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Autodesk Simulation
Mechanical

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Agenda
Why Autodesk?
Autodesk

Simulation
portfolio
Autodesk Simulation
overview
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Subscription,
Learning, and Education


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Autodesk Simulation | Autodesk, Inc.
A world leader in design,
engineering, and entertainment
software
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than a million registered users
Customers include 95 percent of
the Fortune 100
The broadest portfolio of
products in the design world,
addressing all phases of the
design process


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Autodesk Solution for Digital Prototyping
Autodesk
Digital
Prototyping
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Autodesk Simulation products
Autodesk

Inventor

software enables
you to create a digital prototype, helping
reduce reliance on costly physical
prototypes and get more innovative
designs to market faster.
As your simulation needs expand,
Autodesk Simulation and
Autodesk

Moldflow

software allow
you to further validate and optimize
your designs with a broad range of
mechanical simulation tools.

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Validate. Predict.
Optimize.
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Create quality products and meet
safety requirements by validating
designs before manufacturing begins.
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Minimize reliance on costly physical
prototypes by accurately predicting
product performance using digital
prototypes.
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Reduce costs and get innovative
products to market faster by
optimizing designs earlier in the
manufacturing process.
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Autodesk Inventor and Autodesk
Simulation

Autodesk Inventor, coupled with Autodesk
Simulation, helps you study designs earlier,
more often, and in greater detail.
Key benefits
Validate designs
Predict product
performance
Optimize designs
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Digital Prototyping with
Autodesk Simulation
Reduce time to market
Optimize material costs and
design features
Increase product quality and
reduce defects
Reduce costly physical
prototype testing
Provide collaboration among
design, engineering, and
manufacturing
Increase product innovation
Provide a virtual performance
product preview
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Predict Product Performance
Autodesk Simulation software
provides a full set of tools that
helps users perform accurate,
efficient simulations and
collaborate in a multi-CAD
environment.
These tools provide static stress
analysis, fatigue analysis, linear
dynamic analysis, mechanical
event simulation to predict
product performance.

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Autodesk Simulation features
Work with native CAD data
Create finite element models
and meshes
Subject models to a wide range of
loads and constraints
Characterize how a material responds
to loads using numerous material
models
Analyze models subject to static and
dynamic loads, including motion
Evaluate and present simulation
results

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Work with native CAD Data
Learn an easy-to-use single user interface for finite
element modeling, results evaluation, and
presentation.
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Create finite element models and meshes
Use tools and wizards designed to improve
productivity and simulation accuracy.

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Subject models to a wide range of loads
and constraints
Define, group, and apply properties such as loads,
constraints, and materialsmaking it easier to
accurately predict product performance.

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Characterize how a material responds
to loads using numerous material models
Better understand the real-world performance of
products by applying material data, loads, and
constraints to a digital prototype.

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Analyze models subject to static and
dynamic loads, including motion
Static stress analysis Dynamic analysis
Study designs with tools for static stress analysis,
fatigue analysis, linear dynamic analysis, mechanical
event simulation, heat transfer analysis,
computational fluid dynamics, and multiphysics.
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Evaluate and present simulation results
Use a wide range of tools and wizards for model
visualization, results evaluation, and presentation.
Features include multiple-window displays, fast
dynamic viewing controls, and customization options.

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Combine results from multiple
analysis types
A wide range of mechanical
simulation tools for predicting
product performance includes:
Static stress analysis
Linear dynamic analysis
Heat transfer analysis
Computational fluid dynamics
Mechanical event simulation
Multiphysics
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Static stress analysis
Test designs for structural integrity, avoiding
over- or underdesigning. Study stress, strain,
displacement, shear, and axial forces by
applying known, static loads for linear or
nonlinear stress analyses. Predict large
deformation, permanent deformation, and
residual stresses.

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Fatigue analysis
Be guided by a wizard interface
through the steps required to
perform complex fatigue
analysisvital for products such
as steel rails, beams, girders, and
rotating stepped shafts that can
experience mechanical failure
under repeated or varying loads.

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Linear dynamic analysis
Study stress, strain, displacement, shear, and axial forces
resulting from dynamic loading of linear materials.
Natural frequency (modal) analysis
Response spectrum analysis
Random vibration analysis
Frequency response analysis
Transient stress analysis
Critical buckling load analysis
Dynamic Design Analysis
Method analysis

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Mechanical event simulation
Use multi-body dynamics with large-scale motion, large
deformation, and large strain with body-to-body contact.
Rigid-body motionSimulate
kinematic motion of inflexible
models. Model can include
coupled mechanisms or be
completely unconstrained.
Flexible-body motionAccount
for bending, twisting, stretching,
squashing, and inertial effects by
conducting simultaneous motion
and stress analysis to see motion
and its results.
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Contact Analysis
Accurately simulate interaction and
transfer of loads between multiple
parts of an assembly, for both linear
and nonlinear contact scenarios.
Autodesk Simulation software supports
bonded, welded, free/no, surface, and
edge contact.
Nonlinear contact includes additional
contact methods such as coupling
elements, dashpot elements, and
surface-to-surface contact. Specify
surfaces and parts that may come
into contact throughout an event.

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Interoperability with Autodesk products
Includes direct data
exchange and tight
integration with:
AutoCAD

Autodesk Inventor
Autodesk Inventor
Fusion
Autodesk Moldflow
Autodesk

Vault
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Autodesk Simulation Mechanical
Static stress with linear material models
Fatigue
Linear dynamics
Critical buckling
Steady-state and transient
heat transfer
Large-scale motion and stress
Nonlinear material models
Impact, buckling, and
permanent deformation

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Validate. Predict.
Optimize.
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