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Finite Element Analysis (FEA) tools like Abaqus/Explicit or the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform provide a fantastic solution if you’re looking to investigate your product’s performance in simulation before spending the resources to develop a physical prototype. But for those that adopt these tools, there can sometimes be the hurdle of material modeling and its influence on your simulation’s ability to predict reality. Using improper material properties can lead to drastically different conclusions in your FEA simulations if you’re not careful. Throughout this blog, we’ll demonstrate what might happen to you and your product should you skip over the time and effort required to develop a proper material model for your scenario.

Simulation, or virtual prototyping, allows engineers to see the performance of their design in ways even lab testing cannot easily do. Even better, it’s often more cost-effective, more timely, and less laborious than everything you have to do to carry out a physical test. Something that valuable must be expensive and hard to implement, right? Not necessarily.GoEngineer has helped thousands of small to large businesses adopt and upgrade their use of analysis tools.

GoEngineer's simulation team can best be demonstrated by introducing some of the individual members. If your company needs simulation support, these are among the people ready to assist you.

Many companies move from CATIA V5 to 3DEXPERIENCE CATIA because of its powerful collaborative features, cloud database, and live updates. In this article, we review some helpful tips when transitioning to the 3DEXPERIENCE platform and highlight features that will make your life as a designer easier. 

The 3DEXPERIENCE Platform sees many updates and enhancements throughout the year - typically every two months with a "Function Delivery" (FD) release. One of these, 2024 FD3.0, happened in early July, and it added a great new feature for SOLIDWORKS users who are taking advantage of the cloud data management benefits of the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform.

A Red Line Markup is an annotation on an image or view of your item that identifies a non-conformity that needs to be passed on to relevant individuals to be corrected. This could be an error, a design revision, or an area that needs to be reviewed. In the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform, there are two types of Red Line Markups: simple and advanced.

There used to be a misconception about using 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS, suggesting that you must be connected to the internet at all times to use your seat of SOLIDWORKS. However, since 2022, users can work offline with Offline Mode. Offline Mode allows users to continue their work in 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS when there is no internet connection available.

Requirements are most often mastered on the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform using 3DEXPERIENCE Requirements Engineer. To leverage those same requirements downstream in model-based systems engineering (MBSE) tasks, you must import them into CATIA Magic Cyber Systems Engineer. Here is how you do that using CATIA Magic’s Data Hub Exchange. 

CATIA V5 (desktop-based) and 3DEXPERIENCE CATIA (platform and cloud-based), are top-of-industry CAD tools developed by Dassault Systèmes. CATIA's history with automotive and aerospace has made it especially suitable for certain design and manufacturing situations that are becoming more prevalent in other industries that may tend toward different CAD solutions. In this blog, see why many designers choose to supplement their current design solution with an upgrade to CATIA. We'll cover functionalities CATIA is known for, including the handling of large assemblies, surfacing, systems engineering, and composites, while touching on some additional capabilities.