ESI SYSWELD 2015.1: From weld quality to body manufacturing & distortion engineering, this Virtual Welding & Assembly Suite offers a unique computer-aided assessment of material characteristics, residual stresses and distortions by taking into account all the multi-physics that is involved in Welding, Heat Treatment and Assembly manufacturing processes.

This version includes:

• Visual-Weld 11.0.2 + SYSWELD Solver 2015.1 for Welding simulation.
• Visual-Heat Treatment 11.0.2 + SYSWELD Solver 2015.1 for Heat Treatment simulation
• Visual-Assembly 11.0.2  + Virtual-Assembly Solver 2015.1 for Assembly simulation (complete chaining from stamping to pre-position to holding to welding to performance)

Weld Planner 5.0 is in the maintenance mode. All its functionalities will be migrated to Visual Assembly 12.0

Highlights of this release:

• CAD 2 MESH: New dedicated automatic meshing tool to reduce the time to create the finite element model from CAD.
• Material Management: Major improvements are done in material editor tool to support and manage all the material properties needed for welding and heat treatment.
• Weld and HT new functionalities: Enhancements to facilitate the model set up such as heat source fitting tool, thermal and mechanical contact management, mapping engine, restart computation from any weld and HT, reduction of out file size, spot welding, fiction stir welding …
• Assembly: The integration of Visual-Assembly solves the need for a predictive Stamp-Weld-Assembly simulation chain to control and validate the distortions and product performance by taking into account the manufacturing effects upfront in the design process.

View Virtual Welding & Assembly Suite 2015 Release Notes, 2015.1 Addendum to Release Notes and Visual-Environment 11.0.2 Update Release Notes for more details about the release.