ANSYS Announces Release 17.0

For overall productivity, ANSYS 17.0 offers a tighter integration of semiconductor and electronics simulation solutions; capabilities for automated thermal analysis; integrated structural analysis for chip-aware and system-aware simulation; and 85% increased time to results.

Preprocessing has also significantly been enhanced, ANSYS states. Using the direct modeling tools in ANSYS 17.0, users can prepare their geometry for analysis faster than traditional computer-aided design (CAD). Save and load times for complex models, as well as the performance for common geometry editing functions has increased by up to 100x. ANSYS 17.0 geometry tools also boast tighter integration to ANSYS Workbench and offer many productivity advancements for modeling fabricated and composite structures. Fluids pre-processing for complex systems has also improved dramatically. The process of preparing and meshing models with hundreds of parts has been reduced from days to hours with ANSYS 17.0.

According to a company press release, ANSYS 17.0 delivers deeper insight into real-world product performance through such enhancements as higher fidelity simulations and better post processing. Update modules include ECAD, turbomachinery simulation and native support for Modelica.

ANSYS 17.0 now supports high-performance computing solver architectures for increased performance and IT power. HPC advances in the ANSYS 17.0 electromagnetics suite deliver unprecedented computational speed for full transient electromagnetic field simulation for electric motor design. Simulations of critical transient behaviors that previously required weeks of computational time can now be completed in hours during early design stages, reducing the risk of project delays and late-stage design changes, the company states.

“Companies are under relentless pressure to create top-line growth and increase savings,” said Jim Cashman, president and CEO of ANSYS. “Innovation, time to market, operational efficiency and product quality are key factors that contribute to this business success. ANSYS is focused on helping customers improve their critical business metrics and leapfrog the competition by improving their product development process through engineering simulation. When we set out to develop the next release of our simulation platform, we challenged ourselves to improve our customers’ product development process by a full order of magnitude, or 10x.”

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Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.