Inventor Professional Simulation

Best in class companies create fewer physical prototypes than average companies. How do they do it? By leveraging their 3D models to simulate and optimise design behavior before they build anything. With Inventor 2008, simulation early in the design process has never been as easy and fast.

Easier Digital Prototype Development and Simulation

You can now build and simulate your digital prototype and analyse its behavior in a single integrated development environment. Rapidly simulate the dynamic motion of your mechanical assembly and perform stress analysis on critical solid or sheet metal parts under real dynamical loads at different time steps to find peak stresses over a full operation cycle. The result is optimised product performance without having to build a physical prototype. Delivering a real bottom line savings for our customers.

With the new Automatic Joint Creation feature it is easier and faster than ever before to build a digital prototype. You can now rapidly run an initial dynamic simulation after setting simple dynamic parameters like gravity and spring stiffness. Assembly constraints are automatically translated to mechanical joints. Inventor has the most seamless modeling/simulation environment on the market.

The integration has been further streamlined and now mechanical parameters like contact friction, spring stiffness, actuators damping, imposed motions etc. can be entered and edited directly through the Inventor Parameter dialog box, enabling more efficient collaboration between engineers and designers.

More Functional Design: Export Trace Curves to a Sketch

Paths generated from Motion studies can be directly exported to a sketch for use in geometric modeling. This makes cam creation from a trace very straight forward. Better still, parametric 3D curves can be created from motion studies and leveraged for geometric modeling.

Integration of the Dynamic Simulation and Stress Analysis environments is enhanced to provide more control over which loads are included in the finite element analysis. A new group in the dynamic simulation browser shows all the components to be included in the stress analysis data export.

Multiple Time Step Analysis

Analysis based on loads at multiple time steps in a dynamic simulation cycle can now be exported in one single step eliminating the need to switch back to Dynamic Simulation for each time step.

All components that are included in the export group are evaluated at the indicated time steps, expediting the comparison of stresses at different times in the operating cycle. Only Inventor allows multi time step analysis of part stresses in the assembly context. Our competition can’t!

Stress Analysis of thin walled parts

A new thin shell element provides faster analysis of thin walled or constant thickness parts. Enabling efficient analysis of sheet metal parts.

 

Powerful and Accessible Simulation

Our simulation environment is the best integrated on the market and is easily accessible to our customers through Inventor Professional and Inventor Simulation Suite. Make sure your customers know we’ve made it even easier for them to be best in class and position the key strengths of our simulation environment in all competitive situations. We can help our users become best in class better than anyone else!

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