Ansys Discovery features the first simulation-driven design tool combining instant physics simulation, high-fidelity simulation and interactive geometry modeling in a single easy-to-use experience.
By combining interactive modeling and multiple simulation capabilities in a first-of-its-kind product, Discovery allows you to answer critical design questions earlier in the design process. This upfront approach to simulation saves time and effort on prototyping as you explore multiple design concepts in real time with no need to wait for simulation results.
Ansys Discovery answers critical design questions early in your process with speed and accuracy. Boost productivity and performance by eliminating long waits for simulation results. Discovery lets engineers focus on innovation and product performance.
Discovery speeds implant design to improve patient rehabilitation.
Patients rely on the speed and accuracy of Techfit Digital Surgery to create implants that support healing bones. Every patient’s needs are unique, whether they're recovering from cancer or major injuries. Ansys Discovery simulation solutions can directly impact a patient’s recovery and rehabilitation. By exploring different design scenarios, engineers can validate products faster, get patients into surgery quicker and enable patients to enjoy recovery sooner. Through the Discovery software, Techfit Digital Surgery evaluates a patient's need and turns it into a design, highlighting the company’s mantra of “iteration makes perfection.”
July 2024
Ansys Discovery’s newest 2024 R2 update accelerates geometry modeling by up to 10X, improves simulation confidence, and introduces the first full release of its breakthrough GPU meshing technology for improved accuracy and reduced memory footprint.
Faster modeling significantly accelerates geometry editing for large models, achieving speeds 10 times faster than prior releases. Visibility improvements include new hide faces and volume clipping tools conveniently located in a dedicated ribbon group for an optimized workflow. Fast shrinkwrap offers users a new, more efficient model-wrapping process for generating closed volumes from disconnected surface models. Shared topology overlays bring visualization of shared topology connections into the Discovery graphics scene, enabling users to understand changes to connectivity while making modeling edits.
The fault-tolerant approach ensures that mesh failures are a thing of the past, regardless of CAD errors, overlapping parts, or low-quality surface faceting. Local Fidelity Sizes support capturing small model details, such as flow constrictions, baffles, or grates, and coarsening in low-impact areas to reduce GPU memory requirements without sacrificing accuracy.
Conformal poly-hexcore meshing ensures smooth transitions from polyhedral cells at the boundary for maximum shape capture to hexahedral cells in the interior for enhanced computational performance.
Bolt assessment evaluates the bolt factor of safety using AISC ASD criteria, allowing for the quick identification and prevention of potential structural issues in an automated workflow. Confidence checking helps identify design or simulation setup issues by automatically validating results against standard design acceptance criteria. Mesh visualization enables rapid and interactive mesh inspection to evaluate feature capture and increase confidence in simulation results. Automated mesh quality checks and visualizations ensure you can trust and verify your results.
DISCOVERY CAPABILITIES
By answering critical design questions early in the process, thus decreasing engineer labor and physical prototyping costs, Ansys Discovery allows for a ROI boost across your organization. Upfront simulation reduces prototyping and testing needs and minimizes engineering change orders while maximizing design and ideation focus.
Ansys Discovery 3D product simulation software allows engineers to quickly prepare models for simulation or create design variations, all while rapidly exploring multiple design concepts with real-time interactivity. Upfront simulation improves product insight and leads to a more efficient and higher-performing outcome.
Simplify your 3D modeling and simulation tasks with a range of Discovery software capabilities.
DISCOVERY PACKAGING & LICENSING
The Ansys Discovery license provides access to a broad set of modeling and physics simulation capabilities, including geometry modeling tools for cleaning, defeaturing and editing imported models; as well as generating new geometries to support simulation workflows; live physics simulation capabilities including thermal, structural, fluids and topology optimization; and simulation setup and post-processing functionality.
Solving high-fidelity simulation in Ansys Discovery requires an additional license, depending on the physics. To leverage the Ansys Mechanical Solver for structural and thermal physics requires the Mechanical Pro license; whereas solving fluid physics requires the CFD Pro license.
| Ansys Discovery Capability | Discovery Modeling | Discovery Simulation |
|---|---|---|
| Open Data from All Major CAD Systems | ||
| Modify Imported Geometry | ||
| Defeaturing and Simplification Tools | ||
| Model Repair | ||
| Repair and Edit Faceted Data | ||
| Geometric Parameterization | ||
| Scripting | ||
| Transfer to Mechanical | ||
| Transfer to Fluent | ||
| Simulation Setup & Pre-processing | ||
| Post-processing of Results | ||
| Static Structural | ||
| Modal | ||
| Point Masses | ||
| Pre-stressed Modal | * | |
| Linear Frictionless Contact | ||
| Nonlinear Contact & Joints | * | |
| Large Deformation | * | |
| High Frequency Electromagnetics | * | |
| Topology Optimization | ||
| Manufacturing Contraints for Topology Optimization | ||
| Steady-state Thermal | ||
| Conduction | ||
| Convection | ||
| Transient Thermal | ||
| Steady-state Flow | ||
| Transient Flow | ||
| Incompressible Flow | ||
| Buoyancy - Boussinesq | ||
| Thermal Serface Loads (convection, heat) | ||
| Thermal-stress | ||
| Transfer to HFSS | ||
| * Requires additional license |
DISCOVERY RESOURCES & EVENTS
We'll explore how Discovery breaks stereotypical simulation barriers, ideally suited for early design exploration and refinement.
Learn how Discovery can help you improve effectiveness across valves, address structural simulation challenges, overcome thermal management issues and perform topology optimization and much more...all in 17 minutes.
Ansys Discovery 2024 R2 introduces essential updates to help users explore and analyze rapid design easily. Check out the new features in our live webinar.
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