We welcome Arne Larsson as our New Managing Director!

Effective Sep 1, Arne Larsson will join Medeso AB and be located at HQ in Västerås Sweden. Arne holds a Master Degree in Industrial Economics from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. Before joining Medeso, he held a position as managing director at Giritech Svenska AB and prior to that at Telia Net AB in Denmark. Arne will be leading and further developing the company and its team for the challenging and exiting tasks lying ahead in the future. The present MD and principal owner Holger Droege will support Arne in his tasks and furthermore focus on the companies business development and expansion.

Product News

• A service pack for ANSYS support of Inventor 2009 has been released. To download, log in to the ANSYS Customer Portal and choose Download Software > CAD Special Versions
• The ANSYS acquisition of Ansoft has been completed. For further information follow this link http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=118715&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1182182&highlight
   

Tips & Tricks

• SpaceClaim geometry interface 
  The latest version of the geometry modeller program SpaceClaim now has a direct interface with ANSYS Workbench. Parameters and named selections can be transferred.
• Remote displacement boundary condition  
  The remote displacement support in Workbench Simulation, which allows specification of 6 degrees of freedom (translations and rotations) is useful in many situations. Some examples:
  - One can specify a given rotation in degrees.
  - When large deformations are present, the boundary conditions Frictionless Support and Cylindrical Support can give incorrect results. Remote Displacement can then be used instead.
  - It can represent a "spider" type connection for wheel-like structures. It is a convenient alternative to the traditional FEM method of having beams or springs going from the inside surface of a hole to its center.
  - With option Behavior set to Deformable, it avoids the stress singularities otherwise often created by boundary conditions. For instance, with all 6 degrees of freedom set to zero on a surface, there is no average movement but unlike Fixed Support it does not produce singularities.
  + Note for ANSYS Classic users: The underlying technology is that contact elements are generated and connected to a pilot node for which the degrees of freedom are set.