LMS Virtual.Lab Designer, A Scalable Simulation Solution Integrated in CATIA V5

LMS Virtual.Lab Designer, a CATIA V5 add-on software suite, provides users direct access to dedicated simulation solutions for general FE-processing, system dynamics, acoustics, fatigue-life and durability. In addition to these solutions, LMS Virtual.Lab Designer delivers mesh-based design capabilities that allow designers and analysts to quickly modify FE simulation models and to efficiently analyze multiple design variants. LMS Virtual.Lab Designer is fully embedded in the CATIA V5 environment, and enables CATIA V5 users to quickly analyze the performance of systems and parts up-front in the design process, without the need to leave their preferred PLM solution.

Leverage your V5 PLM investment

LMS Virtual.Lab Designer enables designers and CAE engineers to virtually test the static and dynamic strength of their designs, their system dynamics, acoustic behavior and fatigue-life performance, all from within one single CATIA V5 session. LMS Virtual.Lab Designer provides direct access to a broad range of simulation capabilities for structural analysis using ELFINI, Nastran, ANSYS and others. The CATIA V5-embedded simulation capabilities eliminate time-consuming data transfers and conversions, guarantee full associativity between the CAD designs and simulation processes, and greatly facilitate the analysis of multiple design variants.

A scalable solution for functional performance engineering

LMS Virtual. Lab Designer can be extented with the award-winning LMS Virtual.Lab software suite for functional performance engineering, and upscaled with the extensive simulation capabilities and broad range of engineering disciplines available in LMS Virtual.Lab. This allows CATIA V5 users to supplement their simulation capabilities with advanced functionality and industry-specific vertical simulation applications, and to gradually extend their installation as the scope and diversity of their simulation needs evolve. LMS Virtual.Lab Designer therefore represents a truly scalable solution that fully leverages initial investments in customers’ preferred PLM solutions.