As a technology house, supporting many different customers, in many different industries, SIMTEQ Engineering has seen it all. From designs born on cigarette boxes and coming to life as manufacturing progresses, to completely virtually designed and commissioned products that saw very little design improvements needed over time. As a technology house, SIMTEQ Engineering has access […]

The power and cost saving aspect of using Computational Parts can be seen in this quick test. In a quick comparison, a second assembly analysis of 8 parts took only 63% of the time compared to the initial analysis. This was made possible by the computational parts that MSC Apex creates automatically when solving assemblies. […]

The steps below show an overview on how to use Topology Optimization (Design by Mass and Volume) correctly (read Doing Topology Optimization right for more background on this subject). This procedure can be used very successfully to create economically designed parts from scratch with minimum effort. The most important aspect of this process is that […]

See Doing Topology Optimisation Right for the introduction to this section. In preparation for topology optimisation, using load cases exported from Adams or Vi-Rail (see Extracting loads for FEA from Multi Body Dynamics (MBD) Software), the model should have no constraints defined. For this reason, an “inertia relief” setting is added to enable a static analysis […]

This tutorial provides the steps for identifying and extracting load cases from Adams View, Adams Car, or Vi-Rail for use in Finite Element Analysis (FEA). This method is particularly useful when all the significant load cases are required for designing a structure from scratch using topology optimization techniques (see Doing topology optimization right). Exporting Load […]