Dassault Systèmes launches Isight 5.6

The latest release is designed to provide engineers with an open system for integrating design and simulation models to automate the execution of thousands of different simulations. According to Dassault, it includes enhancements in optimisation, modelling and simulation integration and postprocessing. "Many customers are gaining significant business benefits from using Isight as a tool for virtual product verification and validation," said Alex Van der Velden, director, Simulia, Dassault Systèmes. "For example, when designing a space vehicle, one rarely has the luxury of using full-scale physical prototypes to iteratively optimise both the vehicle and its reentry trajectory. "Virtual testing supported by simulation automation and design exploration technology is critical in helping manufacturing companies achieve the right performing design, faster and with less physical testing." Among the new features for design optimisation, Isight 5.6 provides a reliability analysis technique for importance sampling that allows users to compute and sample around the most probable point of failure in a design. It also includes updates to the Abaqus component to support multiple Abaqus/CAE cases by providing users with the option to parse all detected input files and create output parameters for multiple analyses. In addition, Dassault says improvements have been made to the Data Matching component to enable the definition and matching of multiple data sets within multiple ranges. Postprocessing enhancements include new options in the approximation viewer for overlay constraints graphs to perform quick trade-off studies by relaxing constraints, showing or hiding constraint boundaries, and viewing constraint violations using a floor projection graph.