automotive & machinery
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OverviewHow much faster can you create midsurface geometry and meshes with MSC Apex? Here is a collection of industry design models where MSC Apex expedited the CAD to mesh process.
Midsurface RepairOriginal Solid Geometry
Complete Meshing of Tractor Bonnet
Shell Mesh on Midsurface
Midsurface Extraction
Auto-Thickness assigned
Company ProfileName: Mahindra and Mahindra
Industry: Off Road Vehicle
Item being midsurfaced: Bonnet
Company ProfileName: Subros
Industry: Air Conditioning Systems
Item being midsurfaced: HVAC Plastic Component
Automotive & Machinery
Benchmark Results
Component or Assembly Without MSC Apex With MSC Apex
Bonnet Assembly 8 Hours 3 Hours
Rapid Midsurface Benchmarks
Benchmark Results
Component or Assembly Without MSC Apex With MSC Apex
HVAC Plastic Component 10 Hours 3 Hours
Automatic Feature Identification & Clean UpCompany Profile
Name: Mahindra and Mahindra
Industry: Off Road Vehicle
Item being midsurfaced: Housing
Benchmark Results
Component or Assembly Without MSC Apex With MSC Apex
Housing 16 Hours 2 Hours
Final Mesh
3D Model of Bucket Wheel
3D Model of Bucket Wheel
3D view - internal details
3D view - internal details
Rotated Full Meshed Model
Rotated Full Meshed Model
Company ProfileName: ThyssenKrupp Industries
Industry: Earth moving equipment
Item being midsurfaced: Bucket Wheel
Benchmark Results
Component or Assembly With MSC Apex
Wheel Bucket 65% Time Reduction
Solid Meshing Benchmark
Company ProfileName: TLG Aerospace
Industry: Aerospace
Item being midsurfaced: Modification of an Airframe
Benchmark Results
Component or Assembly Without MSC Apex With MSC Apex
Airframe Modification 25.2 Hours 6 Hours
Pre-Mod Configuration Post-Mod Configuration
Aerospace
Rapid Midsurface Benchmark
CAD model inside MSC Apex Finite element mesh inside MSC ApexCompany Profile
Name: DEMA
Industry: Aerospace Supplier – Fuselage sections, passenger floors, tail cones, ...
Item being edited and meshed: Aircraft Avionics Door
Benchmark Results
Component or Assembly Without MSC Apex With MSC Apex
Avionics Door 16 Hours 4 Hours
Solid Meshing Benchmarks
Company ProfileName: Dynetics Technical Services
Industry: Aerospace Supplier – Fuselage sections, passenger floors, tail cones, ...
Item being edited and meshed: Fuel Pump Component
Benchmark Results
Component or Assembly Without MSC Apex With MSC Apex
Fuel Pump Component 2 Days 1 Hour
Suppress edges functions used to remove undesirable edges in a single step
Engineers sketched new surface boundaries
Local Shadows caused by round-off inaccuracies
Ideal mesh quality is seen on leading (left) and trailing (right) edges
+10x Faster Other Midsurfacing & Meshing Examples
Without MSC Apex: 40 hWith MSC Apex: 4 h
Without MSC Apex: 6 hWith MSC Apex: 30 mins
Without MSC Apex: 50 hWith MSC Apex: 3.5 h
Without MSC Apex: 6 hWith MSC Apex: 36 mins
Trailing Edge Flap
Machined Rib
Machined Door
Electronic Plastic Case
Without MSC Apex: 40 hWith MSC Apex: 1 h
Without MSC Apex: 20 hWith MSC Apex: 2 h
Train Tank Windshield Cowl Cover
Customer Testimonials
“The ability to create mid-planes on the fly and to quickly simplify
geometry for meshing purposes is unmatched.”
-TLG
“The MSC Apex Modeler mid-surface capability
has sped up our meshing process by a factor of 3.”
-Viessman Werke
“MSC Apex is easy to work with and reduced the time to build a
shell mesh from a CAD model by a factor of 2.”
-Howden Technology
“The time required to prepare the model and mesh was reduced from 8 hours to 1 hour. There is no need to go back into CAD to
change the model.”
-RSG Takasago
“MSC Apex Modeler is so easy to use and yet so enjoyable. I
complete the same work in a half day rather than 3-4 days.”
-Kaban Makina
“Apex is a modern and effective tool to prepare our 3D Cad
geometries for high quality FEM models. [...] Apex is our new
companion to meet that challenge.”
-MacGregor
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