IronCAD’s expands CAD Productivity

We’re excited to announce latest release of IronCAD 2018 Product Update #1.This update extends powerful functionality added in 2018 in addition to many usability improvements to increase design productivity in your design process.

The 3D CAD platform of choice among metal fabricators and custom machinery equipment manufacturers, IronCAD’s 2018 Product Update #1 adds features specifically designed to increase detailer productivity by streamlining the steps needed to move 3D designs into the 2D production drawings.

Since collaborative design workflows are critical for fabricators and machinery manufactures, IronCAD 2018 Product Update #1 also imports and exports to the latest native CAD formats, supporting collaboration between design groups that use different systems.

Key features of Product Update #1 including enhanced game-changing bulk drawing feature and a dramatically improved shrink wrap modeling simplification utility for more secure, more inclusive file sharing to support active collaboration.With the new process improvements for the bulk drawing creation, parts and assemblies can now be selected and can store predefined templates that automatically populate the bulk creation process. This stored information can be used in conjunction with IronCAD’s powerful Catalogs of pre-made designs, speeding up the reuse of existing designs and saving countless hours that might otherwise be spent preparing designs for detailing.

Product Update #1’s shrink wrap enhancements include more advance preparation options for packaging up designs and reducing outputted data such as shell representations of designs, supporting secure file sharing options for diverse use cases.

Continuing IronCAD’s reputation as the easiest-to-learn 3D CAD platform on the market, Product Update #1 also includes usability improvements such as:

Quick feature creation from existing geometry by simply pushing and pulling on face handles to create positive and negative shapes.

Streamlined interface that improves access and navigation to many common commands.

Simple reconnection tools that support IronCAD’s intelligent attachment capabilities making it easy to relocate connected elements.

For a full list of IronCAD 2018 Product Update #1’s new features, visit www.ironcad.com/blog/ironcad-2018pu1.

Most intuitive BOM Intelligence solution

Solution targeted towards Electronics & Automotive industry, It requires lot of efforts and cumbersome process for Teams involved in Designing & Procurement of e-components to track:
# Obsolescence of Components,
# EoLs- Shrinking Components' Life cycle,
# PCNs - Part Change Notifications,
# get updated with global regulatory changes,
# Sourcing Components from countries,
# know components' compliance ,
# Comparing component manufacturers for your products ,
# insights about the market trends & your competitors technological trends

All this has been made hassle-free with this approach.

PTC Creo Augmented Reality

Picture an immersive design review where you could experience your product at scale, one,where single click summoned a 3D representation of your product. Then you explain your ideas to others more easily and find issues- or opportunities- earlier in the design process. And go on to share your design with anyone in the world.
Augmented Reality (AR) , is engaging , immersive and simple. PTC  has integrated Creo with Vuforia , their  world-leading AR platform , so you can author and publish an AR experience right from Creo with a few Clicks.
No Programming Skills needed. For more detail click here

Creo®GD&T Advisor Extension

Fast, Easy, and Accurate GD&T Creation

Geometric dimension and tolerancing (GD&T) is painstaking manual work, as anyone knows who has spent more time detailing a model than designing it. Worse, the very nature of this complex process means it is prone to error. With our partners at Sigmetrix, we’ve developed the Creo GD&T Advisor Extension to resolve these issues and put your focus back to where it should be – on your design.

Creo GD&T Advisor, an extension to Creo Parametric 4.0, provides both expert guidance on the application of GD&T and validation that it has been done correctly. When your model is complete, you can be confident that it complies with the relevant standard and is fully constrained.

Creo GD&T Advisor also improves your productivity when applying GD&T, reducing the number of mouse clicks and time required by up to 75%.The software simplifies the understanding of the complex GD&T standards by providing readily available guidance during every step of the application process. Rule sets included are ASME Y14.5-2009, ISO 1101-2012, and their associated standards.

With Creo GD&T Advisor, you’ll apply GD&T correctly the first time, saving money and reducing tedium.

Benefits :
•Increases productivity
•Reduces costs
•Provides consistency
•Eliminates mistakes due to human error
•Improves design communications, reducing the chance of
misinterpreted or ambiguous information
•Enhances GD&T understanding

The Diwali Hi 5 Offer- IRONCAD DRAFT

IRONCAD DRAFT is affordable, powerful 2D CAD software with an easy-to-learn user interface and unique 3D integration capabilities. Use IRONCAD DRAFT to analyze, leverage, render, and reference 3D model data created by customers and colleagues while still working in a 2D CAD environment with a familiar user interface and common tools for detailing.

Included in IRONCAD DRAFT 
is a library that contains hundreds of standard part designs with associated parametric data. Simply drag and drop desired
 parts into the design environment and specify parameters. Parts will be automatically created and laid out in a standard 2D CAD software presentation, saving countless hours of design time.

Leveraging Legacy Data & Expertise

IRONCAD DRAFT will not only import files from any major 2D CAD software while retaining technical data, it can also be used to convert those designs into 3D catalogues so that they can be leveraged for future projects. Supporting AutoCAD commands, IRONCAD DRAFT promises an easy learning curve for 2D CAD veterans wishing to collaborate with colleagues working in 3D and eventually transition to 3D themselves.

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Enterprise PPM in the Cloud

Oracle Prime enables you to evaluate, prioritize, plan, manage, and execute projects and programs via an enterprise project and portfolio management solution. Prime is a cloud-based solution with a set of tools that allows executives, project members, and field users to deliver projects efficiently with confidence.

Key Business Benefits

• Unite project teams and stakeholders with a host of collaboration and feedback capabilities on the cloud
• Integrate scope, cost and schedule solutions under a single platform • Integrated project portfolio and capital plan management
• Native, purpose- built mobile application provides users with a rich, targeted user interface and experience
• Leverage Oracle Prime’s easy interface and simple deployment which saves time, money, and reduces risk of change resistance
• Empower users with more autonomy and a greater contribution to value added work

Key Features

• Context driven, light weight user interface
• Global search and navigation to major functional areas
• Built-in Workflows with an option to expand via configuration
• Web based interface with no client installation or plug-ins
• Review and approval of updates to ensure project integrity
• iPad and iPhone applications support to update project data
• Flexible dashboards, performance scorecards and reporting solutions
• Innovative user interface and personalized experience

Creating a Digital Twin for a Pump : PTC Thingworx and ANSYS

“The technologies that underpin the IoT make it possible to integrate simulation with products as they exist and operate in the real world.”

Simulation has long been an integral part of the product development process; it greatly improves product performance, reduces development costs and gets the product to market much more quickly. The technologies that underpin the Internet of Things now make it possible to go a step further by integrating simulation with products as they exist and operate in the real world. This opens up a whole new era in value creation for companies to optimize operations and maintenance, as well as further accelerate the new-product development process. ANSYS worked with PTC, Flowserve, National Instruments and HPE to demonstrate this, showing how a simulation model of an operating pump can diagnose and solve operating problems faster than was ever possible before.For More details connect us at digital twin with IOT
For More details connect us at digital twin with IOT

Creo and 3D Printing-What you see is what you print

Additive manufacturing (3D printing) is the process of building an object one thin layer of material at a time. The definition is simple but the process is not. Designers often must use multiple software packages, a situation which forces them to export, redesign, optimize and re-import their model each time
Creo closes the gap between 3D CAD and 3D printing

With Creo, what you design is actually what you print. Say goodbye to the disconnected, error-ridden hassle of multiple software packages. Now you can design, optimize, validate, and run a print-check all in one environment, reducing overall process time, tedium, and mistakes. When you’re ready, simply send the file straight to the 3D printer.*

*Compatible Printers
Stratasys
Polyjet Technology (Connex), using Object Studio , FDM technology (uPrint, Dimension and Fortus) using GrabCAD Print
3D Systems
Projet 1200, 2500, 2500 Plus, 5500x, using 3D Sprint kernel embedded into Creo, Upcoming: Projet 3600, 3510, 6000 & 7000, 800, 950

Moldex3D R15.0 Release

Simulation can help you make quick and informed decisions in the early design phase. But problem is, simulation pre-processing is all too often time consuming and laborious. Moldex3D R15.0 offers enhanced performance, accuracy and better usability to streamline simulation workflow and provide faster turnaround times with added efficiency.

Here’re the top most exciting features in Moldex3D R15.0 that will enhance your next simulation projects and results, saving you significant time and effort. Get your next simulation project done faster, more efficiently with Moldex3D R15.0.

Goldfire: Advanced Research, Problem Solving & Analytics

Accelerate productivity and innovation of your engineering team

What if you could give your engineers back 1/3 of their time – speeding research, problem solving and ideation?

The ability to optimize efficiencies and continuously fuel product pipelines with new and differentiated products is critical to an organization’s success.

IHS Goldfire is a powerful Engineering Excellence Platform that helps engineers and other technical professionals achieve sustainable productivity improvements, solve problems better and faster, and out-innovate competition.

IHS Goldfire empowers faster and more informed decision-making by improving knowledge discovery, accelerating problem solving and idea generation and delivering insights into the competitive landscape, emerging technologies and market needs.

• Decrease product development cycle time
• Increase the innovation pipeline
• Accelerate market share and competitive position
• Drive top-line margin expansion, and
• Increase productivity gains

3D Coolant CFD

What Can Moldex3D Do?

• Improve cooling efficiency to enhance part quality
• Predict required cooling flow rate
• Reduce cycle time and costs
• Calculate flow properties, such as temperature, pressure, and velocity
• Predict potential welding line, sink mark, warpage, pressure loss, etc.
• Estimate transient mold temperature
• Support parallel processing to speed up the simulation process

Applicable Industries

Electronics, Mechanical, Consumer Product

Conformal Cooling Design Validation

How to design an efficient cooling system is critical for part quality and cycle time in the injection molding process. Among various cooling solutions, conformal cooling has gained importance due to its proven success in cost and cooling time reduction. Moldex3D assists users in evaluating the effectiveness of cooling layout design and validating potential molding problems.

Explore Moldex3D’s Capabilities

• CAD models in STL format can be imported and defined as cooling channels or heating rods in Designer.
• Baffle and bubbler designs can be simulated and analyzed.

MOLDEX3d : Simulate my Process for HOT RUNNER System

Hot Runner

Why Hot Runner Simulation?

Hot runner solutions have been utilized in various plastic injection molded products, such as bumpers, automotive instrument panels and LCD/TV panels. Advantages hot runner molds bring include material and energy cost savings and shorter cycle times, for the runners that are eliminated in the process. However, hot runner systems are comparatively more complex and commonly face the challenge of elaborate temperature control and the risk of thermal degradation of plastic materials. Moldex3D provides simulation tools for designers and engineers to obtain mechanism and critical information in hot runner molding. Users are able to investigate the processes and detect potential defects, and further achieve design optimization. Moldex3D helps companies to develop products with high quality and low costs and win in a globally competitive market.

Explore Moldex3D’s Capabilities for Hot Runner

• Simulate hot runner systems and visualize temperature distribution over time in the runners and moldbase.

(a) Hot runner system model 

• Validate hot runner systems and their sub-components including heating coils, manifolds and hot nozzles.
• Investigate various hot runner molding processes and their characters, such as injection pressure and clamping force, and detect defects including welding lines and warpage.

(b) Temperature profile inside hot runner mold

Moldex3D – The New Quality in Design of Car Interiors in Dr. Schneider Automotive

Industry: Automotive

Team Leader: Przemysław Narowski

Company/Team Introduction:  Dr. Schneider Automotive Poland specializes in high quality automobile-related plastic products – from innovative ventilation systems to highly integrated interior covers and sophisticated modules for instrument panels and center consoles that are not only aesthetic but also functional.

Story Overview/Challenge:

Przemyslaw Narowski is a CAE Engineer at Dr. Schneider Automotive Poland. He took on an unconventional approach to tell us his unique #Moldex3DStory. He uses three different perspectives in time: the Past, the Present, and the Future to take us on the journey with him to witness, experience and envision the evolution of a CAE solution – Moldex3D in his company. He explains from how the true need for an injection molding process simulation emerged within his company and why Moldex3D was chosen, to how it is used in a feasibility study of a new designed part now, and to the extended use of Moldex3D’s other simulation solutions to broaden their technical capabilities and the future outlook for a streamlined engineering workflow from CAD, through CAE to CAM. Multiple real cases are shown in his story to illustrate the accuracy of Moldex3D’s results and the values of using it.

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Solution:

Moldex3D is chosen to assist the design and development of plastic products. It is used in the whole product development process from the part design stage, the initial assessment for part feasibility including choosing the gate location, the cycle time estimation, etc. and to the workshop floor for troubleshooting difficult production challenges such as warpage, air traps, and other molding errors. For instance, in the case of a fuel filler part, Dr. Schneider Automotive Poland was able to reduce the warpage amount by 40% with the help of Moldex3D’s analysis in order to ensure the molded parts meet the required standards. In addition, for car interior parts, aesthetics is also very important. Moldex3D successfully helped solve an air trap issue of a car interior part to avoid a visible surface defect.

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Results/Benefits:

·         Test new designs for part feasibility such as the ideal gate locations and the estimated cycle times

·         Solved difficult molding challenges such as warpage (by 40% in one case) and air traps

·         Inspire “Reverse Simulation” concept for the future product development direction

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PTC Navigate: Unleash the Value of Product Data to Your Organization

Product data is your most valuable asset. Decisions that can impact product safety, quality, time-to-market, and profitability all rely on the accuracy and timeliness of the information that stakeholders in the lifecycle can access about a product.

With PTC Navigate, you have universal data access. Any stakeholder in the product’s lifecycle can access the latest, most accurate product information to drive better product decisions – with a user experience that is as simple and straightforward as the average smartphone app.

PTC Navigate provides complete, contextual, up-to-date, and accurate product data from systems of record like PLM, ALM, and others – without complex user experiences, lengthy training, inflexible integration projects, or long-term customizations. Leveraging ThingWorx technology, PTC Navigate apps can easily be tailored and deployed to roles across your company, and extended to include data from other systems of record and even data from smart, connected products.

"…these role-based apps will better enable casual PLM users to access and work with information managed by Windchill 11. This continues PTC’s efforts to democratize PLM and make it accessible to more non-engineering and technical personnel."

- CIMData
Read the full commentary (PDF)

ANSYS AIM 17.2: Expanding Upfront Simulation for the Design Engineer

The latest innovations for thermal management and bolted assemblies

With today’s latest release of ANSYS AIM, organizations can accelerate product design through upfront simulation, mitigate late-stage design changes, and reduce the number of costly physical prototypes. Now available, ANSYS AIM 17.2 enhances engineering simulation for thermal management, extends collaboration between designers and analysts, and brings upfront simulation to Japanese engineers in their own language.

“We are pleased that our customers continue to benefit from the rapid development of ANSYS AIM, allowing new applications to be solved with every release,” said Walid Abu-Hadba, chief product officer, ANSYS. “The new functionality in AIM will better enable engineers to push the boundaries of product design with its enhanced upfront simulation capabilities to speed up productivity and accurately predict product performance with ease.”  

AIM enables design exploration for every engineer by providing intuitive, guided workflows, accurate simulation results, and customization in a complete simulation tool covering a broad range of physics.  AIM’s ease-of-use simulation environment minimizes training and allows engineers to quickly become productive with simulation.

“ANSYS AIM's ease-of-use has allowed us to introduce key simulation skills and concepts to students using real industrial tools early in the engineering curriculum,” said Sanjeev Bedi, professor of engineering at the University of Waterloo.

Upfront simulation improves productivity of design engineers, by enabling them to make informed decisions early in the product’s life cycle, minimizing the need for re-work and re-design later in the process.

Highlights available in ANSYS AIM 17.2 include:

Thermal Management Advances
Optimizing heat transfer and thermal stress is a critical design issue for many industry applications, including heat exchangers, thermal mixing valves, engine components and electronic devices. Accurate predictions of the temperature and heat transfer in both the fluid and solid regions is essential to accurately predict the thermal and thermal-stress performance of the design. The new version of AIM builds upon its existing, combined fluid thermal and solid thermal-stress capabilities, supporting upfront simulation to optimize the thermal and fluid performance of product designs.
Momentum and heat sources are now available for fluid and conjugate heat transfer analysis, enabling simulations to include such features as electronic package power sources, fans and filters. Heat loads from a magneto-static solution can also be applied. Additionally, the new thermal transient simulation of solids allows time-dependent effects to be considered for solid thermal models with convection and radiation boundary conditions. Thermal effects can now also be included in polymer extrusion simulations. Combined, these new features and more improve the speed and fidelity of upfront simulation for thermal management.

Better Bolted Connections
Bolted connections between components are common elements in construction and machines. Accurately simulating bolt tightening sequences and the resulting contact pressures as well as frictional stresses between the parts is required to accurately predict the structural performance of bolted connections. ANSYS AIM 17.2 provides new options for optimizing bolted connections that allow engineers to correctly model loading and bolt tightening sequences for structural assemblies.

Enhanced Collaboration
Many of today’s industry leaders are working to improve their product creation processes by having design engineers perform upfront simulation. As part of these initiatives, design engineers may need to pass their simulation models to analysts to perform more advanced simulations or to validate their results. By leveraging the power of the ANSYS Workbench platform, AIM now enables collaboration among design engineers and simulation analysts through the drag-and-drop transfer of AIM simulation models to the flagship ANSYS Mechanical environment.

Support for Native Languages
Most product design engineers are more comfortable and productive when working with software in their native language. ANSYS AIM 17.2 introduces a Japanese language user interface, making upfront simulation more accessible than ever to Japanese-speaking engineers.

PTC Service Lifecycle Management System

Plan, Execute, and Optimize Your Service Business

Purpose-built for product-smart service, PTC’s Service Lifecycle Management (SLM) System connects people, processes and data to optimize service roles and outcomes. The SLM System enables service leaders to strategically plan, execute and optimize service throughout the service network–regardless of task, role, product, or geography–for continuous product and service improvement.

PTC’s SLM System provides advanced insight and deeper knowledge of how to best install, operate, maintain, and service  products to deliver the highest product and service performance. This empowers companies to transform into strategic service organizations that increase revenue, profitability, and customer value.

Key benefits

• Enables a strategic approach to building a service technology infrastructure

• Delivers a “single view of service” for better decision making

• Affords complete service visibility for business planning and optimization

• Optimizes service worker efficiency and accuracy for best possible service outcomes

• Provides connectivity with enterprise systems such as PLM, CRM, and ERP for closed loop processes with engineering, quality, customers and operations

• Improves operational efficiency of service network

• Increases product value and generates higher lifetime revenue

Comprehensive Capabilities

Manufacturers, equipment operators, and their service providers are expanding the role of service–using differentiated product and service offerings to drive revenue, profits, and higher customer value. But fragmented infrastructures, complex products, and fractured service networks are creating obstacles to service growth, making it difficult for organizations to support this transformation.

PTC’s SLM System maintains and analyzes service and product history to optimize continuous improvement and deliver the highest product and service performance.

Plan, execute, and optimize

Built specifically for planning around the complexities and dynamics of the global service ecosystem, PTC’s SLM System standardizes processes and technology throughout the entire in-service execution lifecycle to provide the lowest cost and highest value. This system maintains and analyzes service and product history for best possible outcomes (optimization) leading to increased value and continuous improvement.

The PTC SLM System is SMART

Product-smart. Service planning and information leverage product development data throughout the  lifecycle from design to new product introductions through to disposition. Service execution is aligned with specific products to include installations, repairs, maintenance, overhauls, and upgrades

Service-smart. Processes and technologies are specialized for service and able to identify the highest impact areas for improvement

The PTC SLM System is CONNECTED

• Connected People. Global but centralized workforce and extended service network that allows service leaders and company management to see a single view of service

• Connected Products. Products participate directly in service processes and delivery execution. They are connected to service, the enterprise, the operator, and/or the owner

• Connected Enterprise. Data and processes are linked between service functions and SLM, CRM,  ERP, and the Extended Service Network for improved knowledge sharing

• Connected Product Development. Enables ‘Design for Serviceability’ and streamlines updated change management between engineering and service processes. Leverages product and service performance information to optimize future generations of products

Transforming Service with PTC Service Lifecycle Management

The potential for service revenue continues to grow, and a consolidated view of service that connects service planning, delivery, and analysis will ensure that companies achieve maximum value of a product’s entire lifecycle. The PTC approach to Service Lifecycle Management (SLM) optimizes the system of people, processes, and technology to enable greater service performance and improvement. As a result, service organizations are more strategic and can focus on growth and profitability.

PTC Global Services

• Value Centric Engagement Model: Ensures cross-organizational alignment on key business objectives, a detailed roadmap that connects business need with technical feasibility, and clear accountability for program governance and decision making

• Ensures that PTC technology is aligned with your strategic business requirements, best practice processes, and organizational constraints

• Adapts to your priorities while minimizing deployment risks, accelerating time to value, and increasing

flexibility for future organizational needs

• Role-based adoption programs enable a customized approach tied directly to the deployment roadmap and to individual and work group needs for process improvements