This interoperability is supported from CAD systems, including CATIA, Creo, Autodesk Inventor, and NX, to CAE software such as Abaqus/CAE, ANSYS Workbench, HyperMesh, and NX CAE.
Dr Arthur Fairfull, director of strategic product initiatives at Granta, said. "In its third generation, this technology ensures a single view of company materials data across these systems."
Designers and engineers need materials property data to inform decisions about which materials to specify in their products, and to enable performance analysis through simulation. But reliable, approved data can be difficult to obtain, slowing the process down and limiting accuracy. GRANTA MI is said to solve these problems by capturing all corporate materials data in one place and making it available to the engineers that need it.