Simulation Process Integration and Automation
Manage all the logical steps in your engineering process from a single automated simulation workflow, also executable via a web interface.
Complex engineering problems often include the use of a myriad of in-house and third-party CAD, CAE and general use software, resulting in a disconnected, difficult-to-manage process.
Also, performing separately parametric modeling and simulation analysis may become a time-consuming practice, leading to delays in the product development.
With our powerful simulation workflow, you can automate any kind of simulation model. This means integrating with any parametric solvers and specify in one click which parameters, constraints and objectives are required to generate innovative design solutions faster.
Automate, integrate and drive multiple CAD/CAE tools
Save time
Automatically run repetitive simulations and avoid the painstaking process of manually combining the output from multiple applications. You can expect to improve the design performance by evaluating thousands of designs simultaneously.
Increase process efficiency
Seamlessly integrate the most popular third-party engineering solvers into a unique, automated simulation workflow. Explore our continuously up-to-date list of more than 40 interfaces.
Benefit from maximum flexibility
Rely on our EasyDriver guidance to easily integrate any additional commercial or in-house solver by developing custom, easy reusable nodes.
Work in a standard-based and open environment
Using multiple tools is often necessary when dealing with complex engineering problems that could involve separate teams and disciplines.
In this context, the opportunity to rely on shareable processes and models is essential, and standards are key to make people and tools communicate.
Our software platform supports the Functional Mock-up Interface standard to exchange simulation models. You can export Response Surface Models as Functional Mock-up Units (FMUs) and also import FMUs exported from third-parties applications in the simulation workflow.
Connect with any parametric tools (and more)
Our technology offers a variety of interfaces to couple with the most popular engineering solvers. Direct interfaces seamlessly connect with your simulation models, extract relevant parameters and allow you to select your process input and output in few clicks.
CAE interfaces
Abaqus FEA
Dassault Systèmes
Adams / Car
Hexagon MSC Software
Adams / View
Hexagon MSC Software
ASMI
Autodesk
Ansa
BETA CAE Systems
ANSYS Workbench
Ansys
AVL AST
AVL
CST Microwave
Dassault Systèmes
Grasshopper
Rhinoceros
GT Suite
Gamma Technologies
HyperMesh
Altair
JMAG-Designer
JSOL
Madymo
Tass
Metapost
BETA CAE Systems
MSC Nastran
Hexagon MSC Software
RomaxDesigner
Romax Technology
SC/Tetra
Cradle
SFE Concept
Dassault Systèmes
Simcenter Flomaster
Siemens EDA
Simcenter Amesim
Siemens
SimulationX
ESI
StarCCM+
Siemens
FMI
WAVE
Realis Simulation
CAD interfaces
CATIA
Dassault Systèmes
Creo Elements/Pro
PTC
Simcenter 3D
Siemens Digital Industries
Solidworks / FlowSimulation
Dassault Systèmes
SpaceClaim
SpaceClaim
Application Interfaces
Excel
Microsoft
LabView
National Instruments
MapleSim
Maplesoft
Matlab
MathWorks
Octave
GNU Octave
OpenOffice
Apache Software Foundation
Script Interfaces
Bean Shell
Calculator (JavaScript)
CPython
Cygwin Shell Script
DOS Batch Script
EasyDriver
Jython
PowerShell
Python
SFU Shell Script
SH Shell Script
VBScript and JScript
Easydriver
If your preferred tool is not included in the list, the EasyDriver tool is available to set custom-made interfaces with any third party software (such as Converge, DEP Meshworks, LS-DYNA, Radioss, Recurdyn, and more) or in-house applications.
Tailored for your company needs
If you look at making simulation models accessible and actionable via web, VOLTA enterprise platform gives you the opportunity to scale up the usage of our automated simulation workflow across different teams. This means that domain experts (aerodynamics, fluid dynamics, structures - to name a few) can define parametric simulation models and make them available to others (such as simulation experts, method developers, CAE engineers, and so on). Such models are all integrated in a multidisciplinary workflow ready to be executed via VOLTA web interface. At a next step, other engineers can perform design exploration and optimization studies without dealing with the workflow configuration.
When you need to focus on a single discipline simulation or MDO (Multidisciplinary Design Optimization) study to solve an engineering problem, you can rely on our modeFRONTIER desktop solution. Its process integration and automation capabilities enable you to describe processes involving different physics in the form of graphical workflows, integrate all the software tools required and run efficient workflows for design exploration and optimization campaigns.