Live Webinar: Leveraging Parasolid Part Data for Composite Manufacturing in Fibersim

July 12, 2023 2:00 PM EST

Join SDA Engineer Dylan Smith live on June 22nd to learn how to import your data from software like Siemens NX and Solidworks into Fibersim, the industry standard software for composites, in this free webinar.

  • Open Solidworks files directly in NX
  • Prepare model geometry in NX
  • Create Fibersim laminate data
  • Receive part revisions due to design changes
  • Import new models
  • Update changed features in Fibersim
  • Export offset surface and compare with original model

Fibersim software is a powerful add-in for NX, Pro/E, and Catia. It greatly simplifies the task of design, analysis, and manufacture of composite parts by giving engineers the tools to easily modify, update, and iterate on composite designs. This allows the engineer to work with combinations of material types, fiber orientations, stack-up orders, balance, symmetry, drop-offs, splices, and dart definitions.

The add-in integrates this large set of attributes into the design by automatically creating ply-geometry, assessing ply-level profitability, and providing excellent exchange of analysis and manufacturing data.

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Fibersim Configurations

Fibersim Pro

Main Capabilities:

  • Ply Based Design
  • Multi-Ply Based Design
  • Producibility Simulation
  • Parametric Surface Offset

Function:

  • Manual ply design
  • Specification driven automated ply design
  • Simulation- hand lay-up, automated lay-up, forming ply shift
  • Tools for making a manufacturable design – splicing, darting
  • Parametric Surface Offset – automated IML surface/solid creation

Value:

  • Increase production development efficiency
  • Increase efficiency and reduce errors during design change processes
  • Reduce product cost by identifying performance and production issues up front

Fibersim Elite

Main capabilities:

  • Ply Based Design
  • Multi-Ply Based Design
  • Zone/Grid Design
  • Volume Fill
  • Wind Blade Design
  • Producibility Simulation
  • Parametric Surface Offset

Function:

  • Manual ply design
  • Specification driven automated ply, zone, thick part and wind blade design
  • Simulation – hand lay-up, automated lay-up, forming ply shift
  • Tools for making a manufacturable design – splicing, darting
  • Parametric Surface Offset – automated IML surface/solid creation

Value:

  • Increase product development efficiency
  • Increase efficiency and reduce errors during design change processes
  • Reduce production cost by identifying performance and production issues up front.

Features

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Advanced Support

Receive advanced support from engineers that use Fibersim every day.

SDA Software is more than a premier value added reseller of Fibersim. We employ award winning engineers that use it every day as part of our professional consulting services. We have the capacity to provide advanced technical support and consulting services to our customers.

Our standard support is included when you purchase a product license or subscription (active maintenance).  This covers the following:

  • Licensing and setup questions
  • Basic technical questions about software features and building models
  • Simple troubleshooting.

We understand that for particularly challenging issues more advanced support is required.  For this, we also offer advanced support services, which include:

  • Detailed help building complex models (even production simulations)
  • Extensive troubleshooting, debugging, and testing of models
  • Custom consulting projects.

 

Advanced support is not included with active maintenance.

Meet Dylan Smith, one of our expert engineers

Dylan Smith joined SDA in March 2020 as a design engineer and has been involved on a variety of programs, primarily the detailed design of an all-composite general aviation aircraft. He has 5 years of experience in the aerospace industry and has worked on manned and unmanned vehicle programs from conceptual development through to manufacturing. He holds a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Columbia University.
Dylan Smith
Design Engineer

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