The 3DEXPERIENCE (3DX) platform is a collaborative environment that empowers businesses to innovate in entirely new ways. It provides organizations a holistic, real-time view of their business activity and ecosystem, connecting people, ideas, data and solutions together in a single environment.
This best practice document highlights a toe angle optimization workflow of an automotive suspension mechanism. A Simulation Analyst in the organization simulates the automotive suspension mechanism using Simpack. Simpack is a general multibody system simulation (MBS) software that enables analysts and engineers to simulate the non-linear motion of any mechanical or mechatronic system.
The Methods Developer in the organization encapsulates the Simpack analysis in a Simulation Process using the SIMULIA Optimization Process Composer application in the 3DEXPERIENCE native client. The Methods Developer further enhances this Simulation Process to configure a toe angle optimization workflow and then converts the Simulation Process into a Simulation Template. The Simulation Template captures the best practices for the toe angle optimization workflow within the company and offers a custom and easy to use user interface. The Simulation Analysts in the organization use this custom user interface to configure and conduct toe angle optimization.
Prerequisites and recommendations: Familiarity with Simpack, Vehicle Dynamics and Multidisciplinary Optimization Engineer role in the 3DEXPERIENCE platform. The recommended trainings include introduction to Simpack and Simpack Automotive training.
Target audience: Vehicle CAE Engineer, Vehicle Dynamics Engineer, Modeling and Simulation Engineer, and Methods Developer.
In this Best Practice, you will learn about:
- How to integrate a Simpack simulation in a Simulation Process
- Creating and configuring a Simulation Process for toe angle optimization
- Creating, configuring and deploying a custom user interface for toe angle optimization
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