Simufact Welding 2023.3

Simufact Welding is used to model and optimize a wide range of thermal joining processes by means of the welding structure simulation under consideration of weld sequences and clamping. Processes such as arc welding, laser beam welding, electron beam welding, brazing, resistance spot welding as well as the generative manufacturing process ‘Direct Energy Deposition’ (DED or WAAM) can be modelled in Simufact Welding.

Simufact Welding is designed for simulating welding processes in the manufacturing industry. Practice oriented user interface enables the welding specialist to access most complex simulation technology in a very easy way. Following processes can be simulated by using Simufact Welding.

• Arc welding (MIG/MAG/TIG/GMA, etc.)
• Laser welding
• Electron beam welding (EBW)
• Brazing
• Resistance spot welding (RSW)
• Direct Energy Deposition (DED)

Release Highlights
The key highlight of Simufact Welding 2023.2 is the following:
 New Morph Mesh Function

• • What is it? A new morph mesh function has been implemented.  It’s used to morph FE volume meshes that are created from CAD into the shape of scanned or simulation data.
  • What is in it for you? The morphing of nominal CAD FE meshes to the physical prototype/production geometry allows for a very high degree of accuracy in manufacturing simulation.
• Spot-wise remeshing capabilities for all RSW modes
  • What is it? For all RSW models, when calling the ‘Mesh’ function, a new, minimalistic meshing tool is open end that allows meshing components based on the position of weld spots.
  • What is in it for you? Allows users to easily generate and/or refine the mesh within Simufact Welding without any prior knowledge of meshing.
• Enhanced Morphing Tool
  • What is it? The best-fit function can now better cope with incomplete meshes such as one-sided 2D scans.  Morphing of 2D shell meshes now also correctly adds the correct 2D shell geometry type to the object catalog.
  • What is in it for you? These enhancements will improve the robustness of the morphing tool, making it easier for users to handle the data that they have.
• New ‘solver pinning’ option
  • What is it? New, MARC internal pinning method, that will pin the solver executable to a single CPU core.
  • What is in it for you? The solver pinning option can improve performance in the right situation.
  • Updated Material Database
    • What is it? Updated material database to include three new materials (HSLA-65_sw, DP1200_sw, and DH36_sw).
    • What is in it for you? An enhanced material database gives users more options to help define their simulation.

      Further Improvements

      • What is it? A new model check will inform the user when the ‘skip short load cases’ options have been triggered.  The default temperature scale has been adapted and given an additional grey increment.  Python and scripting enhancements include the added possibility to change the min-max value in the color legend via scripting, an already existing run.bat file is no longer overwritten when using the Python command ‘start_analysis()’, and groupings introduced to Python documentation for more overview.
      • What is in it for you? These further improvements will help the general user experience making it easier and more efficient to set up, run, and evaluate welding simulations.

Product: Simufact Welding 2023.3
Version: 2023
Supported Architectures: x64
Language: english
Supported Operating Systems: Windows 7even or newer
Size: 1DVD