Best Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE) Software in Africa - Page 4

RecurDyn is an interdisciplinary computer-aided engineering software package whose primary function is the simulation of Multi-Body Dynamics. It simulates both rigid and flexible body dynamics by combining traditional rigid multibody dynamics with cutting-edge finite element technology for modeling flexible bodies, known as Multi Flexible Body Dynamics. RecurDyn is designed to analyze the dynamic behavior of mechanical systems in motion, including systems with joints, constraints, contact, flexible components, forces, and complex interactions between parts. Its solver technology handles the differential algebraic equations that describe multibody systems, combining equations of motion with algebraic equations for joint constraints. It provides a robust MBD-specialized modeling environment, fast solvers, extensive post-processing, animation, plotting, and tools for evaluating the motion, loads, stresses, deformation, and performance of mechanical assemblies.

Simcenter Hyperview is a high-fidelity CAE post-processing environment for detailed, interactive data visualization and exploration of FEA and multibody simulation results. It helps engineers visualize and analyze FEA results in 3D, manage large files, create animations, and make simulation results easier to understand, compare, and communicate. Built for simulation teams working with complex models and large result sets, Simcenter Hyperview provides an interactive environment where users can review simulation behavior, inspect model responses, and present critical engineering data clearly. Its flexible layout organization supports multi-page and multi-window workflows, allowing users to dive deeper into models and organize different views, results, and analysis windows in a practical way. It is designed to support high-fidelity post-processing so analysts can explore results visually, evaluate performance, and communicate findings across engineering teams.

Simcenter Hypergraph revolutionizes data harnessing, providing a seamless experience for analysis and visualization. As a powerful data analysis, data plotting, and data graphing tool, it offers a wide range of capabilities to extract insights from complex data sets. With an intuitive interface and math engine, Simcenter Hypergraph simplifies the processing of intricate mathematical expressions and empowers users to make data-driven decisions. It helps users uncover insights and accelerate CAE analysis by using advanced algorithms to process the most complex mathematical expressions, bringing depth to data exploration, whether they are decoding convoluted datasets or conducting thorough statistical analyses. Simcenter Hypergraph also offers extensive customization options, giving teams the flexibility to create interactive visualizations, build advanced analytical models, and design personalized reports that align with specified requirements.

Simcenter OptiStruct is a multiphysics and multidisciplinary simulation and optimization workhorse spanning implicit to explicit analysis. Its “One Model, One Solver” approach improves workflow efficiency, provides the analyses engineers need, and reduces time to results without compromising accuracy. True design innovation comes from assessing, refining, and optimizing the entire system within a single, integrated tool, and OptiStruct makes this possible. Engineers can assess multiple physics, including durability, heat transfer, acoustics, fatigue, and more, using one model to integrate structural and multiphysics analysis, streamline workflows, and accelerate time to market. Its open architecture allows teams to work with preferred tools, implement third-party code, and customize the software while maintaining the same model and solver methodology. OptiStruct sets the standard for optimization across lightweighting, structural, multi-model, nonparametric shape, and multi-material.

Optimize product designs and reduce time to market with FLOW-3D, a highly-accurate CFD software that specializes in solving transient, free-surface problems. FLOW-3D‘s complete multiphysics suite includes our state-of-the-art postprocessor, FlowSight. FLOW-3D provides a complete and versatile CFD simulation platform for engineers investigating the dynamic behavior of liquids and gas in a wide range of industrial applications and physical processes. FLOW-3D focuses on free surface and multi-phase applications, serving a broad range of industries including microfluidics, bio-medical devices, water civil infrastructure, aerospace, consumer products, additive manufacturing, inkjet printing, laser welding, automotive, offshore, energy and automotive. A uniquely powerful, multiphysics tool, FLOW-3D provides the functionality, ease-of-use and power that helps engineers advance their modeling objectives.

Khimera is used to calculate the kinetic parameters of microscopic processes, thermodynamic and transport properties of substances and their mixtures in gases, plasmas and gas-solid phases boundary. The primary users are researchers and engineers, involved in kinetic model development as well as thermodynamic and kinetic modeling for chemical engineering, combustion, catalysis, metallurgy, and microelectronics areas. Khimera ideally fits the needs of multi-scale modeling providing the link between fundamental molecular properties of individual molecules and mesoscale ensemble-averaged characteristics of the reactive medium: thermodynamic and transport properties as well as rates of chemical reactions. All the models can use the results of quantum-chemical simulations as an input, thus providing the possibility to recover properties without any experimental input from the user side.

Engineering software built for digital manufacturing The way we build parts has changed. Your engineering software needs to change too. A unifying technique for design, simulation, and manufacturing data. The nTop Platform approach removes geometry bottlenecks in design by achieving more efficient workflows, dramatically improving team collaboration with faster iteration, enabling smarter, more complex designs to meet performance demands. By utilizing nTop Platform’s breakthrough computational modeling techniques, design teams can process and evaluate more design concepts than ever before. Find the most optimal solution in a shorter amount of time. At nTopology we know that your engineering know-how is the most valuable asset in your organization. nTop Platform makes that know-how accessible, shareable and, most importantly, secure across your entire organization.

We have re-imagined our industry-leading and award-winning electro-mechanical simulation software into a new cloud-enabled ecosystem of applications. From rapid modelling and concept exploration to detailed simulation and virtual product sign-off, our latest applications align with your drivetrain and transmission development cycle. Intelligently integrated into the wider CAE world, Romax Nexus empowers your teams and enables Right First Time designs. For organisations who need a little extra help, we also offer a range of consultancy services to complement our simulation platform. Last year, we were very proud to introduce our reimagined ecosystem of applications, Romax Concept, Enduro, Spectrum, Energy, Spin and Evolve united within the Romax Nexus platform. Now, a year on, we bring you the next chapter in our journey, with the announcement of Romax Nexus R20.

SABR is a proven shaft, gear and bearing conception and design package. Developed to integrate into the design process and reduce product development time, SABR provides an intuitive graphical interface allowing the transmission system to be modelled at a level of detail appropriate to the current design phase. Additionally, it allows sensitivity studies to determine the effects of different geometric features, bearing types and gear positions, with immediate results. The solvers themselves are based on engineering standards as well as Ricardo’s product design, manufacturing and testing experience, and are continually updated to be kept in line with real-world test and development programmes. Simple and intuitive graphical interface for quick and accurate model building. Bearing analysis with life calculation and stress plots accounting for loading and misalignment. Duty cycles with multiple and complex load paths. Parallel, epicyclic and bevel gears.

CoTherm is a coupling and process automation software that acts as an ambassador between CAE programs. CoTherm makes process automation simple. It is useful for running sensitivity studies, a design of experiments, or running multiple CAE models as part of a single process. This capability can streamline pre-processing, transient analysis thermal analysis, or post-processing. With a CoTherm software license, we provide templates for common coupling or automation tasks. CoTherm includes optimization capabilities that determine which inputs used in your design are the best choice. Any CAE analysis can be optimized using the general optimization sub-processes. CoTherm's mathematically rigorous solution (including multiple global and local methods) removes guesswork and complexity from your design process. CoTherm natively supports many popular thermal and CFD codes. CoTherm's powerful tools allow the coupling of any software that can run in the command line or with config files.

The Capital Electrical and Electronics (E/E) systems development software portfolio encompasses E/E system and software architectures, network communications, and embedded software development capabilities. Efficiently design, engineer, and validate complex products in the context of a digital twin. Today's E/E systems are characterized by increasing complexity. They are reliant on the robust integration of electrical, electronic, and software systems. Use Capital, a comprehensive E/E systems development solution, to help you efficiently develop smart products. Radically increase automation with a comprehensive model-based digital twin. Seamlessly bridge the boundaries between engineering domains. Connect solutions in an open ecosystem with flexible, easy-to-use tools. Optimize electrical and electronic system (E/E system) architectures against targets such as cost, weight, and bandwidth.

DYNAFORM Die Simulation Software is the sixth-generation DYNAFORM product. It provides a user-friendly and intuitive interface with a streamlined design. The analysis process is fully based on the stamping process, which requires less CAE knowledge and minimal geometry and element operations. This latest release offers features and improvements such as an intuitive and streamlined interface, a tree structure to manage operations, a simulation data manager, customized icon grouping for drop-down menu functions, separate and independent applications, unified pre-and post-processing, multi-window view, access functions using right mouse button clicks, and more. It has support for large forming simulation models, a geometry manager, a process wizard for blank size engineering, minimal geometry and element operations, a new material library window, new draw bead shapes and library, and a coordinate system manager.

CAD-embedded finite element analysis software. Use a wider variety of study types and materials in your analysis. Inventor® Nastran® delivers finite element analysis (FEA) tools for engineers and analysts. Simulation covers multiple analysis types, such as linear and nonlinear stress, dynamics, and heat transfer. Inventor Nastran is available only in the Product Design & Manufacturing Collection. The Product Design & Manufacturing Collection delivers tools that work right inside Inventor—including advanced simulation, 5-axis CAM, and nesting, plus AutoCAD and Fusion 360.

WindowsLDP (Load Distribution Program) is a quasi-static gear design and analysis tool for external and internal spur and helical gear pairs. This software program has been adapted and used extensively by most of the consortium members as the main gear design and analysis tool. Variations of this model to perform surface wear and duty cycle analyses are also available. WindowsLDP employs computationally efficient and accurate semi-analytical formulations to compute the load distribution between multiple mating teeth of gears. With the predicted load distribution, it computes the loaded transmission error, root and contact stress distributions, mesh stiffness functions, tooth forces as well as other design relative parameters such as lubricant film thickness and surface temperature. User has the choice of using SI or English units in the analyses. WindowsLDP’s capabilities also include multi-torque analyses and manufacturing robustness analyses.

WeStatiX SHM combines true simulation-based Digital Twins with Artificial Intelligence into a revolutionary platform for infrastructure monitoring. It can be applied to any kind of structure, from bridges to tunnels, and even to slopes and rock walls, to provide accurate insight into the current and future behavior of the monitored object. WeStatiX can be used to improve structure safety, optimize monitoring costs, and reduce the environmental impact of the build world. All in your favorite browser. With WeStatiX|SHM, you can create custom digital twins for real-time monitoring of existing structures in the cloud. This is possible for many kinds of infrastructure, such as bridges, rock walls, slopes, dams, buildings, and much more! The system is based on the combination of several innovative digital technologies, and thanks to artificial intelligence algorithms it is a powerful tool for the inspection and maintenance of any monitored object.

Subject your designs to real world conditions to raise product quality while reducing prototyping and physical testing costs. SOLIDWORKS® Simulation is an easy-to-use portfolio of structural analysis tools that use Finite Element Analysis (FEA) to predict a product’s real-world physical behavior by virtually testing CAD models. The portfolio provides linear, non-linear static and dynamic analysis capabilities. SOLIDWORKS Simulation Professional enables you to optimize your design, determine product mechanical resistance, product durability, topology, natural frequencies, and test heat transfer and buckling instabilities. It can also perform sequential multi-physics simulations. SOLIDWORKS Simulation Premium lets you efficiently evaluate your designs for nonlinear and dynamic response, dynamic loading, and composite materials. SOLIDWORKS Simulation Premium includes three advanced studies: Non-Linear Static, Non-Linear Dynamic, and Linear Dynamics.

Powered by the 3DEXPERIENCE® platform, SIMULIA delivers realistic simulation applications that enable users to reveal the world we live in. SIMULIA applications accelerate the process of evaluating the performance, reliability and safety of materials and products before committing to physical prototypes. Delivers powerful simulation of structures, fluids, multibody, and electromagnetics scenarios including complex assemblies directly linked with the product data. Modeling, simulation, and visualization technology are fully integrated on the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform, including process capture, publication, and re-use. The value of the customer’s existing investment in simulation horsepower is maximized by allowing simulation data, results, and IP to connect to the platform and become true corporate assets that powers innovation for all users.

ELCAD offers a proven, stable and versatile solution for creating electrotechnical documentation, with maximum flexibility: highly automated and fully customizable to standards, industries, and your company's documentation tasks. This includes the provision of such standard documentation relating to orders and projects as cover pages, circuit diagrams, terminal block diagrams, layout diagrams, material lists and BOMs in the most diverse forms in the CAD system or Excel, wiring and connection lists as well as cable overview and cable assignment overviews. For over three decades ELCAD has been successful in the market as a well-engineered, highly efficient tool for the production of electrical documentation. Right from the beginning, ELCAD was data-compatible version by version and stands for the long-term security of investment. The entire operating philosophy is focused on intuition and efficiency. ELCAD is always at home on the latest Microsoft WINDOWS version.

YAKINDU Model Viewer (YMV) is a tool designed for the viewing of models created with MATLAB Simulink and shows the corresponding block diagrams with a similar look and feel as in Simulink. YAKINDU Model Viewer gives you the flexibility to quickly navigate, explore, and search very large and complex models. It provides browser-like navigation on diagrams, allowing a fast drill-down of the system hierarchy. It also features rich visualization, signal tracing, requirements tracing, gesture-based interactions, and much more. YAKINDU Model Viewer provides various views to visualize a model’s outline and the properties of elements.