Manufacturing Toolkit (MTK)

Simcenter Simsolid is a Siemens simulation and structural analysis tool that helps designers and engineers analyze fully featured CAD assemblies without geometry simplification or meshing. By removing two of the most time-consuming steps in traditional FEA, it allows teams to validate structural performance much faster. The software can handle large and complex assemblies, including models with rough contact surfaces, gaps, or overlapping geometry. Simcenter Simsolid delivers accurate results in seconds to minutes on a standard PC, making it useful for rapid design comparison and simulation-driven development. It supports a wide range of analysis types, including linear and nonlinear statics, thermal analysis, modal analysis, fatigue analysis, dynamic simulations, buckling, composites, and random response. With CAD interoperability, advanced connections, materials, boundary conditions, and visualization tools, Simcenter Simsolid helps teams bring better products to market faster.

Elysium’s DFX Analyzer is a geometry-feature analysis tool for CAD models that automates the verification of design quality relative to manufacturability, machinability, and moldability. It recognizes geometry features directly from CAD data, even when feature histories are unavailable, then evaluates them against a library of preset check criteria (which users can customize) across domains like plastic parts, sheet metal, and assemblies. Typical checks include wall thickness, undercuts, sharp edges, draft angles, boss/rib constraints, hole placements, narrow widths near bends, and bend-hole proximity. By surfacing potential manufacturability issues early in the design phase, DFX Analyzer helps reduce rework, save engineering time, shorten lead times, and lower manufacturing costs. It supports integration into existing workflows through batch processing, PDM APIs, and plug-ins for major CAD platforms.