Accelerating Aerospace Component Engineering - 3DB Engineering Delivers Flight-Critical Systems Faster with Altair

3dB Engineering provides integrated mechanical design, analysis, and systems engineering support for fast-moving aerospace programs, especially those racing toward flight. One of the major challenges they faced was the time it took to obtain results since existing tools were not intuitive and time-consuming when working with large model sets, which is a common issue in the aerospace industry. Additionally, a significant challenge was the time it took to design a ball grid array (BGA) for use in thermal simulations.

To meet aggressive timelines without compromising on fidelity, 3dB Engineering turned to Altair’s solutions to remove analysis bottlenecks and compress iteration loops.

• Altair® HyperMesh®: to gain full control over preprocessing
• Altair® SimLab® automate model setup and prepare geometry
• Altair® OptiStruct® and Altair® Radioss® helped streamline everything from static to impact loading analyses, all within one cohesive environment
• Altair SimSolid®: to completely bypass traditional meshing

Because of the flexibility of the Altair Units licensing model, 3dB Engineering was able to use Altair SimLab at no additional cost as well as the use of Altair SimSolid to evaluate very large and complex assemblies in a short time.