Unlike the traditional method of analyzing designs, where analysis is a forensic activity performed after a failure is identified in testing, Pro/ENGINEER Mechanica analysis applications allow the engineer to understand the performance of the design earlier in the process. These applica­tions set the basis for better designs by providing the engineer with an immediate understanding of how change impacts the design, whether it’s through material selection, assembly dynamic interference or reliability.

All Pro/ENGINEER packages include CAE Lite capabilities. In addition to this the full Mechanica analysis product can be added and if necessary this can be extended with the Advanced Mechanica analysis module. 

Unlike the traditional method of analyzing designs, where analysis is a forensic activity performed after a failure is identified in testing, Pro/ENGINEER Mechanica analysis applications allow the engineer to understand the performance of the design earlier in the process. These applica­tions set the basis for better designs by providing the engineer with an immediate understanding of how change impacts the design, whether it’s through material selection, assembly dynamic interference or reliability.

All Pro/ENGINEER packages include CAE Lite capabilities. In addition to this the full Mechanica analysis product can be added and if necessary this can be extended with the Advanced Mechanica analysis module.

Mechanica Features

• A broad range of analysis capabilities exists within Mechanica including static stress and displacement, natural frequency, buckling factors of safety and steady state thermal analyses for temperatures and fluxes.
• Mechanica contains thermal Analysis Capabilities including prescribed temperatures, and convection coefficients for thermal models, import thermal boundary conditions from Computational Fluid, Dynamic (CFD) analyses, hierarchical loads and solve coupled structural thermal analyses.
• A robust set of tools for modeling assemblies including welds, handling of assembly connectivity, definition of contact between components as free, bonded, or nonlinear and simulation of bolt or screw connections with fasteners.
• The unique meshing tools in Mechanica enable for mixed meshing options (solids, shells and beams), flexible meshing options offer both automatic meshing and user-controlled automated geometry cleanup and diagnostics.
• Multiple modeling entities to simulate complex designs including springs, masses, beams and shells and library of standard sections for common beams.
• Structural boundary conditions including enforced displacement, mirror and cyclic symmetry constraints, force and movement, bearing and pressure loads, gravity, angular acceleration/velocity body loads inertial relief, temperature loads and the ability to vary loads as a function of coordinates or table data.
• Mechanica enables automated mid-surface extraction for sheet metal and thin solid parts.
• Mechanica is fully integrated within the Pro/ENGINEER modelling environment so no separate data files are used. One file manages the design and analysis data and changes are associative. Mechanica allows you to analyze your model and quickly identify problem areas and once you update the design, you can easily re-run the analysis, without recreating it. 

Mechanica Benefits

• Gain early insight into product performance and discover design flaws early, as you increase first-time build success
• Improve user efficiency with an intuitive, familiar user interface in Mechanica.
• Obtain realistic performance data, and improve product quality, by directly applying real-world conditions to design geometry within the Mechanica environment.
• Mechanica enables you to evaluate more scenarios than with physical prototypes.