Simcenter HEEDS fact sheet

This two-page fact sheet introduces HEEDS, the multidisciplinary design analysis and optimisation (MDAO) software in the Simcenter portfolio. It explains design space exploration, which searches broadly for several strong design candidates instead of refining one local optimum, and how HEEDS automates the simulation workflows that this requires.

What the document covers

• Process automation: interfaces to commercial CAD and CAE tools that connect models without custom scripting, with data passed automatically between them to evaluate trade-offs and robustness
• Distributed execution across Windows and Linux workstations, clusters and cloud resources, for example geometry updates on a laptop, structural analysis on a workstation and CFD on a cluster
• Efficient search: a proprietary method that adapts its strategy as it learns about the design space, without simplifying the models
• Insight and discovery: plots, tables, graphs and images on one screen to compare competing objectives and constraints across many designs
• Why including all relevant variables, rather than simplified models, helps find designs that meet performance requirements

Who it is for

Simulation analysts, design engineers and engineering managers who already use CAD and CAE models and want to evaluate more design options within project deadlines.