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Agenda

Why Autodesk?
Autodesk Simulation portfolio
Autodesk Simulation Mechanical overview
SIM SQUAD
Subscription, Learning, and Education

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Autodesk Simulation | Autodesk, Inc.

A world leader in design, engineering, and

entertainment software
Global community with more 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 Portfolio

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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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Inventor and Simulation Mechanical

Autodesk Inventor, coupled with Autodesk Simulation Mechanical,
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
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 multiCAD 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 Mechanical 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 materials
making 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
Study designs with tools for static stress analysis, fatigue analysis,
linear dynamic analysis, mechanical event simulation, heat transfer
analysis, and electrostatic analysis.

Static stress analysis

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Dynamic analysis

Evaluate and present simulation results

Use a wide range of tools for model visualization, results evaluation,
and presentation. Features include multiple-window displays, fast
dynamic viewing controls, slice planes, transparency, embedded
graphs, customization options, and more.

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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
Static stress with nonlinear material models
Mechanical event simulation
Linear dynamic analysis
Heat transfer analysis
Electrostatic analysis

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Static stress analysis

Test designs for structural integrity,
avoiding over or under designing.
Study stress, strain, displacement, shear,
and axial forces by applying known, static
loads for linear or nonlinear stress
analyses.

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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

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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.

Nonlinear contact includes additional

contact methods such as coupling
elements, dashpot elements, and
surface-to-surface contact.

Specify surfaces, parts or groups 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
Inventor
Inventor Simulation
Inventor Fusion
Simulation Moldflow
Simulation CFD
Autodesk Vault

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Autodesk Simulation Mechanical

Static stress with linear material models

Fatigue
Critical buckling
Linear dynamics
Steady-state and transient heat transfer
Nonlinear material models
Large-scale motion and stress
Impact, buckling, and permanent deformation

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SIM SQUAD: Powered by Autodesk

The SIM SQUAD is a team of world-class
simulation experts at Autodesk whose
mission is to share their wealth of
simulation knowledge.

Ask the SIM SQUAD your simulation

questions
Invite SIM SQUAD members to
present at your events

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Learning and education

Authorized Training Center (ATC)
Enhance your productivity
Increase your competitive edge
Get hands-on training, instructor-led classes
Choose from over 2,000 ATC sites in more than 90
countries

Learning tools
Use your software to its full potential
Perform ahead of the curve
Access a wide range of skill levels and topics
Choose from Autodesk Official Training Guides, books,
e-books, e-learning, and training videos

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More information at
www.autodesk.com/learning

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