CDH-AG

FEM Model comparison
made fast and easy

ModelCompare is a tool developed by Fraunhofer SCAI. It is a plug-in for finite element (FE) pre- and post- processing tools and provides a comparison of two similarly discretized FE models and portrays their differences in terms of  geometry (mesh), material identifiers (ID) and thickness.

In 2016 CDH AG acquired marketing, sales and support rights from scapos AG to distribute the tool ModelCompare in Japan and USA.

Key features

Seamless interface as a plug-in
ModelCompare is available as a plug-in for GNS Animator and can also be provided as a seamless, versatile interface for the visualization tool of your choice or as a stand-alone tool.

Geometry changes
An accurate estimation and depiction of the differences in the  geometry of two FE models is made based on their nodal positions.

Duplicated Parts in One Model
Parts with the same shape and same mesh, which occur several times in a model, are identified independently of their orientation.

Multi-parts detection
A part in the first model that is split into many parts in the second model can be identified as a set consisting of these parts.

Detection of material-ID and thickness changes
Differences in material-ID, thickness or user specified function values between both  models are detected.

Detection of spotweld and RBE changes
Differences in the attributes of the spotwelds (e.g., part identifiers, element identifiers, connected parts) along with new and missing spotwelds are identified and visualized.

Advantages

  • Everybody involved in computer-aided  engineering (CAE) has to deal with numerous designs that vary in geometry, material and boundary conditions. ModelCompare is a quick-look tool capable of determining the differences between two FE models, which are discretized similarly.
  • With ModelCompare, you can quickly compare two FE models within the visualization tool used  without going through the burden of manually  determining the differences.
  • To document the changes, a pdf report can be generated.

System Requirements

OPERATING SYSTEM

Red Hat / SUSE Linux64 (x86_64)
Microsoft Windows

SOFTWARE

GNS Animator4

TRIAL INSTALLATION

You can test the products free of charge for 30 days.

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