FiberSIM

FiberSIM®: The World’s Leading Software for Composites

FiberSIM is integrated into the leading commercial CAD systems (CATIA V4, CATIA V5, NX and Creo™ Elements/Pro™ from PTC) to help you capture a truly complete digital product definition. And FiberSIM goes beyond CAD to create a customized environment that enables you to ‘work how you think’ when designing innovative, bleeding-edge products that create a competitive advantage.

VISTAGY’s composites engineering environments support every step of the composite part development process including:

• Specifying laminates and selecting ply creation methodologies including ply-based, zone-based or structure-based design to utilize the best process for the job;
• Automatically creating ply geometry by defining transitions with sequence, drop-off and stagger profiles that automatically populate the CAD model, as opposed to the tedious process of manually creating the CAD curves for each ply;
• Generating variable offset surfaces and solids, including mock-up surfaces for interference checking, mating surfaces that model where two parts join together and tooling surfaces for manufacturing;
• Verifying and communicating design requirements and details through the generation of engineering documentation and/or Microsoft Excel tables;
• Simulating part producibility by providing immediate feedback early in the design process to streamline development efficiency;
• Defining extended boundaries and other manufacturing details such as splices, darts and tape courses in order to reduce time-to-part and costs;
• Creating manufacturing documentation for factory floor instruction that verifies all data is correct;
• Automatically generating manufacturing data—such as flat patterns and data to drive automated cutting machines, laser projection systems, fiber placement machines and tape laying machines—and sharing it downstream and across the enterprise.

VISTAGY’s FiberSIM suite of software tools includes the choice of one of the following requisite engineering environments:

• Composite Engineering Environment
• Advanced Composite Engineering Environment

as well as the following optional products for specific tasks:

• Automated Deposition Design
• Documentation
• Quality Planning Environment
• Analysis Interface
• Flat Pattern Export
• Laser Projection
• Fiber Placement Interface
• Tape Laying Interface
• Composite Viewer

To learn about how customers across the globe have used FiberSIM successfully in production, please click here.