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MSC.Software VPD Conference | July 17-19, 2006 | Huntington Beach, California

Integration of Multi-disciplinary Visualization Platform with a Decision

Support System for MD Nastran

Prasad Mandava, Visual Collaboration Technologies Inc., Wichai Cheva, Toyota Technical Center (USA), Stan Posey, SGI, Michael Sheh and David Kokan, Engineous Software Inc.

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Motivation• Lack of Visual Collaboration

platform for CAx simulation results

• Lack of visual ‘confirmation’ of simulation results during optimization or DOE runs

• Results are over written in many cases

• Especially important for multi-disciplinary design and analysis environments

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Goals

• Phase I:• To be able to capture and publish MD Nastran animation results

during a multi-run task (OPT, DOE) into a small visual file• Phase II

• Extend Phase I capability to Multi-disciplinary Design Optimization Task

• Merge each multi-disciplinary run results into one single visual file• Use the multi-objective trade-off analysis tool with multi-disciplinary

visual data sets• Phase III

• Interpolating visual results using approximation techniques withDOE data set (for CPU intensive applications)

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Scenario

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Challenges

• Common platform for visualizing results from multiple CAxsolvers/packages

• Large data set handling • Scalable high-performance visualization capability from mobile

computing platforms (i.e., laptops) to high end graphics platforms• Incorporating visual file generation in multi-run loop running in batch

mode• Connecting multi-run design and analysis results into single visual

records • Publishing the MD Nastran results to MS Office and IE Browser to

maximize the utilization of the CAE results

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Collaboration Partners

Developer of VCollab, 3D Multi-disciplinary Visual Collaboration Platform for CAD/CAM/VCAEVisual Collaboration Technologies Inc.

High-performance Graphics Library

Developer of iSIGHT-FD Process Integration and Design Optimization System.

TOYOTA

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About VCollab • VCollab is an easy-to-use, high performance PLM data

publishing and visualization system• Data creation

• VCollab Pro: Scalable , hi-performance visual environment, VRML converter

• VMove CAE: CAE Result reader and converter• Data Viewing

• VCollab Presenter: Plug-in for IE Brower, MS-Office• Designed to handle large 3D Data (CAD/CAM/CAE)

• Visualization• Presentation • Collaboration • Publishing and Documentation

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What Problem is VCollab positioned to solve:

StylingAliasMaya3D Studio

CADUGSCATIAPro/ESolidworksAutoCAD

Mark UpVisMockUpAutoVueSpinFireProductView

DESIGN

FEAMSC NastranANSYSMSC MarcABAQUSLS-DYNARADIOSSPAMCRASHAVL/EXCITEMSC AdamsDADDSMADYMO

CFDFLUENTSTARCDSCUYUCFX

PRE/POST HMMSC SofyAnimatorANSAEnSightGridGenTecPLOT

CAMDELMIATECNOMATIX

SIMULATION

Communication is difficult because of many heterogeneous file formats!

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VCollab Solution

Highly Compressed Visualization Format *.VCB

Common Viewing Platform: VCollab

Highly Compressed Visualization Format *.VCBHighly Compressed Visualization Format *.VCB

Common Viewing Platform: VCollabCommon Viewing Platform: VCollab

VCollab PresenterVCollab

Presenter

StylingCADStylingCAD

FEAFEA CFDPre/PostCFDPre/Post

Mark UpMark Up CAMCAM

VCollab Pro

VCollab Pro

3D Documents Interactive 3D .pptInteractive 3D .doc

Web

3D Documents Interactive 3D .pptInteractive 3D .doc

Web

High PerformanceVisualization &

Document creation tool

High PerformanceVisualization &

Document creation tool

Static Static Simulation Simulation Simulation

VRML / VMove CAE

VCollab RealTimeVCollab RealTime

Real TimeCollaboration Tool

Real TimeCollaboration Tool

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Integration with MS Office and IE Browser

CAD/CAM/CAE ToolsCATIA, UG, PRO/E, IDEAS, ABAQUS, MD Nastran, ANSYS, LS DYNA, Product Vision, Autovue, MSC

Adams, Fluent, EnSight, DELMIA etc.

MPEG/AVI VCB

Interactive 3D Passive

PowerPoint, Word, Excel, WEB Page

JPEG

Interactive 3D Engineering Documents

Value : Ease of use , Knowledge Capture, Avoid expensive reruns

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VMoveCAE GUIMSC NastranOp2 selection

Animation Check Box

User defined Scale factor

Results Display List Box

User Defined Range for Legend / Scalar

Reverse Legend Option

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A quick glance of VCollab

DEMO

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About iSIGHT-FD• Desktop workflow builder

• Parametric, hierarchical, nested • Drag and drop environment

• Powerful design drivers:• Multi-Discipline Optimization• Design of Experiments• Monte Carlo Analysis• Approximation Methods

• Desktop automation• Automate simulation process to

explore design space • Distributed/parallel computing

• Multi-run Visual Post-processing

• Understand design trade-offs • “Surf” through the design space in

real-time.

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Scenario

• Using a Nastran run in a DOE loop

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MD Nastran, iSIGHT-FD & VCollab Integration

PHASE I : VCZ visual file generation from MD Nastran file within iSight-FD Framework1. Wrap “VMoveCAE Data Coversion Adaptor” as an iSight-FD component to

read and convert the MD Nastran Results file to a .vcz file. 2. VCZ Integration: Wrap partial VCollab Pro functionality as an iSight-FD

component to aggregate multiple .vcz files together.3. Send .vcz file output as attachment of a iSight-FD e-mail component

PHASE II : VCZ embedded 3D Engineering Document Generation1. Insert .vcz file content into iSight-FD Word/PowerPoint/Excel component2. Use the multi-objective trade-off analysis tool with multi-disciplinary visual

data sets

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Create a Workflow with a Drag and Drop Process

Drag & DropCut & PasteMulti-LevelConditionalParallel

Components

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Integration

MOVIE

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Summary and benefits to MSC.Software Users

• This project has demonstrated • Integration of a high-performance visual system with a CAE

workflow system.• Ability to generate smaller visual files from MD Nastran in batch

mode to review and compare CAE results at various DOE stages• Ability to combine CAD geometry and MD Nastran simulations into

a single visual file • Ability to embed MD Nastran results as interactive visual files into

MS Office and IE Browser• Ability to publish, share, visualize and review MD Nastran results

for better decision making