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Design & engineering simulation solutions

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About MSC Software
MSC Software develops predictive simulation software for engineers to validate and optimize product designs using virtual prototypes. This technology is used across various industries to replace traditional physical prototyping, improving quality, saving time, and reducing costs. Applications include finite element analysis, acoustics, and fluid-structure interaction.
Message from the CEO
Dr. Roger Assaker highlights MSC Software's commitment to delivering certainty through advanced simulation technologies, aiding manufacturers in designing safer, more efficient, and innovative products while reducing development time and costs.
Solution Portfolio
MSC Software offers a comprehensive suite of simulation tools, including MSC Nastran, MSC Apex, and Adams, supporting disciplines such as structures, multiphysics, and acoustics. The portfolio helps engineers validate and optimize designs throughout the product lifecycle.
MSC One
MSC One is a flexible token-based licensing system providing access to MSC Software's extensive simulation portfolio, allowing companies to scale their simulation capabilities according to project needs.
Key Products and Disciplines
  • MSC Apex: Generative design and direct modeling solutions for structures and multiphysics.
  • Adams: Multibody dynamics simulation for mechanisms.
  • Romax Nexus: Electromechanical simulation.
  • Actran: Acoustic simulation.
  • Cradle CFD: Computational fluid dynamics solutions.
  • Simufact: Manufacturing process simulation for the metalworking industry.
Training and Support
MSC Software offers global engineering services and training through the MSC Learning Center to ensure effective utilization of their simulation tools.
MSC Apex | Generative Design
An automated design optimization tool that simplifies the design process by generating complex structures suitable for additive manufacturing, significantly reducing design time and costs.
MSC Apex | Modeler
A direct modeling and CAD-and-Mesh solution enhancing productivity in geometry clean-up and mesh creation, reducing geometry creation and meshing time significantly.
MSC Apex | Structures
Integrates a Finite Element Analysis solver for linear structural analysis, supporting incremental validation and solving, enhancing productivity by enabling faster analysis.
Adams
A multibody dynamics simulation solution that helps engineers study the dynamics of moving parts, allowing early system-level design validation, reducing development costs, and improving efficiency.
Romax Nexus
A suite of applications for electro-mechanical simulations, focusing on gearboxes, drivetrains, and bearings, supporting rapid modeling, concept exploration, and detailed simulation.
Actran
Known as the gold standard in acoustic simulation, helping industries meet noise regulations and improve product design acoustic performance.
MSC CoSim
Provides a co-simulation interface for coupling different solvers/disciplines within a multi-physics framework, enhancing simulation accuracy.
Cradle CFD
Offers state-of-the-art computational fluid dynamics simulation and visualization software, supporting multiphysics co-simulation and chained simulation capabilities.
Simufact Welding
A simulation tool for various welding processes, offering scalable calculation approaches to balance speed and accuracy.
Simufact Additive
Focuses on simulating metal-based additive manufacturing processes, predicting and compensating for distortion, residual stress, and temperature distribution.
MSC Nastran
A multidisciplinary structural analysis application used for static, dynamic, and thermal analysis, supporting both linear and nonlinear domains.
Dytran
An explicit FEA solution for simulating short-duration events like impacts and crashes, offering structural, material flow, and fluid-structure interaction analysis capabilities.
Volume Graphics
Provides software for non-destructive testing using industrial computed tomography (CT), supporting quality control automation and enhancing simulations with real-world data.
Sinda
A thermal analyzer offering a thermal programming language for complex scenarios, supporting advanced thermal problem setups and parametric analysis.
CAEfatigue
A tool for predicting product durability under various loading conditions, reducing prototype testing and warranty costs by accurately predicting product lifespan.
Patran
A pre/post-processing software for Finite Element Analysis (FEA), providing tools for solid modeling, meshing, and analysis setup.
MSC Fatigue
Works with Patran to provide durability results, handling fracture and fatigue life calculations for static and dynamic problems.
ODYSSEE
A platform integrating AI, machine learning, and reduced order modeling to enhance CAE simulations, accelerating product design through real-time parametric simulations and optimization.
SmartUQ
A predictive analytics tool incorporating real-world variability into engineering analyses, providing uncertainty quantification and predictive modeling capabilities.
SimManager
A simulation process and data management system enhancing productivity and quality by managing simulation data and processes.
MaterialCenter
A Materials Lifecycle Management System ensuring traceability and innovation in materials like alloys and composites, integrating with commercial CAE products.
10xICME Solution
Aims to save costs in material development by enhancing productivity, quality, and time-to-market.
Virtual Test Drive (VTD)
A platform for creating virtual environments for testing ADAS and autonomous vehicles, supporting massive scaling on the cloud.
FTI – FormingSuite®
Provides solutions for cost engineering and stamping simulation in the sheet metal industry, improving material utilization and reducing costs.
Global Engineering Services
MSC offers engineering services to automate CAE processes, provide training, and support project-based simulations.
Training
MSC Software provides various training options to enhance skills in using their simulation software, including live online training, on-site training, and custom courses.
About Hexagon
Hexagon AB, the parent company of MSC Software, is a leader in sensor, software, and autonomous solutions, enhancing efficiency, productivity, and quality across various sectors.
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Design & engineering simulation solutions Smarter CAE, virtual manufacturing & costing

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About MSC Software Accelerate smart change with CAE simulation MSC Software develops predictive simulation software technology that enables engineers to validate and optimize their manufactured product or process designs using virtual prototypes. Customers in almost every part of manufacturing use our software to complement, and in some cases even replace the physical prototype “build and test” process that has traditionally been used in product design. We partner with our customers to help improve quality, save time and reduce costs associated with design and test of manufactured products. Our...

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Message from our CEO Dr. Roger Assaker For half a century, MSC Software has been delivering certainty to our customers. By simulating the reality of complex manufactured systems through our software, we deliver certainty so our users can delight their customers with great products, and certainty in business results by reducing time to bring the right products to market, reduce physical testing and warranty claims long after product design is over. We do this by pushing the edge of physics simulation and the latest computing technology to simulate real world behaviors. These principles that MSC...

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Table of contents About MSC Software Unlock the world of engineering simulation with our portfolio token system MSC Apex | Generative Design Automated lightweight design optimization MSC Apex | Modeler Direct modeling & meshing solution Discipline: Structures & multiphysics MSC Apex | Structures Computational parts based structural analysis Discipline: Structures & multiphysics Adams 16 Multibody dynamics simulation solution Discipline: Mechanisms & multibody dynamics Romax Nexus Complete ecosystem of applications for electromechanical simulation Discipline: Electromechanical Actran 22 Powerful...

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Virtual Test Drive (VTD) Advanced controls & systems simulation Discipline: Systems Complete tool-chain for driving simulation applications Discipline: Systems Advanced nonlinear simulation solution Discipline: Structures & multiphysics Provider of smart costing and early feasibility solutions for the sheet metal industry Discipline: Structures Multidisciplinary structural analysis Discipline: Structures & multiphysics Dytran 38 Explicit dynamics & fluid structure interaction Discipline: Structures & multiphysics Volume Graphics Comprehensive real-world CT-scan data as a basis for CAE simulation...

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Our solution portfolio Industry-leading simulation portfolio MSC Software makes products that enable engineers to validate and optimize their designs using virtual prototypes and digital twins. Customers across all manufacturing industries use our software to complement, and in some cases even replace the physical prototyping for product and process design, development, testing and deployment to eventual retirement or recycling. Hexagon's MSC Software product portfolio Schematic of Hexagon MSC’s Product Portfolio Research & Development VOLUME GRAPHICS Quality Assurance Quality Control VOLUME...

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Starter Edition Unlock the world of engineering simulation with our portfolio token system. MSCOne is a product token system that lets you take advantage of the breadth and depth of MSC Software’s simulation portfolio within a flexible token-based licensing system*. With the subscription-based token system, you receive a pool of tokens. Your tokens are checked out from the pool and are used to access and run a full range of CAE solutions available under the MSCOne licensing system. Typically offered on an annual subscription basis, MSCOne provides efficient implementation of your investment in...

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Fatigue Durab MSCOneStarter Edition Get started with the most cost effective and flexible token system Fluids and for your simulation needs. Acoustics MSCOneSE is a flexible token-based licensing system that provides access to many of MSC Software’s key structural and fluid simulation portfolio*. MSCOneSE Starter Edition • Access to core structural and fluid simulation tools to allow for better prediction of part and system multiphysics behaviour. • Tiered entry price point depending on number of users. Typically offered on an annual subscription basis, MSCOneSE • Perfect for small to medium...

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Packed with all the simulation tools you need, and growing. We are constantly updating, improving and adding to our portfolio. If you want to see what’s currently included in MSCOneSE , MSCOne or MSCOneXT. Explore a smarter way to access simulation software at [email protected]/mscone. Marc Dytran Adams MSC Apex Sinda Cradle | scSTREAM Simufact Forming Simufact Additive FTI Automated Costing System Simufact Material MSCOne MSCOneSE MSC Apex | Generative Design

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MSC Apex | Generative Design Automated lightweight design optimization MSC Apex Generative Design is the fully automated generative design solution built on the intuitive CAE environment MSC Apex. It exploits all the easy-to-use and easy-to-learn features of MSC Apex while employing an innovative generative design engine in the background. This combination of advantages dramatically decreases the effort required in the design optimization workflow. MSC Apex Generative Design is designed specifically to generate the detailed and highly complex structures that only additive processes can manufacture....

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Capabilities • Import CAD files • Direct and fast creation of (multiple) optimization model(s) • Automated optimization process of linear static load cases • Integrated smoothing for clean surfaces & perfectly shaped transitions between struts and shell structure • Significant weight reduction through a stress based algorithm • Generative design studies to create a variety of results in a short time • Solving on CPU, Nvidia GPUs and remotely on Windows & Linux • Intersection • Local Coordinate Systems, Pressure, Gravity Benefits • New, innovative design mindset – no manual construction necessary...

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