×
INTELLIGENT WORK FORUMS
FOR ENGINEERING PROFESSIONALS

Log In

Come Join Us!

Are you an
Engineering professional?
Join Eng-Tips Forums!
  • Talk With Other Members
  • Be Notified Of Responses
    To Your Posts
  • Keyword Search
  • One-Click Access To Your
    Favorite Forums
  • Automated Signatures
    On Your Posts
  • Best Of All, It's Free!
  • Students Click Here

*Eng-Tips's functionality depends on members receiving e-mail. By joining you are opting in to receive e-mail.

Posting Guidelines

Promoting, selling, recruiting, coursework and thesis posting is forbidden.

Students Click Here

Jobs

New Trends in CAE

New Trends in CAE

New Trends in CAE

(OP)
Hi

I have got a guestion about new trends in CAE software. Do you now in what direction all of this stuff going to?

Thanks
Konrad

RE: New Trends in CAE

North-east!  smile

RE: New Trends in CAE

(OP)
Yes rather particula in programs like Ansys, Abaqus....etc

Konrad

RE: New Trends in CAE

In general I'd say south...or down (whichever you please).  The fact that certain programs contain wizards to walk you through how to do an analysis just makes me shake my head.

RE: New Trends in CAE

As noted, such programs are getting easier to use, and as also noted obliquely, they are often being driven by people who lack the training to detect when such a program misbehaves.

Vendors of such software continue to absolve themselves of all responsibility for said misbehavior in their licensing agreements, and continue to sell the software on the basis of reduced labor expenses.

Disaster is inevitable.

 

Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA

RE: New Trends in CAE

To be fair I have't seen anything too horrific from the heavyweight programs, but I think the trend of bundling a lightweight FEA package into CAD programs is one lawsuit away from a disaster (or vice versa).

 

Cheers

Greg Locock

SIG:Please see FAQ731-376: Eng-Tips.com Forum Policies for tips on how to make the best use of Eng-Tips.

RE: New Trends in CAE

The continual dumbing down of analysis/simulation software is customer driven.  If vendors don't do it they lose their customers.  Most software teams have many people eager to rewrite buggy legacy code but are forced into turd polishing tasks instead.

- Steve

RE: New Trends in CAE

One field I'd like to see expand is optimisation. At the moment Optistruct doesn't really do what I want (optimise structure for strength), for some reason it is much happier optimising for stiffness, which is cool, but not always what I want.

I'd also like to see improved solid automesh .

 

Cheers

Greg Locock

SIG:Please see FAQ731-376: Eng-Tips.com Forum Policies for tips on how to make the best use of Eng-Tips.

Red Flag This Post

Please let us know here why this post is inappropriate. Reasons such as off-topic, duplicates, flames, illegal, vulgar, or students posting their homework.

Red Flag Submitted

Thank you for helping keep Eng-Tips Forums free from inappropriate posts.
The Eng-Tips staff will check this out and take appropriate action.

Reply To This Thread

Posting in the Eng-Tips forums is a member-only feature.

Click Here to join Eng-Tips and talk with other members!


Resources