Name: The Past, Present & Future of Optimizing Topology for Manufacturing
Start: 2021-01-22T21:00:00Z
End: 2021-01-22T21:01:01.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
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By using structural analysis tools early in the design cycle, businesses can save costs, reduce the number of design cycles and bring products to market faster. Easily handle the complexity of the varied design environments you may face. 

Ansys offers structural analysis software solutions that enable engineers of all levels and backgrounds to solve complex structural engineering problems faster and more efficiently. For 2024 R1, the structures product line introduces new features, enabling users to solve more complex problems efficiently. 

Join PADT's Lead Mechanical Engineer, Doug Oatis for a deep dive into the latest updates available for structural simulation in Ansys 2024 R1. This presentation will focus on:

- Materials
- Contact & Joint Element
- HPC
- And much more

Structures Updates in Ansys 2024 R1 (3) - Materials, Contact & Joint Element

In this webinar, discover how SAF 3D printing is revolutionizing the aerospace industry. Learn from an expert application engineer about real world success stories and significant benefits of this technology. Join us to explore how SAF 3D printing is driving efficiency, reducing waste, and enabling the creation of advanced, lightweight aerospace components.

Sky's Not the Limit: The Power of SAF 3D Printing for Aerospace

Create a Simulation Digital Thread.

Amplify the benefit of simulation throughout product development, to bring complex products to market faster. 

Ansys Connect is a toolset for creating the simulation digital thread. This links simulation to the processes, tools, and data used across product development. Amplifying the benefit of your physics solver by running more simulations for more users, helping bring more complex products to market faster. 

Join PADT's Application & Support Engineer Josh Stout for an in depth look at what is new in the 2024 R1 update for Ansys. This presentation will focus on the following: 

- OptiSLang
- ModelCenter
- AI Implications
- And much more

Connect Updates in Ansys 2024 R1 - OptiSLang, ModelCenter & More

Get everything you need to simulate, optimize, and tolerance your optical designs. Design high-confidence virtual prototypes that you can thoroughly analyze before manufacturing. 

Ansys Optics provides powerful capabilities that speed up the time to result, improve simulation accuracy, and expand interoperability with other Ansys products. 

Join PADT's Optics Application Engineer Cynthia De La Rosa for an in depth look at what is new in the 2024 R1 update for Ansys. This presentation will focus on the following: 

- Lumerical
- Zemax
- SPEOS
- And much more

Optics Updates in Ansys 2024 R1 - Lumerical, Zemax & SPEOS

When using Ansys Fluent simulation, material properties are a vital input. The accuracy of the material data has a direct impact on the accuracy of your simulation.

Ansys Fluent Materials Processing Workspace is a means to explore manufacturing applications such as polymer extrusion, blowmolding, fiber spinning, etc. within the Fluent environment. This provides a modern user experience for polymer processing simulations, with streamlined setup and wizards for common applications.

Join PADT's Senior Application & Support Engineer Daniel Chaparro, for a deep dive into the latest updates available for Fluent materials processing in Ansys 2024 R1. This presentation will focus on:

- Rheometry - Display of model properties
- Radiation modeling
- Post-processing control
- And much more

Fluent Materials Processing Updates in Ansys 2024 R1

Ansys offers structural analysis software solutions that enable engineers of all levels and backgrounds to solve complex structural engineering problems faster and more efficiently. By using these tools early in the design cycle, businesses can save costs, reduce the number of design cycles and bring products to market faster.

Easily handle the complexity of the varied design environments you may face. 

With a wide range of applications and product integrations, Ansys structural analysis helps you solve your toughest product challenges. For 2024 R1, the structures product line introduces new features, enabling users to solve more complex problems efficiently. 

Join PADT's Chief Simulation Engineer, Jim Peters for a deep dive into the latest updates available for structural simulation in Ansys 2024 R1. This presentation will focus on:

- Fracture
- Linear & Non-linear Dynamics
- LS-DYNA
- And much more

Structures Updates in Ansys 2024 R1 (2) - Fracture, Linear & Non-linear Dynamics

By combining interactive modeling and multiple simulation capabilities in a first-of-its-kind product, Ansys Discovery allows users to answer critical design questions earlier in the design process with speed and accuracy. This tool lets engineers focus on innovation and product performance, with an upfront approach to simulation that saves time and effort on prototyping as users can explore multiple design concepts in real time with no need to wait for simulation results.

Ansys 2024 R1 expands Discovery’s astonishing live physics, innovative user experience, and robust modeling tools, making it a critical piece of the Ansys digital simulation thread and the best place for every engineer and analyst to start simulation.

Join PADT's Application Engineer and Discovery expert Robert McCathren for an in-depth look at this tool and it's new capabilities in the first update of 2024 for the following areas:

- Physics Enhancements
- Model Prep Enhancements
- Usability Enhancements
- And much more

Discovery Updates in Ansys 2024 R1

Solve the most critical aspects of your product designs through simulation. If you work with antenna, RF, microwave, PCB, package, IC design or even an electromechanical device, Ansys provides users with the industry gold standard simulators. These solutions help you solve any electromagnetic, temperature, SI, PI, parasitic, cabling and vibration challenges in your designs.

In 2024 R1, Ansys Electronics delivers capabilities that speed time to results, enable new functionalities, and expand interoperability with other Ansys products for multiphysics and multiscale solutions.

Ansys Maxwell supports Flex PCB Layout Components, which delivers a streamlined workflow for noise-vibration-harshness (NVH) and a 10-fold decrease in the simulation time of ECAD and MCAD assemblies.

Join PADT's Application Engineer and LF expert Tyler Buntin for a look at what's new for the low-frequency tool set in Ansys 2024 R1. This presentation will focus on the following:

- Maxwell
- Motor-CAD
- Symmetry Mesh
- And much more

Low Frequency Electronics Updates in Ansys 2024 R1

Engineers worldwide use Ansys to design high-frequency, high-speed electronics found in communications systems, advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), satellites, and internet-of-things (IoT) products.

In 2024 R1, Ansys Electronics delivers capabilities that speed time to results, enable new functionalities, and expand interoperability with other Ansys products for multiphysics and multiscale solutions. Ansys HFSS 3D layout supports encrypted technology files, SIwave near fields, and Flex PCB for Layout Components. 

Join PADT's Antenna Application Engineer and HFSS expert Alex Moody for a look at what's new for the high-frequency tool set in Ansys 2024 R1. This presentation will focus on the following:

- HFSS
- EMIT
- SIwave
- And much more

High Frequency Electronics Updates in Ansys 2024 R1

Looking for more time to innovate and optimize product performance? Trust your simulation results with a software that has been extensively validated across a wide range of applications. With Ansys Fluent, you can create advanced physics models and analyze a variety of fluids phenomena—all in a customizable and intuitive space.

The 2024 R1 release delivers significant enhancements that improve overall solver performance, increase end-user productivity with automation and customization through the PyAnsys ecosystem, and improve workflows to meet the growing complexity of our customers’ CFD use cases.

Join PADT's Senior CFD & FEA Application Engineer Sina Ghods, for an in-depth look at what's available for Fluent in Ansys 2024 R1.

This presentation will focus on the following applications: 

- PyAnsys
- Meshing
- Heat Transfer
- Workflow & UI
- And much more

Fluent Updates in Ansys 2024 R1

Easily handle the complexity of the varied design environments you may face. 

Ansys offers structural analysis software solutions that enable engineers of all levels and backgrounds to solve complex structural engineering problems faster and more efficiently. By using these tools early in the design cycle, businesses can save costs, reduce the number of design cycles and bring products to market faster.

With a wide range of applications and product integrations, Ansys structural analysis helps you solve your toughest product challenges. For 2024 R1, the structures product line introduces new features, enabling users to solve more complex problems efficiently. 

Join PADT's Application Engineer and mechanical expert Robert McCathren for a deep dive into the latest updates available for mechanical, meshing, structural optimization, and composites in Ansys 2024 R1.

Structures Updates in Ansys 2024 R1 (1) - Mechanical, Meshing & Composites

In a field where innovation saves lives, 3D Printing solutions empower doctors, researchers and medical device manufacturers to work faster, test more thoroughly and personalize care like never before.

Stratasys additive technology and materials enhance personalized healthcare, and medical education, expedite clinical research, and drive innovative manufacturing applications. By enabling the fast, flexible production of medical jigs, surgical aids, and lifelike anatomical models with un-matched biomechanical accuracy, end-to-end medical 3D Printing solutions elevate and improve patient care.

Join PADT's Senior Application Engineer Pam Waterman, along with Catherine Wallace and Evan Hochstein from Stratasys, for a look at the advantages of using additive technology when developing medical devices and surgical models.

Improving Health Care with Additive

Ansys is the standard for optical, illumination, and laser system design in leading companies throughout the optics industry and at universities around the world. Discover new ways to turn innovative ideas into products that shape the world.

Get everything you need to simulate, optimize, and tolerance your optical designs. Design high-confidence virtual prototypes that you can thoroughly analyze before manufacturing.

Join PADT's Optics Application Engineer Cynthia De La Rosa for an in depth look at what is new in the 2023 R2 update for Ansys. This presentation will focus on the following:

- Zemax
- SPEOS
- Productivity Enhancements
- Optical Design
- And much more

Optics Updates in Ansys 2023 R2

When designing a new product or updating an existing one, it is imperative that tests are run to ensure it operates as intended in a given environment. Up until recently, these tests are often expensive and time consuming, due to the need for physical testing in order to ensure the accuracy of environmental conditions.

With Ansys Twin Builder, users can create a simulation-based virtual replica of an in-service physical asset — in the form of an integrated multidomain system simulation —which mirrors the life and experience of the asset. Digital twins enable system design and optimization and predictive maintenance, and optimize industrial asset management.

By implementing Ansys Twin Builder, you can improve top-line revenue, manage bottom-line costs and both gain and retain a competitive advantage.

Join PADT's Application & Support Engineer Josh Stout for a discussion on the advantages of using Ansys to build, validate, and deploy digital twins, and how updates in the 2023 R2 release improve this tool's value.

This presentation includes advancements made to the following:

- Hybrid Analytics & Scaled Deployment
- Reduced Order Model
- Solver & Model Library
- General Enhancements
- And much more

Twin Builder Updates in Ansys 2023 R2

Mesh influences the accuracy, convergence and speed of a simulation, and Ansys provides tools to produce the most appropriate mesh for accurate, efficient solutions - from easy, automatic meshing to highly crafted mesh. Smart defaults are built into the software to make meshing a painless and intuitive task, delivering the required resolution to capture solution gradients properly for dependable results.

With Ansys 2023 R2 comes a wide range of new advancements to equip engineers with easier workflows, speed up product development, improve simulation efficiency and increase productivity. New mechanical meshing capabilities are at the core of what makes this new release so great.

Join PADT's Chief Simulation Engineer and mechanical meshing expert Joe Woodward for a look at what advancements are available in Ansys 2023 R2. This presentation will include new features for:

- Nonlinear Adaptivity
- Support for Structural Surface-loads
- Post & Graphics
- UI Improvements
- And much more

Mechanical Meshing Updates in Ansys 2023 R2

Bringing an idea from prototype to production is no longer bound by the constraints of traditional manufacturing methods. Challenge the constraints of traditional manufacturing with Stratasys 3D Printing. 

Traditional approaches to manufacturing are no longer the only way you have to bring your product to market. It’s time to think differently about 3D printing in manufacturing. In the era of Industry 4.0, manufacturing with additive opens new doors. Shave days off production cycles. Remove complexity from final assembly. Produce lightweight, high-strength structures. Create hyper-realistic prototypes. Be more competitive than ever before.

Join PADT's Senior Application Engineer and additive expert, Pam Waterman, for a live presentation covering the fundamental value propositions of 3D printing for manufacturing, challenges facing those who wish to implement it, and how Stratasys helps users prepare for recent advancements on the factory floor, and elsewhere in today's manufacturing world.

Additive’s Role in Factory 4.0

Ansys offers structural analysis software solutions that enable engineers of all levels and backgrounds to solve complex structural engineering problems faster and more efficiently. By using these tools early in the design cycle, businesses can save costs, reduce the number of design cycles and bring products to market faster.

With a wide range of applications and product integrations, Ansys structural analysis helps you solve your toughest product challenges. In 2023 R2, the structures product line delivers new features and capabilities that allow users to perform more accurate, efficient, and actionable structural simulation analyses.

Easily handle the complexity of the varied design environments you may face. 

Join PADT's Lead Mechanical Engineer and Structural expert Doug Oatis for a deep dive into the latest updates available for Linear Dynamics & Structural Optimization in Ansys 2023 R2.

Mechanical Updates in Ansys 2023 R2 - Linear Dynamics & Structural Optimization

Computational fluids dynamics (CFD) engineers are keenly interested in accelerating their simulation throughput, whether that’s by automating workflows, upgrading to newer/better methods, or using high-performance computing (HPC).

One topic of particular interest is the use of graphical processing units (GPUs) for CFD. This is not a new concept, but there are many ways to achieve it — some more complete than others.

From easy, automatic meshing to highly crafted, Ansys provides general purpose, high-performance, automated, intelligent meshing software that produces the most appropriate mesh for accurate, efficient multiphysics solutions. Smart defaults are built into the software to make meshing a painless and intuitive task, delivering the required resolution to capture solution gradients properly for dependable results.

Join PADT's Senior Application Engineer and fluids expert, Sina Ghods for a look at the latest meshing updates and GPU-Solver capabilities available in Ansys 2023 R2.

This presentation will focus on the following topics:

- GPU/CPU Remapping
- Extended Monitors
- Sliding Mesh
- EDM Combustion Modeling
- And much more

Fluent GPU Solver Updates in Ansys 2023 R2

Join experts from PADT and nTopology for an interactive roundtable discussion on the ins and outs of topological optimization. This panel will feature topics such as: 

• Applications for topological optimization
• Additive manufacturing's role
• Challenges facing users today
• Advice for new users
• Where the technology is headed
• And much more

Moderated by:

• Eric Miller, Principle & Co-owner - PADT

Panelists include:

• Pam Waterman, 3D Printing & Support Application Engineer - PADT
• Doug Oatis, Lead Mechanical Engineer, PADT
• Duann Scott, VP of Marketing - nTopology
• David Busacker, Senior Engineering Consultant - Stratasys

The Past, Present & Future of Optimizing Topology for Manufacturing

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