Visual Collaboration Solutions VCollab Overview Visual Collaboration Technologies

Visual Collaboration Solutions VCollab Overview Visual Collaboration Technologies Inc

Company Overview n VCollab established in 2000 n VCollab HQ at Troy, MI n Develop and market VCollab brand of Software Solutions n Currently 3 out of 5 major Automotive OEMS are using the VCollab solution as the visual collaboration platform for sharing CAx (modeling & simulation) data Copyright ©, Visual Collaboration Technologies Inc. 2005

VCollab Overview n VCollab is a common light-weight CAE Data Visual Collaboration platform. Similar to pdf for documents. n Benefits ¨ ¨ Extend visibility of CAE data to Designers, Test Engineers and Chief Engineer Facilitate Analysis Reviews among CAE teams Provide consistent platform for CAE data access from diverse geographic locations Supplier Integration Copyright ©, Visual Collaboration Technologies Inc. 2005

Uniqueness of VCollab n CAE Visual Collaboration Solution ¨ ¨ ¨ Offers common CAE Data Model Provides Universal CAE Data Reduction Engine n Many Native CAE translators. Supports most of the leading CAE software. n Batch processing on remote server n High compression ratio to handle large files Easy to use, professional, light weight CAE Viewer n n n Extends CAE Visualization with CAE Decision support capability Provides Light weight post processing CAE-oriented, user friendly visualization GUI ¨ CAE-BOM (multiple sets of CAE data in one file) ¨ Batch post processing enabled. PLM / SLM deployable. ¨ Supports MDO visualization CAX Writer API for writing CAX files from in-house codes Interfaces with Browser, MS/Office, MS Share. Point, i. SIGHT FD Results Manager ¨ ¨ Copyright ©, Visual Collaboration Technologies Inc. 2005

Desktop Engineering June 7, 2006 Anthony J. Lockwood Editorial Director Desktop Engineering “…… Here's what makes the VCollab 2006 software suite a "sit up and pay attention, you lunkhead" offering: VCollab 2006 is designed--specifically designed--to work with massive 3 D MCAD, CAM, CAE, CFD, and FEA work. For example, it can convert native CAE results files from solutions such as ANSYS, ABAQUS, LS-DYNA, and MSC. Nastran into a highly compressible format that you can share via e-mail with totally non-technical, clueless users like the boss. They can interact with it using something as simple as an embedded MS Office document or in Internet Explorer, assuming they can handle such complexity…. ” Copyright ©, Visual Collaboration Technologies Inc. 2005

VCollab Customer base ¨ GM ¨ Ford ¨ Toyota (US) ¨ Honeywell ¨ Hamilton Sunstrand ¨ Pratt & Whitney ¨ Textron ¨ Alenia Aeronautica ¨ Daimler ¨ Brembo ¨ Ashok Leyland ¨ Others Copyright ©, Visual Collaboration Technologies Inc. 2005 6

Challenges in CAE Data Management. . Styling üAlias üMaya ü 3 D Studio üCAD Uni. Graphics CATIA Pro/E Solidworks Ideas Solidedge Auto. CAD Mark Up Vis. Mock. Up Auto. Vue Lattice 3 D Spin. Fire Product. View 3 D XML Etc. Static Geometry CAM CFD FEA üNASTRAN üDELMIA üFLUENT üANSYS üTechno. Matix üSTARCD üMARC ü… üABAQUS üLS DYNA üRADIOSS PRE/POST üPAMCRASH üEn. Sight üADAMS üANSA üDADS üGrid. Gen üMADYMO üTec. PLOT üFORM 3 D ü… PRE/POST HM SOFY Animator ANSA Transient Simulations Communication Nightmare! Many apps/formats CAE / Simulation File Sizes are Large Copyright ©, Visual Collaboration Technologies Inc. 2005

CAX. . Common 3 D data model for 3 D CAE data Styling üAlias üMaya ü 3 D Studio üCAD View & Mark Up -Vis. Mock. Up -Auto. Vue-Product. View Etc. -Uni. Graphics -CATIA -Pro/E -Solidworks -Ideas -Solidedge -Auto. CAD Geometry FEA üNASTRAN üANSYS üABAQUS üLS DYNA üSDRC CAM CFD üFLUENT üSTARCD ü… üDELMIA PRE/POST üEn. Sight Mesh + Transient Simulations CAX. . Common Light Weight Data Model/Format Copyright ©, Visual Collaboration Technologies Inc. 2005

Features and Performance of CAX n Flexible, Highly Compressed and Efficient 3 D Format ¨ ¨ Light Weight : Filters and high compression ¨ Large CAE results files are reduced up to 98% Connectors / Translators ¨ Many 3 rd party application interfaces. ¨ Runs in batch mode. ¨ API for customization Flexible : Stores. . ¨ CAD geometries ¨ CAE transient simulations: Multi load cases with time varying data State of the art interactive, 3 D Viewer ¨ Tool independent, light weight CAE viewer Copyright ©, Visual Collaboration Technologies Inc. 2005

ABAQUS Results n ANSYS RST File : 10 GB n CAX file size :

CAX. . Sample light Weight File Sizes CAE Software CAE Results CAX File Size ( MB) (MB) File size reduction Time for transla tion ANSYS 14000 92 99% 1 Hr 8 Min LS DYNA 15 5. 1 65% <1 Min ABAQUS (ODB) 156 14. 5 90% <1 Min ABAQUS (ODB) 628 48 92% 2 Mins FLUENT 13. 1 96% < 1 Min 347 Copyright ©, Visual Collaboration Technologies Inc. 2005

WEB and Report integration CAD/CAM/CAE Tools CATIA, UG, PRO/E, IDEAS, ABAQUS, NASTRAN, ANSYS, LS DYNA, Product Vision, Autovue, ADAMS, Fluent, En. Sight, DELMIA Passive etc. Interactive 3 D JPEG MPEG/AVI CAX Power. Point, Word, Excel, WEB Page Interactive 3 D Engineering Documents Value : Ease of use, decision support to SLM Copyright ©, Visual Collaboration Technologies Inc. 2005

VCollab Solution CAE Durability Thermal Static Blast Simulation Crash Safety Simulation CFD Simulation VMove. CAE Highly Compressed Visualization Format *. CAX Common Viewing Platform: VCollab Presenter VCollab Pro 3 D Documents Interactive 3 D. ppt Interactive 3 D. doc Web High Performance Visualization & Document creation tool Copyright ©, Visual Collaboration Technologies Inc. 2005

Supported CAE applications in VMove. CAE Natively Supported CAE Software Formats Supported Remarks ABAQUS ODB, FIL, INP Supports Ver 6. 8 MSC NASTRAN, NX NASTRAN OP 2, Bulk Data Files Supports Complex Eigen Vectors MSC MARC T 16 and t 17 plot files ANSYS RST, RTH, RFL LS DYNA D 3 PLOT files, key Files FLUENT Binary Output (. CAS and. DAT files) PRO MECHANICA Design Study Files . NEU IDEAS . UNV ENSIGHT GOLD . CASE, . ENCASE PATRAN . PAT, . OUT files Star. CD Star CCM Copyright ©, Visual Collaboration Technologies Inc. 2005

VCollab Product Configuration Product Description License Model VMove. CAE Data Translator. Works in Batch Mode as well as GUI Mode. Generates light weight CAX files from CAE results files. - Flex. LM Light Weight CAE viewer to view VCollab CAX files. Extends visualization to decision support. Works within MS Office, MS Share. Point and Browser integration. - Flex. Lm VCollab Presenter - Floating- LAN - Floating- WAN - Node Lock - Named User VCollab Professional Thick client. Multiple model overlays, Parts and -Flex. LM results filtering, Annotations, viewpoints, -Floating-LAN Walkthrus, AVI/GIFF animations, Stereo Views -Floating-WAN can be created. CAX writer API Provides ability to write compressed VCollab files (CAX) from solver/post processor Copyright ©, Visual Collaboration Technologies Inc. 2005 TBD

Viewer Functionality – CAE Specific ¨ Multiple fields variables (stress, strain, displacement, etc. ) ¨ Multiple Load Cases and Time Steps support ¨ Derived Types support in Viewer ¨ Deep model interrogation (nodes, elements, max, min, multiple load cases/time steps etc. ) ¨ Contour Scales Editing ¨ Hot Spot Finding ¨ Vector Plotting ¨ Animations / Simulations n n Linear Animations Transient / Non Linear Simulations / Crash Simulations Complex Eigen Vector Computations and Simulations CFD Simulations Copyright ©, Visual Collaboration Technologies Inc. 2005

Viewer CAE functionality n cntd. . CAE Feature Extraction ¨ Sections ¨ Iso Surfaces support ¨ Iso Volumes Support ¨ Path lines and stream lines support Copyright ©, Visual Collaboration Technologies Inc. 2005

Viewer CAE functionality cntd. . n CAE BOM n Superposing of deformed and un-deformed shapes n Multiple models/ data bases in a single cax file n Sim-Flow component developed to work with SLM n Multi Dimensional Optimization ( MDO) Visualization n Pre determined text file support for filtering Copyright ©, Visual Collaboration Technologies Inc. 2005

3 D Crash Simulation data in MS Power. Point Copyright ©, Visual Collaboration Technologies

Interactive Simulation data in MS Word Copyright ©, Visual Collaboration Technologies Inc. 2005

3 D Design Data in MS Excel Copyright ©, Visual Collaboration Technologies Inc. 2005

Multi Disciplinary CAx data in VCollab Copyright ©, Visual Collaboration Technologies Inc. 2005

Multi Disciplinary CAx data in IE Browser Copyright ©, Visual Collaboration Technologies Inc. 2005

Enhanced Display Options with VCollab Pro CAE CAD Data Uni. Graphics Product Vision Structural NASTRAN ABAQUS FATIQUE FATIGUE CFD Star. CD Fluent CAM DELMIA VCB Files VCollab Pro Option 1 Visualize and Analyze the 3 D CAE data on Desk. Tops/Lap. Tops Option 2 Visualize and Analyze the 3 D CAE Data in Stereo on Desk. Tops/Lap. Tops Option 3 Large Flat Screen Design Review Centers in Stereo Copyright ©, Visual Collaboration Technologies Inc. 2005 Option 4 Inspect the interiors of the parts and assemblies in Vision Dome

Business Value n Links and Improves collaboration between ¨ CAE Analyst and Development teams ¨ Analyst and Test teams ¨ CAE managers, analysts and suppliers n Virtual Analysis Reviews n Maximizes the utilization of CAE Infrastructure ¨ Reduced storage needs ¨ Reduces bandwidth requirements ¨ Enables 3 D CAE data archival in compressed form ¨ Provides CAE decision support capability during the CAE data Management Copyright ©, Visual Collaboration Technologies Inc. 2005

Integration with Enterprise Applications Copyright ©, Visual Collaboration Technologies Inc. 2005

Integration with Enterprise Applications n Microsoft Share. Point n i. Sight FD Copyright ©,

Share. Point Integration Copyright ©, Visual Collaboration Technologies Inc. 2005

Partnership in Problem Solving FE MODEL FE/Crash/ i. Sight. FD / MDO/ CAE automation tool Blast/CFD Solver VCollab 3 D Compressed Visual Record Simulation Database Copyright ©, Visual Collaboration Technologies Inc. 2005

Integration with i. Sight. FD Copyright ©, Visual Collaboration Technologies Inc. 2005

SIM Flow - Result compression process Batch post-process result files -Compress data -Produce 3 D visualization file - Incorporate into web browser, MS documents. n n All the data is transferred in case of surface meshes Volume is filtered in case of Solid Meshes Copyright ©, Visual Collaboration Technologies Inc. 2005

Integrated Environment for SLM and VCollab Suppliers CAE/CFD Engineer LICENSE SERVER HQ LICENSE SERVER CAE/CFD Engineer VCOLLAB PRESENTER VMOVECAE SLM CAX CAE Engineer Location 1 WEB SERVIC E Data Extract Compress ABAQUS VCOLLAB PRESENTER SLM https SLM NASTRAN/DYNA Star. CD/FLUENT NFS FILE SERVER Benefits • Light weight CAE data sharing strategy with dramatic file size reductions CFD Engineer Location 2 VCOLLAB PRESENTER DISK STORAGE • Improved collaboration with easy to use CAx viewer Copyright ©, Visual Collaboration Technologies Inc. 2005 SLM DRE/DE Location 3

Collaboration using VCollab Copyright ©, Visual Collaboration Technologies Inc. 2005

Future Directions n Improved compression n Real Time Collaboration n Batch Post Processing n Remote Visualization n 3 D CAE Data Store and Share platform n Enhanced Visualization -> Virtual Reality Copyright ©, Visual Collaboration Technologies Inc. 2005