Tips & Tricks

Solid elements morphing by twist in Visual Mesh

In the case of 3D meshes, the term morph can be interpreted as the change of appearance of a graphical object. The morphing process is then defined as the construction of an animated sequence corresponding to the gradual transition between two different objects, so-called source (initial) and target (final) models. The objective of a morphing method is to compute a transformation ensuring a visually pleasant transition between the two, source and target shapes

Demonstrator of typical Stamp-Assembly process in automotive BiW manufacturing

New Stamp-Assembly non-confidential tutorial available

Visual-Assembly Overlap Resolve positioning

The most effective way how to position your distorted components into the clamping system.

Visual-Mesh for Assembly setup - How to create mesh for shell analysis from CAD.

Short video how to create shell mesh from CAD using Visual-Mesh application.

e-Café #1- Construire sa propre carte matière MMAT à l’aide de Visual-Crash PAM

Construire sa propre carte matière MMAT à l’aide de Visual-Crash PAM

Delta T Offset For Bowing Effect in Assembly Process

In case of butt joint of two plates, in reality, there is an eccentricity e between the neutral phase of bending and the centre of the tendon force caused by the weld which causes the typical horse saddle of a butt welded flat plate.. A functionality Delta T Offset  has been developed in order to overcome the limitation due to the shrinkage methodology that cannot provide correct results for a butt joint with a non-symmetrical welding. With this new development, it will be possible to apply an offset value on the thermal loading between upper and lower surfaces of shell. In consequence, the horse saddle effect of a butt welded flat plate is produced with Assembly solution.

Managing Multiple STAGE with Virtual Performance Solution (VPS)

This tip provides some information on the usage of multi stage runs in Virtual Performance Solution (VPS)

Using Inertial Relief

This tip provides some background information on how to model static cases without considering the effect of boundary conditions in Virtual Performance Solution (VPS)

Preloading BOLTS

This tip provides methodology to pre stress elements in Virtual Performance Solution (VPS) to model Bolt assemblies.

Hints on the usage of linear Tetrahedron (TETR4 / ) elements

This tip provides some background information on the question, when, or when not, to use the linear tetrahedron (TETR4 / ) element in Virtual Performance Solution (VPS)