The new version features enhanced data and tools that helps decide whether additive manufacturing technology is a viable option for a project, offer guidance on identifying critical design requirements – for example, relating to vibrational properties, and save time and effort in simulation projects. The 2019 version also includes substantial updates to the CES Selector library of specialist datasets.
Users can compare additive machines and materials against conventionally manufactured products and technologies, and gain a clear understanding of performance. The new Additive Manufacturing (AM) Edition of CES Selector covers all the primary industrial AM technologies, and provides data on over 950 industrial machines and more than 1,700 compatible materials.
It includes access to supplier information from the updated Senvol Database, supplemented with data on over 190 equivalent materials manufactured using conventional techniques, enabling AM materials to be considered early in material selection studies.
Watch Granta’s on-demand webinar ‘Comparing additive manufacturing materials with conventional technologies’ for a case study in applying this edition: www.grantadesign.com/webseminars/2018/compare-additive-materials.htm
Users can prevent unnecessary iterations and expensive remedial action by selecting materials early in your project. Ensure you have the right load-bearing characteristics by using the new performance indices for longitudinal and flexural vibration. If materials need to be switched out, CES Selector 2019 provides a rapid understanding of likely vibration changes.
Modeling and simulation projects can be difficult and time consuming. Enable your simulation engineering team by applying CES Selector to pre-screen materials, focusing simulation work on the likeliest candidates. And provide them with correctly-formatted input data, including enhanced access to Prospector Plastics, and the CAMPUS and MBase Plastics datasets. Extended ‘exporter’ technology makes it easy to get this data into more tools, including Altair Inspire.
Users can enjoy the very latest supporting resources and best practice information on Granta’s eLearning site. Now expanded to include additional content for the Professional Level of the CES Selector Certificate Program with our scenario-based decision tree module, and techniques for defining critical design requirements.