Posting Leigh Hudson's reply.
PTC, please see the response to point 2; FiberSim has the capability we need on other platforms, but PTC has not yet developed it.:
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Hi Domingo,
Thanks for your patience and sorry for the delayed response, it has been a busy week.
Please see my responses below in blue <Edited by Domingo Hermosillo, "I have bolded the originally blue text">:
1. What we are lacking is a representation of the finished composite pieces in a Pro/E assembly. The pieces need to have the correct CG based on the materials used in the layup, i.e. core, plys, potting, potted in components, etc.
• Fibersim has the capability of calculating CG based on the stack-up. Customers attempting to place in objects that are potted components typically use modeled solids and added them into the composite stack-up so that they can have Fibersim automatically calculated weights and CGs.
2. We need to have the capability to specify our requirements to the vendor and represent the finished product in a Pro/E mass model. The information submitted for manufacture of a composite piece has a lot of detail that is unwanted in the Pro/E mass model. For instance, the mass model does not need all of the plies represented. Also, the manufactured piece may have details for holding, potted areas that have not been cutout or prepped for installation of embedded components, etc. We need to represent the finished piece in Pro/E, trimmed of all manufacturing features, plus showing all secondary operations. From my earlier evaluation of FiberSim, it seemed like FS helps with the manufacture of the piece, but does not facilitate secondary operations within Pro/E. If this capability has been added, that would be great!
• Just for clarification, are you looking for Fibersim to produce the final solid shape that would then allow for trimming etc. with ProE functionality? Currently, we do not in produce a final solid on the ProE platform. We have this capability on other platforms, but need the attention from PTC to achieve the same level of capability for ProE.
3. Assembly features include holes, cutouts, inserts, etc. that modify the piece after manufacture. Without a model that represents the differing areas of density, core, plies and potting, we have to recreate the construction in Pro/E in order to get the resulting mass properties for accurate CG calculations.
• Fibersim has and continues to take into account of holes, cutouts and inserts for composites in its weight and CG calculation. For holes and cutouts these process features can be added into the part srtictly using Fibersim. For inserts, a ProE solid rep can can be linked to a tracked object in Fberism can accurately report the entire weight and CG.
I hope this helps but if you have additional questions feel free to contact me.
Kind Regards,
Leigh Hudson
Fibersim Product Lead
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