Materialise and ANSYS Deliver Mimics and Workbench Interoperability

By DE Editors

Materialise NV, which develops the medical image processing solution Mimics, has collaborated with ANSYS, Inc. to provide product interoperability. The latest Mimics 12.1 version enables users to export to the ANSYS Workbench format. This feature will facilitate the workflow for the Mimics user community.

Realizing that many users perform finite element analysis (FEA) or computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations as part of its biomedical research and product development, Materialise has invested in strengthening Mimics' link to engineering simulation software. In the new 12.1 version, this culminated in the incorporation of volumetric mesh generation in Mimics. Using image-based material assignment, Mimics prepares accurate volumetric mesh models directly from image data, ready to be analyzed with any CAE package.

Although Mimics already offered interoperability with software from ANSYS, including ANSYS CFX, ANSYS FLUENT, and ANSYS Mechanical products, an advancement in the new 12.1 version enables the Mimics user to export 3D files to the ANSYS Workbench platform.

For more information, visit Materialise and ANSYS.

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