CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
23 March 2005
Product News
Mathsoft and ANSYS® Announce an Integrated Solution for Engineering Simulations
Mathsoft and ANSYS, Inc. announced plans to integrate their solutions to streamline customers' product development.
The integration will closely marry Mathsoft's engineering calculation and documentation capabilities with ANSYS' simulation capabilities. Mathsoft's flagship engineering calculation software, Mathcad®, will launch from within the next version of ANSYS WorkbenchT, an integrated portfolio of structural, thermal, fluid and electromagnetic simulation solutions. The Workbench-Mathcad integration, available this summer, will for the first time let users automatically import Workbench data into Mathcad to drive and document engineering calculations.
This integration will open up a myriad of new possibilities for streamlined calculation and simulation. The integrated software products will act as a single calculation and simulation solution, reducing copying, pasting, transcription and inconsistent unit errors. For example, engineers designing an automobile airbag system will be able to automatically import ANSYS-generated analysis data into Mathcad to calculate maximum inflation pressures.
"Hundreds of engineering organizations use both Mathcad and ANSYS Workbench to design and analyze products prior to production," said Barry Christenson, product marketing manager at ANSYS, Inc. "As two very important tools in the engineer's arsenal, it makes perfect sense that they should work in tandem - or better yet, as one - so we intend to deliver that capability with the next version of ANSYS Workbench."
ANSYS Workbench is a unified product development environment that offers an integration across a wide range of design processes, including geometry modeling and CAD editing, meshing and pre-processing, advanced analysis, robust design and shape optimization. ANSYS Workbench is the integration tool for advanced coupled physics capabilities that enable product design across all applications from very simple to complex designs. The integration of these, and other in-house, technologies can take weeks out of the computer-aided engineering (CAE) process by eliminating manual file transfer, result translation and reanalysis time.
Mathcad enables engineers to simultaneously design and document all of their calculations. Via an intuitive "whiteboard" interface, engineers can combine formulas, text and interactive graphics in a single worksheet. When it is used as a corporate standard, Mathcad ensures compliance and accuracy and reduces risk.
"This collaboration will deliver a solution for our customers that streamlines engineering work and reduces the IT burden," said Mathsoft director of business development, Lisa-Jean Clifford. "That's the driving principle behind this partnership."
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