Dassault Systèmes is attending the International Manufacturing Technology Show (IMTS) to showcase its manufacturing solutions portfolio, including planning, simulation and modeling solutions, featuring a virtual twin experience for operations that allows companies to assess their manufacturing assets, production lines and factories in a virtual 3D model environment. With a single 3D data model across operations,…
Remote collaboration smoothed the development of a new 3D printer
Taking its name from the popular Dutch drop licorice candy and 3D (ddd), dddrop B.V. has been introducing innovations in 3D printing systems since the company introduced its first 3D printer, the Recon, in 2012. The most recent 3D printer is the Rapid One Industrial 3D Printer, introduced in 2020. The company’s engineers, who used […]
Generative design for flow applications
Flow driven generative designer is a new application from Dassault Systèmes. Its intended use is to give users or designers access to simulation capabilities for fluid optimization. As many designers know, the process of creating a part is typically based on experience and intuition. Generative design, however, offers a different approach. Generative design programs use […]
Dassault Aviation advances its next generation Enterprise Platform: 3DEXPERIENCE for all programs
Dassault Systèmes announced that Dassault Aviation is using the 3DEXPERIENCE platform to design, develop and produce, as well as manage its value chain for all programs including a new one to continuously innovate and expand the existing Falcon range of business jets. The company can fully control aircraft development, better integrate business processes, improve performance…
Dassault Systèmes and Cognata announce partnership to accelerate launch of safer autonomous vehicles
Dassault Systèmes and Cognata, Ltd. announced that they are partnering to embed Cognata’s Autonomous Vehicle Simulation Suite into Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE platform. The partnership will help autonomous vehicle makers define, test and experience autonomous driving throughout the development cycle within the 3DEXPERIENCE platform. Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE platform brings features such as Smart, Safe and Connected […]
Do designers need to get physical?
As powerful and feature-rich as CAD programs have become, you can argue that there’s a missing element to the design experience. Even augmented reality does not deliver the needed experience, yet. The experience is actually touching a physical, three-dimensional model of the designed object. The digital world is working hard to replicate such an experience […]
Boeing and Dassault Systèmes announce extended partnership
Dassault Systèmes and Boeing have extended their partnership. Boeing will expand its deployment of Dassault Systèmes’ products across its commercial aviation, space and defense programs to include the Dassault Systèmes 3DEXPERIENCE platform. This decision follows a competitive process that included the rigorous analysis of technical and functional capabilities, cost and business benefits across the value […]
View, explore and validate product designs in immersive virtual reality
Dassault Systèmes, the 3DEXPERIENCE Company, leader in 3D design software, 3D Digital Mock Up and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, announced that 3DEXPERIENCE platform users can now view, explore and validate product designs in immersive virtual reality at any stage of the product development process with support from the HTC Vive Business Edition virtual reality […]
Users call the shots in CAD enhancements
SolidWorks 2016 is the latest release of Dassault Systèmes’ portfolio of 3D design and engineering applications. New capabilities of this software suite will make it easier to innovate, design, validate, collaborate and build, from initial concept to final product. User-requested enhancements include the ability to flatten any surface, visualize and validate design performance, more efficiently…
FEA finds best design for bearing seal on turbines
By Paul Heney, Editorial Director An engineering firm that designs seals for wind turbine bearings used finite-element analysis software to simulate the performance of a seal or gasket and then an optimizing package to runs through hundreds of design and material possibilities to find a best fit for a wind turbine’s wide operating range. “Reliable…
Dassault Updates 3DEXPERIENCE Portfolio with Release 2014x
One of the CAD giants, Dassault Systemes, announces the latest release of its 3DEXPERIENCE platform’s on-premise and on-the-cloud portfolio of solutions. Release 2014x of the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, available to all customers on February 24, includes an on-premise portfolio of 41 industry solutions and their 183 processes, plus a dedicated cloud portfolio of 14 industry solutions, […]
Dassault Systemes Acquires Visualization Software Provider RTT
In a strategic move to perhaps gain market market share in the automotive industry, Dassault Systemes, announces today that it has inked a deal to acquire controlling interest (85%) of German visualization software developer, RTT. Munich-based RTT develops high-end visualization and rendering software, such as DeltaGen, PictureBook, POS Configurator, among others. The acquisition will include […]
FEA Aids Deepwater Horizon Failure Forensics
By Leslie Langnau, Managing Editor On the evening of April 20, 2010, Deepwater Horizon suffered a blowout while drilling in the Macondo Prospect, an area in the Gulf of Mexico 40 miles off the southeast coast of Louisiana. The platform caught fire; two days later, it sank. Many attempts were made to seal the well,…
Help Clean Up the Ocean
By Leslie Langnau, Managing Editor Recently when I visited Dassault Systèmes to hear about the developments to SolidWorks 2014, SolidWorks CEO Bertrand Sicot introduced the press in attendance to Boyan Slat, a young engineer with a passion. One of Slat’s hobbies is diving. As he swims in various waters, he sees the effects that the…
Ensure Tolerance Information in a CAD Model
CETOL 6s v8.3 software for SolidWorks can initiate directly from the annotations that already exist within a CAD model generated by the SolidWorks design software, reducing the time required to model the dimension scheme. This new feature also allows f2-way associativity between the SolidWorks CAD annotation and the CETOL model. Changes made to the CAD…
Keeping carbonation bottled up with FEA
Verallia, Saint-Gobain’s Packaging Sector, uses Abaqus and Isight to optimize bottle shape and weight early in the design phase. by Chris Hardee, edited by Evan Yares/Senior Editor & Analyst, Software To Dom Pérignon, the 17th century French Benedictine monk, the presence of bubbles in the wine he produced was a fault that often led to…
CATIA’s latest design win: The Iranian F-313 stealth fighter
A few days ago, Iran announced a new indigenous stealth fighter: the Qahar 313. Theaviationist.com has covered the plane in quite a bit of depth. The prototype of the F-313 was presented to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, then displayed publicly. The FARS News Agency provided a large number of photos of the jet, showing many […]