Anorexic geometries, high bending stresses, and a brittle material (pewter alloy) shouldn’t go together, but here’s what happens when they do. To avoid this arty serving fork’s premature demise during the cutting of a honeybaked ham, the makers could have thickened up the cross section by a factor of three or so and used a more sensible material like stainless steel. But, then, it wouldn’t be art, would it?
Against a backdrop of mounting product complexity and a need to keep a lid on development costs, companies are recognizing a need to make simulation a more integral part of the design process. In response, vendors in the CAD world are building out CAE functionality as part of their CAD suites while simulation vendors are building tighter integrations to leading CAD tools. Keith Meintjes, Ph.D., Practice Manager, Simulation and Analysis at CIMdata, Inc., joins Design News CAD Editor Beth Stackpole in this radio program to explore the new face of integrated CAD and CAE, how companies are benefitting from this tighter partnership between platforms, and how integrating CAE earlier in the development cycle pays off in optimized product designs.
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