sunday, April 13th and 14th. Our future-forward weekend program features a lot of hands-on activities and a discussion on the next steps towards resilient cities of the future. The Design in the Age of Experience 2019 event will also feature the 3DEXPERIENCE playground featuring inspiring customer design stories from companies such as Honda, startup GYROLIFT, EEL Energy, and Patrick Jouin and his team from the Colliders initiative. The event will also feature the Design for Life Hackathon that will challenge teams to propose unique and inspiring solutions to what the city of the future will look like. The competing design teams will consult with industry experts to address challenges, engage with Dassault Systemes’ developers to create designs, and then present their solutions to a panel of judges who will choose the winners.      

Simulation

Five things you can do with SIMULIA Structural Simulation Engineer that You Couldn’t do Before!

SOLIDWORKS Technical Update

SIMULIA Structural Simulation Engineer (SSE) Brings new advanced simulation capabilities to SOLIDWORKS users. With SSE, you can validate complex product designs fast and cost-effectively, helping to speed up innovation, enhance quality, and reduce time to market. Further, SSE integrates with SOLIDWORKS through the cloud-based Dassault Systèmes 3DEXPERIENCE® platform, meaning you can run simulations on both your local machine or in the cloud. Before talking more about the new and exciting SSE, let me remind you why you should seriously consider simulation if you’re not already. A simulation is already an important tool for any designer or engineer. SSE extends those capabilities by providing a tightly integrated, cloud-based solution to conduct advanced structural static, frequency, buckling, modal dynamic response, and structural-thermal analysis of parts and assemblies. Here are five things you can do with SSE that you couldn’t do before: 1. A new integrated workflow for high-end FEA: With the new 3DEXPERIENCE Simulation Connector in the SOLIDWORKS task pane, you can now access high-end FEA capabilities directly from SOLIDWORKS; it delivers a unique, easy and integrated workflow to solve more advanced problems while allowing you to reuse your SOLIDWORKS geometry, loads, restraints, and materials. 2. You can trust it: SIMULIA Structural Simulation Engineer is a new structural analysis solution on the cloud-based 3DEXPERIENCE platform from Dassault Systèmes powered by SIMULIA Abaqus, the market leader in FEA technology. 3. You can solve more complex non-linear analysis faster: You can perform structural static, frequency, buckling, modal dynamic response, and structural thermal analysis. It effortlessly handles coupling of multiple nonlinearity effects; including contact interactions with friction, sequential load cases, large deformation and strain.   This three-point bend problem (shown above) is highly non-linear; there is a combination of complex contact interactions and large permanent deformations at the same time. In SOLIDWORKS Simulation, the simulation stops at 77 percent after 30 minutes while in SSE it solves at 100 percent in only 7 minutes! 4. You can work on something else while it runs: Cloud computing (optional add-in) lets you run your simulation on the cloud and on more CPUs. While it runs remotely, your local machine is free to do whatever else you need to do… 5. You can mesh (and therefore simulate) anything with confidence: Advanced meshing tools are available, manual and automatic, solid, surface and beam meshers, a wide library of elements are available such as brick and quad elements for better convergence and accuracy, particularly good for solving non-linear analysis such as gaskets or other seals made of rubber being highly compressed. Below is an example of a hydro-forming T-tube that is being deformed under high compression. The continuum shells types of elements let us predict the deformed thickness of the tube and then improve the design while simulating the manufacturing process.           To summarize, with SIMULIA Structural Simulation Engineer, you can now access advanced simulation capabilities from SOLIDWORKS and solve more complex physics with confidence, accuracy, and speed. Visit the SIMULIA Structural Simulation Engineer website to learn more.