LiveLink™ for Inventor®

AUTOMOTIVE ENGINEERING: COMSOL LiveLink™ for Inventor® enables this geometry of an exhaust manifold to be modeled.

LiveLink™ for Inventor®

LiveLink™ for the Inventor® CAD system delivers a seamless integration of CAD and simulation. By establishing an associative connection between the two applications, a change of a feature in the CAD model automatically updates the geometry in COMSOL Multiphysics®, while retaining physics settings. All parameters specified in Inventor® can be interactively linked with your simulation geometry. This enables multiphysics simulation involving parametric sweeps and design optimization directly from within the CAD program.

All LiveLink for CAD products include all the capabilities of the CAD Import Module. This lets you import and defeature files from all major CAD packages.

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Inventor is a registered trademark or trademark of Autodesk, Inc., and/or its subsidiaries and/or affiliates in the USA and/or other countries. LiveLink™ for Inventor® is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or supported by Autodesk, Inc., and/or its affiliates and/or subsidiaries.

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LiveLink™ for Inventor® adds the following file formats to the wide array supported by the COMSOL product family:
MCAD File Formats Read Write
Inventor® (.ipt, .iam) Yes Yes2
Pro/ENGINEER® (.prt, .asm) Yes No
SolidWorks® (.sldprt, .sldasm) Yes No
Parasolid® (.x_t, xmt_txt, .x_b, .xmt_bin) Yes Yes
ACIS® (.sat, .sab) Yes No
STEP (.step) Yes No
IGES (.iges) Yes No
Catia® V5 (.CATPart, .CATProduct)1 Yes No

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1 Requires LiveLink™ for Inventor® and
File Import for Catia® V5
2 Via the LiveLink™ interface

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