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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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
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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