ESI Announces the Release of Visual-Environment 5.5

Visual-Environment offers a flexible and open engineering framework where applications and interfaces covering multiple simulation domains can be easily implemented. Thanks to a cycle of 2 yearly production releases, ESI customers benefit from an ever evolving platform, adapted to the needs of various industries.

This latest release delivers notable new features, addressing specific requirements for the automotive industry. Among these are a rapid Model Checker, a Barrier Positioning tool and a Model Compare tool. The latter – offered in Visual-Crash PAM and Visual-Crash DYNA, dedicated environments for crash simulation – is a quick and intuitive tool to compare two iterated models and identify variations on the basis of set criteria (ID, name, area, volume, mass and properties). The differences can then be visualized and copied from one model to another. This amounts to a drastic gain in time and efficiency as engineers no longer need to browse iteration data manually. The increased productivity observed when using this Model Compare tool is estimated between ten and twenty fold.

“Dow uses Visual-Crash DYNA to develop and deliver innovative solutions,” said Mansour Mirdamadi, Senior Engineering Leader, Dow Automotive Systems. “The model browser and compare tool in the latest release 5.5 allows our engineers to obtain multiple versions of LS-Dyna input decks, identifying changes made to the full vehicle model rapidly, thereby helping us deliver optimized products to our customers.”