Simplifying the CAD to Simscape Multibody Workflow with SimWise: Key Features and Benefits
Key Features:
- Direct CAD Integration: Open assembly models directly from leading CAD systems, streamlining the data transfer process.
- CAD Plug-ins Compatibility: Plug-ins for six CAD systems enable assembly model and constraint transfers, ensuring seamless integration.
- Automatic Constraint Conversion: Assembly constraints are automatically converted to motion joints, simplifying model setup.
- Motion Specific Objects: Add springs, dampers, forces, moments, motors, and actuators to refine the multibody model.
- Model Performance Validation: Simulate the multibody model to ensure correct performance before transferring to Simscape Multibody.
- Data Transfer to Simscape Multibody: Easily transfer data from SimWise to Simscape Multibody for further simulation and integration.
- Associative Model Updates: Changes to CAD models automatically update the SimWise model, maintaining data consistency.
Benefits:
- Time Efficiency: Drastically reduce time spent moving from CAD to Simscape Multibody, with model definition taking minutes or hours instead of days.
- Leverage Existing CAD Data: Utilize existing CAD data, eliminating the need to recreate models from scratch.
- Task-specific Tool Utilization: Use CAD for parts and assembly definition, SimWise for multibody definition, and Simscape Multibody for simulation and control system integration.
- Early Design Cycle Integration: Implement Simscape Multibody earlier in the design process, as design changes can be handled more efficiently with SimWise.
By leveraging SimWise's key features, engineers and designers can significantly simplify the CAD to Simscape Multibody workflow, improving overall efficiency and enabling more effective collaboration between design, simulation, and control system development teams.