What is fibersim

This software addresses four main factors when it comes to composite designs: reducing risk, increasing part quality, reducing design and manufacturing time, and increasing innovation. Once installed, Fibersim is embedded within your CAD software. This means that all Fibersim data is saved with the part. To use the software effectively, you should have a background in structures, namely composites. The tool is very user friendly but also very powerful with a plethora of capabilities.

To get started, this basic open-source tutorial is a great resource. This allows the engineer to work with combinations of material types, fiber orientations, stack-up orders, balance, symmetry, drop-offs, splices, and dart definitions. The add-in integrates this large set of attributes into the design by automatically creating ply-geometry, assessing ply-level profitability, and providing excellent exchange of analysis and manufacturing data.

Engineers who design and manufacture composite parts face the time-consuming and difficult process of creating or exporting flat patterns to nesting software for use in automated cutting systems.

Without an automated way of creating flat patterns and exporting them from the CAD model, engineers often find that their flat patterns are inaccurate. With the Flat Pattern Export module in the Fibersim portfolio, engineers can automatically generate flat pattern data files for export from their CAD workstation directly to common commercial nesting systems.

The module maintains file integrity by including attributes such as ply name, sequence, material specification, and orientation, eliminating the need for manual manipulation of drawings and patterns. As a result, the module increases engineering efficiency and manufacturing productivity while achieving more accurate flat patterns and less material waste.

Laser projection systems can reduce errors and shorten the layup time for composite parts by displaying ply outlines directly on the layup tool. Fibersim saves time by eliminating the need for manual creation of ply- and insert-boundary geometry so you can instead concentrate on optimising the part. Fibersim is an open and flexible software that allows transfer of cores, plies and laminates created in Fibersim to Teamcenter composite object model from NX and CATIA.

The benefits of composite materials derive from the ability to truly engineer the performance of the part by varying thicknesses, fiber angles, material types, and part shapes. These design variables produce essential complexity that is unique to composite parts, and link the part geometry, material behavior and manufacturing process. Only by mastering the intersection of these three characteristics can the full potential of composites be unlocked. Fibersim provides the key with flexible design methodologies that capture the specifications from analysis and efficiently flow them through the manufacturing process to produce an optimized composite part that can be produced on budget.

Change is inevitable when developing products and components. Using the Fibersim environment to create composite part design allows for the efficient input of requirements from CAE to create a CAD digital twin that can rapidly react to changes in shape and specification, all while providing reassurance and validation that the part can be created effectively.

Design rules provide powerful automation in the creation of ply boundaries from minimal geometry input. Additionally advanced sorting, filtering, and renaming capabilities provide efficient tools for navigating the complexity of modern composite parts. Bye Aerospace use several solutions from Siemens Digital Industries Software to help them get off the ground. They are using Fibersim to optimize the structural integrity of the composite air frame and NX to develop the outer shape of the plane.

Fibersim is used to build up the layers of composites from the outside in. The dynamic between grip and drag dictates design preparation for each race in the Formula One calendar. Fibersim seamlessly integrates into popular 3D CAD systems to create and transition accurate designs, drawings and related data throughout the entire design, analysis and manufacturing process. Fibersim evaluates native CAD geometry and displays results within the CAD system without translation or approximation.

The new version of Fibersim provides design engineers with a powerful decision support environment for optimizing products by enabling them to import and update their CAD model from the CAE composite part representation. As a result, design engineers and stress analysts communicate better and make smarter decisions that result in better products. In addition, the new version of Fibersim introduces native design workflow support for parts designed to the manufacturing extended definition.

Most parts are defined to their engineering net definition and then extended to incorporate manufacturing excess. Companies have found that many part types do not lend themselves to this standard design approach and, instead, are best designed to the manufacturing extended definition and then trimmed to the engineering net definition.

The parts are designed in this manner so minimum weight can be achieved while maintaining standard transition offset requirements.