Talking about what’s new at MVP and more info on CKS software from IBM. (Cant see the video? View it on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxb11X61WGo)

(for more on CKS see this post)

Brief Overview of Sculptor from Optimal Solutions

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Today, I want to give a brief background on a cool software tool, called Sculptor from Optimal Solutions. The guys at Optimal Solutions were very helpful in providing me with a webinar and demo of Sculptor in real time. (Thanks John and Taylor!)

Disclaimer for this post: This is not a full review but simply a brief introduction to the software. To learn more, visit http://www.optimalsolutions.us/ .

So what is Sculptor? From Optimal Solutions website:

“Put simply, Sculptor is shape deformation software. It can arbitrarily deform the shape of a computerized object whose shape is defined by the points of a grid. The grid is defined by a CFD [or an FEA] code”

One of the features of Sculptor is its’ geometry optimization ability. Figure below demonstrates really well how this software can save a lot of time and money during the engineering design process.

Figure courtesy of Optimal Solutions:

Sculptor takes out the need to go back and change geometry in CAD itself. The engineering design process becomes much more efficient, since the optimization feedback loop is now much shorter and less complex (see figure above). In addition re-meshing in CFD or FEA is not as complicated as changing geometry in CAD.

The engineer at Optimal Solutions told me that Sculptor works with virtually any CAD, CFD, and FEA software available.

This is a tool designed to save engineering time and company money, while making the design process more effective.