Announcement

After 2 years and a half, I am glad to announce that ooSoft is now part of the Spinologics world!

Stefan Parent (left) and Éric Gaudreau (right)

Indeed, today, Spinologics has acquired ooSoft as its new subsidiary. It’s a great honor to work with such a team of professionals, which corporate culture really seduced me from the very beginning and I am proud to be part of the family.

Many thanks to the people that made it come true:

  • Julien Clin and the Spinologics FEA team (Franck Le Navéaux, Bahe Hachem and David Benoît) for bringing me in the picture,
  • Éric Gaudreau, who actually made it happen,
  • Stefan Parent, Jean-Marc Mac Thiong and Hubert Labelle, from the Spinologics board for their trust,
  • the Spino Modulation team, with which I look forward to work closer.

It is an important announcement, with no actual changes, since ooSoft will keep on existing and working on democratizing numerical simulation as usual, with adding a specific interest in everything that deals with the human body interactions with other devices such as medical implants or sports equipment.

6 Apps on the ANSYS AppStore

It’s been a while since the new AppStore is out and you can now check out all the extensions that we have developed for SimuTech, which are – in order of appearance:

  • Reaction Forces (we already spoke about it in our first post): it is now available for release R19.x
  • Heat Balance: the equivalent of Reaction Forces extension but for the Thermal world: it populates a formatted Excel file with calculating the heat transfer coming from the load conditions and going out through the boundary conditions for every load step of your thermal analysis.
  • Tangential Varying Pressure and Time Dependent Hydrostatic Pressure, which were discussed in a previous post as well.
  • Inertial Cones: an interesting feature to visualize the inertial properties of a FEA model – especially useful when the structure has some beams, trusses, plates and/or mass points. This app contains source code as well, so that you can learn to manage graphical objects from it.
  • Advanced Springs: the newest one, which enables you to create 1D longitudinal or torsional spring using COMBIN14 elements. (standard spring in Mechanical are acting in 3D: with those one you can specify in which direction the spring stiffness is acting, and thus define different stiffnesses in the three directions.

Feel free to test them out and let us know what you think about them.

Two new Apps on the App store

The ANSYS R19 release has been out for nearly six months now, but the R19 App store has been opened for a couple of weeks only. We were waiting for it to be able to post two new apps developed with SimuTechGroup.

(click on the picture to go directly to the App store to download them)

Tangential Varying Pressure: in Mechanical the standard Pressure load enables the user to add a pressure that varies along one direction, but not when it is a tangential pressure.

Time Dependent Hydrostatic Pressure: the standard Mechanical Hydrostatic Pressure does not permit any variation in time of its value. But you may have to consider free surface level variation when simulating:

  • changes in the level of a tide against a structure,
  • rise or fall of water level in a tank or against the face of a dam

So was this feature creating with ACT.

Common Point: ACT Load Visualization

These two objects create a varying pressure, and we took advantage of the ability to visualize this variation before solve happens (which is better for sanity check).

Moreover, values will be changed automatically:

  • if unit system is changed
  • if current time value is changed in the Analysis Settings Graph panel (for the Hydrostatic Pressure)

Hydrostatic Pressure @ time 0.5s
Change Time!
Hydrostatic Pressure @ time 2s

A future post will be dedicated to explain how we managed to do that

PS: By the way, the R19.1 is now available on the ANSYS Customer Portal.

Our first App on the ANSYS App Store!

Check out our first App developed with SimuTechGroup: Reaction Forces now downloadable on the ANSYS App Store!

Dedicated to ANSYS Mechanical static and transient analyses, this extension automatically creates probes for any boundary conditions, contacts, beams springs and joints defined in the model and extracts the results in an Excel file.

In the simulation outline tree, probes will be grouped in a folder, based on Load Steps end times!

The Excel file will be saved in the WorkBench project user_files directory.