Helping design and engineering professionals discover, evaluate and specify technologies and processes that shorten the design cycle and enable success.
May 2026 Special Focus: Artificial Intelligence in Design and Simulation
In this Special Focus Issue, learn about the latest developments in the integration of artificial intelligence into engineering workflows.
April 2026 Special Focus Issue: Generative Design
In this Special Focus Issue, Digital Engineering takes a look at how generative design solutions can be used across different types of design problems and with a variety of manufacturing approaches to accelerate design space exploration, and…
VISTAGY, Inc. (Waltham, MA) announced that the latest version of its suite of composites product development software, FiberSIM 5.4, delivers optimized composites designs in a shorter period of time by enabling engineers to perform more design iterations later in the development process — essential to evaluating tradeoffs between part performance, weight, and manufacturing cost.
FiberSIM’s improved link between analysis and design and new tools enable engineers to design specifically for the manufacturing process. One new feature in FiberSIM 5.4 is its integration with MSC.Software’s SimXpert finite element analysis (FEA) software. FEA mesh information created in SimXpert can now be communicated to FiberSIM with the click of a button, creating a common data representation and design tool for composite lay-up.
Because FiberSIM is completely integrated into commercial 3D CAD systems, the FiberSIM composite definition and SimXpert's FEA definition are linked directly to the same CAD geometry. This allows products to be designed, validated, and optimized without having to translate volumes of data between different software tools. As a result, the solution eliminates data translations and inconsistencies between design and analysis and more effectively manages design changes throughout the development cycle. Due to FiberSIM’s ability to update a composite design while preserving the design intent, no longer do engineers have to start the design over from scratch each time Stress delivers new specifications.
Other new capabilities in FiberSIM 5.4 include ramp generation; color-coding of ply boundaries; new tools to develop parts with more complex core conditions; splicing; and more. Plus, FiberSIM 5.4 delivers html-based context-sensitive help.
FiberSIM 5.4 will be available for shipment at the end of 2Q2008.
For details, go to VISTAGY, Inc.
Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company's website.
DE's editors contribute news and new product announcements to Digital Engineering. Press releases may be sent to them via [email protected].
Follow DE
Join over 90,000 engineering professionals who get fresh engineering news as soon as it is published.
About Us · Contact Us · Editorial Team · Advertising · Privacy Policy · Subscriber Services · © 2026 Digital Engineering 24/7 · Peerless Media