FiberSIM Composite Environments

FiberSIM®: The World’s Leading Software for Composites

Powered by VISTAGY’s unique EnCapta® technology, FiberSIM® has become the world’s leading software for composites engineering—used by numerous leading manufacturers in the aerospace, automotive, marine and medical equipment industries. The FiberSIM suite of software supports all of the unique and complex design and manufacturing methodologies necessary to engineer innovative, durable and lightweight composite products and parts.

It’s also the only comprehensive software suite that addresses the entire composites engineering process, from conception, laminate definition and ply creation through simulation, documentation and manufacturing. FiberSIM is integrated into the leading commercial CAD systems (CATIA V4, CATIA V5, NX and Pro/ENGINEER) to help you capture a truly complete digital product definition. And FiberSIM goes beyond CAD to create a customized environment that enables you to ‘work how you think’ when designing innovative, bleeding-edge products that create a competitive advantage.

VISTAGY’s composite environments support every step of the composite part development process including:

  • Specifying laminates and selecting ply creation methodologies including ply-based, zone-based or structure-based design to utilize the best process for the job;
  • Automatically creating ply geometry by defining transitions with sequence, drop-off and stagger profiles that automatically populate the CAD model, as opposed to the tedious process of manually creating the CAD curves for each ply;
  • Generating variable offset surfaces and solids, including mock-up surfaces for interference checking, mating surfaces that model where two parts join together and tooling surfaces for manufacturing;
  • Verifying and communicating design requirements and details through the generation of engineering documentation and/or Microsoft Excel tables;
  • Simulating part producibility by providing immediate feedback early in the design process to streamline development efficiency;
  • Defining extended boundaries and other manufacturing details such as splices, darts and tape courses in order to reduce time-to-part and costs;
  • Creating manufacturing documentation for factory floor instruction that verifies all data is correct;
  • Automatically generating manufacturing data—such as flat patterns and data to drive automated cutting machines, laser projection systems, fiber placement machines and tape laying machines—and sharing it downstream and across the enterprise.

VISTAGY’s FiberSIM suite of software tools includes the choice of one of the following requisite engineering environments:

as well as the following optional products for specific tasks:

To learn about how customers across the globe have used FiberSIM successfully in production, please click here.