Engineering collaboration framework with CAE analysis data

Current PLM systems handle a variety of engineering information including design model, analysis results, inspection data and so forth. However, most of the engineering collaboration tools today are based only on CAD models for design reviews and discussions. This makes it difficult to integrate CAE analysis results into a collaboration system since the analysis data size is usually too large and the data representation schemes vary among different CAE systems. In this paper, we propose a framework to represent geometry, mesh and analysis results which covers most of the typical CAE data in a unified manner. We implemented a prototype system to show the validity of the proposed approach. We also presented the collaborative visualization example of CAE analysis results for analysis reviews in injection molding domain.

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