Enventive Features: Product Overview

We at Enventive design our software with usability, efficiency, and accuracy as our top priorities. Close contact with our customers ensures that product enhancements are focused on adding and improving the features most important to our user community.

Enventive is a full-featured mechanical engineering software product that uses tolerance analysis as an integral part of the optimization process. Enventive introduces the concept of intelligent modeling, an infrastructure for incorporating product function in geometric models. Enventive's unique ability to combine analysis, simulation, design, and optimization enables engineers to:

• Analyze the variation in a force as a mechanism moves through its range of motion
• Embed formulas computing functional properties in component models
• Optimize critical parameters from an embedded tolerance analysis report, simultaneously minimizing variation while driving parameters to meet design goals.

Enventive Highlights

• Tolerance Analysis: By providing cohesive geometric modeling, equation solving, backsolving, and optimization, Enventive can analyze in seconds what requires hours in competing products. Tolerance analysis reports are written to an integrated Excel spreadsheet that is bi-directionally associative with the Enventive model and provides a familiar and flexible view of the results for engineers, designers and managers.
• Conceptual Design: Enventive's models are comprehensive, working representations of a part, not just sketches of geometric objects.
• Travel and Effort Studies: Enventive's force modeling coupled with its equation solving, tolerance analysis, and kinematic capabilities make it a powerful tool for travel and effort studies, such as determining the force to move a lever, open a latch or operate a clutch.
• Mechanisms & Tolerance-in-Motion: Users can automatically step a mechanism through its complete range of motion, while concurrently running tolerance analysis to assess variation across a range of motion.
• Performance Modeling: Enventive combines geometric and mathematical modeling. Dimensions can be directly used in equations, and equations can be used to drive dimensions. Tolerance analysis may be run on any computed parameter.
• Optimization: Enventive is the only mechanical engineering tool that provides optimization of both parameters and tolerances directly from the embedded tolerance analysis report.
• Smart Components: Enventive’s unique approach to modeling is based on Smart Components, which accumulate engineering knowledge in the course of product design activities, and preserve the knowledge for reuse in future products.

Enventive Benefits

• Easier to learn and use than similar tools
• Combines geometry, variation, kinematics and loads
• Combines geometric and non-geometric data
  
• Embeds spreadsheet analysis
• Can be connected to CAD models via SQL
• Automatic detection of contributors