LEAP Australia Blog

Automating Annotations and Customising Output in Creo

Creo provides automated annotation features that enhance productivity and improve accuracy in the design and documentation processes. By reducing the manual effort associated with annotation tasks and ensuring consistency across models and documentation, these features support a more efficient workflow for engineers and designers. As part of our Creo Best-Practices webinar series, Ben Muston, Senior Application Engineer at LEAP recently covered these features in depth, and here we have summarised the key take aways and provided the video hightlights.

25th Anniversary of UNSW Redback Racing – A look back at Formula-SAE Aerodynamics Strategies

Founded in 2000, The University of New South Wales (UNSW) Formula SAE Team, UNSW Redback Racing has continued year on year to design, build and race in the Formula SAE Australasia competition. With each car, the team strives for improvement and innovation, building on previous designs and advancing their knowledge into the future. An important part of this process is the use of Ansys Simulation for their Aerodynamics package and in this article, the team outlines their aerodynamics simulation strategy, explaining how they got to their current design, and their plans for the future.

Applying Tangential Pressure in Ansys Mechanical – Transfer Chutes

Transfer chutes are very commonly used in bulk material processing and handling scenarios, particularly for bulk granular materials. When analysing the structural performance of a transfer chute, it’s important to consider how the flow of material will impact your design, and to then quickly evaluate the structural performance of the design under load. Whilst it’s straightforward to account for the normal component of pressure in a design, the tangential pressure is a trickier load to setup. In this blog, we’ll investigate how you can setup pressure loads to capture tangential pressures for a variety of transfer chute geometries.

Photorealism when rendering everyday objects – Edward Poropat on LEAP’s KeyShot Challenge

Among the many creative and diverse entries to our 2025 KeyShot Challenge competition were two submitted by Edward Poropat, Industrial Designer at Alchin Long Group that caught our eye. In this article, Edward provides some background on his two submissions, explaining each design and the processes he went through to create his fantastic renders.

Drawing Formats, Templates, and Best Practices in Creo

In this post we show you how to set your team up for success with standardised drawing templates and formats in Creo. As part of our Creo Best-Practices webinar series, Ben Muston, Senior Application Engineer at LEAP recently tackled drawing formats and templates, covering title blocks, custom symbols, revision tables, repeat regions, and how to drive consistency across 2D and MBD-enabled drawings for efficient documentation processes.

NAFEMS Discovery Benchmark Series – Part 4: Axisymmetric Geometries

Our exploration of Ansys Discovery’s capabilities now shifts from general 3D geometries to a specialised yet widely encountered case: axisymmetry. Many essential components such as pipes, flanges and pressure vessels, exhibit rotational symmetry. In this section, we examine Discovery’s performance on axisymmetric problems using two established NAFEMS benchmarks, LE7 and LE8 – read on to see the results.

Ansys Sherlock for Electronic Life Assessment

Ansys Sherlock is a reliability tool for electronics components that allows engineers to make fast and accurate life predictions for their electronics hardware.
This post provides a high-level overview of how Sherlock can be used to examine a mission-critical PCB that is part of a module expected to make multiple trips out into orbit and then back to Earth.

NAFEMS Discovery Benchmark Series – Part 3: Simple Geometries

In part three of our NAFEMS Discovery Benchmark Series we move beyond simple plates to look at more complex 3D structures to ensure the software can accurately handle a broad spectrum of geometries including cylinders and cantilevers. Read on to see how Discovery handled this benchmark test.

Accelerating Ansys Circuit Solvers with optiSLang AI+

Electrical circuit solvers are typically a computationally light simulation technique, but are difficult to scale, with potentially tens or hundreds of millions of time steps to calculate specific characteristic values for a design. In this article we look at how the new Ansys optiSLang AI+ extension can dramatically accelerate single solve simulations by replicating part of the system and removing it from the circuit simulator entirely.

Unlocking 3D Annotations with Model-Based Definition in Creo

In this post we delve into the world of Model-Based Definition (MBD) and demonstrate how to embed annotation data directly into your 3D CAD models. As part of our Creo Best-Practices webinar series, Ben Muston, Senior Application Engineer at LEAP recently took a deep dive into MBD, explaining 3D GD&T, semantic references, and leveraging annotation planes. Read on and watch the highlights of Ben’s presentation to learn how your team can streamline design-to-manufacturing workflows without relying on 2D drawings.