leapaustralia.com.au - Leading Engineering Application Providers

State-of-the-art direct modeling tools like Pull, Move, Fill and Combine to create and edit solid models regardless of the originating CAD system

• Automatic extraction of midsurfaces, beams, volumes for CFD, insertion of spot welds etc. which can be transferred to ANSYS Workbench
• Easily create and transfer parameters (bidirectional) , named selections and more to ANSYS Workbench
• Open native data from all major CAD systems and edit as if they were created in SpaceClaim
• Powerful clean-up tools clean data from legacy systems, custom code, or surface modelers that don’t produce watertight solids
• Specify design changes to the CAD team with accurate solid models and 3D markup.

What MORE can you do with ANSYS SCDM?

• Use sheet metal capabilities within your models
• Create models directly from imported 2D drawing sheets or edit your 3D model while being in 2D mode and save modeling time
• Orient your assembly for different mechanism configurations using simple assembly constraints like align, orient, gear etc
• Use layers to organize your complex assembly models thus making it easier to work with
• Check for interferences and clearances in the entire model and fix them with few clicks
• No limits to 'undo' within the entire session (between different files) and play back your session's work using Journal functionality
• Create models using multi-touch interface
• Use mouse gestures anywhere on the screen for quick execution of commands thus eliminating the need of clicking the tool icon
• Import videos for demonstrating /training  purposes or images (e.g. of FEA Analysis) right within your model thus increasing the information content
• Export 3D PDF files of your model to view the model on computers without a CAD software or a viewer

See the latest SpaceClaim enhancements in 2011 related to CAE

Leap have been executing CAE consultancy projects in a wide variety of areas for our Australian customers. We receive input geometries from the customer in all sorts of formats and qualities. It becomes a challenge to import the data accurately and prepare the model for CAE (pre-process) on time. We essentially feel the need of a proper tool which can deal with a variety of formats, allow us to fix and modify the geometry as per the demands of CAE and get all these tasks done in an efficient, consistent and quick manner. ANSYS SCDM has brought together the best tools which match our requirement exactly. Considering the worst case of input quality, the job which could take probably a week to pre-process with our traditional methods, was completed within a couple of days with the use of ANSYS SCDM

ANSYS SCDM will read your 2D models and help you create a 3D model within minutes, allowing you to perform a multitude of simulations.  

Do you depend largely on your CAD team to help you simplify models for analysis in the way you want?

ANSYS SCDM can help you de-feature/simplify model, detect and remove interferences and fix geometry errors easily with just few clicks of mouse. Thus your CAE process will no more halt because of this dependency on CAD team.

Do you spend more time in generating your models of shells and beams ?

With ANSYS SCDM, you can extract mid-surfaces and beams in the most easiest and quickest way thus giving you more time to focus on the actual physics of the problem.

Key Benefits:

• Unrestricted by complex parameters, never experience rebuild errors or struggle with complicated constraints as often encountered with traditional CAD tools.
• Increase early phase CAE capacity to address innovation initiatives
• Save days or weeks by removing CAD bottleneck in CAE workflow

“I don’t need rounds or sharp edges. So when preparing models, I had to get rid of sliver faces, gaps, and other model elements prior to analysis. With SpaceClaim, I can prepare models in less than 30 minutes, enabling me to quickly perform basic volume extraction and de-featuring, regardless of the size of the model. The days of deleting a model and starting all over are gone. I’ve gained back at least 50 percent of my time with SpaceClaim and am now able to focus on analysis and delivering the optimal design changes to new concepts.”

McCormick Stevenson - Shane McGoldrick, Advanced Mechanical Engineer and Analyst