Category Engineering software Comments

Electrical system and wire-harness design

VeSys™ software (with select modules from Capital™ software)**

A popular electrical tool that has been adopted by student teams worldwide. Schematics to harness. Integrates with NX™ software, SolidWorks® software, other computer-aided design (CAD) chassis for 3D wire lengths. Use for lightweighting harness. No more wiring mistakes. Score points with judges.

3D CAD, mechanical analysis, additive manufacturing, computer-aided manufacturing (CAM), computer numerical control (CNC) support*

NX with Simcenter™ software, including finite element analysis (FEA) and computational fluid dynamics (CFD)* Simcenter Nastran® software*Additive manufacturing*Simcenter FLOEFD™ software plug-in**

Solid 3D CAD modeling, including many types of mechanical analysis such as FEA and CFD. Additive manufacturing software option, CAM for CNC machining support, kinematics and more.

Composite fiber design* The Fibersim™ portfolio of software for composites engineering*

Composite fiber layout, simulation finds fabrication errors first, CNC-ply-cutter automation.

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Category Engineering software Comments

Electrical circuits and simulation SystemVision™ software (bundled with VeSys/Capital and PADS)**

Diagram and simulate electrical subsystems. Then co-simulate electrical behavior with control algorithms running in the Simulink® environment.

Mechatronics simulation and 1D CFD*

Simcenter Amesim™ software* Simcenter Amesim offers multi-mode mechatronics system simulation, including vehicle dynamics and lap times.

3D CFD for aerodynamics, cooling, batteries, other fluids, thermal analysis

Simcenter STAR-CCM+™ software CFD Suite*Simcenter FLOEFD plug-in** for NX*SolidWorks

For a full CFD software suite, get Simcenter STAR-CCM+. It is a powerful but easy suite to learn/use. Simcenter FLOEFD has a fast, easy plugin inside NX, SolidWorks, F1 team – 7days > 1.5 hours.

Printed circuit board (PCB) design PADS Pro™ software with HyperLynx™ software

Powerful, professional auto-router saves you time and refabrications, online training at no cost, plus HyperLynx verification, especially for electric vehicle (EV) high-current/high-voltage boards.

Cost tracking and reporting Teamcenter® product costing solution*

Tracking and reporting for cost portion of design judging/competition. Easy to install package.

CAN network design, simulation Volcano™ software** Design and simulate CAN network, fix conflicts, run CAN simulation on laptop.

Embedded software code tools CodeBench™ software, Analyzer™ software, Nucleus™ software**

For custom C code dev and debug, cross-compiler and real-time operating system (RTOS). Supports any ARM-core electronic control units (ECUs).

Team collaboration, versioning Teamcenter* Caveat: Very useful but needs effort from information technology (IT) staff and team to set up and learn.

Software configuration management, requirements, collaboration*

Polarion ALM™ software* Cloud-based software configuration management, requirements tracing, issue/software bug-tracking, collaboration.

Virtual test track simulator environment for autonomous and connected vehicles*

Simcenter Prescan™ software* Virtual test simulation environment for Formula Student Driverless, connected and autonomous vehicles, advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS), plus vehicle-to-everything (V2X), vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications. Tightly integrated with the MATLAB® environment and Simulink.

Electric motor design* Simcenter Motorsolve™ software and EM simulators**

This software bundle has an electric motor design package plus electromagnetic simulators.

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