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LiveLink™ for Inventor®

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

LiveLink™ for Inventor®

The LiveLink for Inventor deliver 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 Autodesk® 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.

The LiveLink for Inventor includes 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 of Autodesk, Inc., in the USA and 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.

MCAD File Formats Read Write
SolidWorks® (.sldprt, .sldasm)1 Yes Yes3
Pro/ENGINEER® (.prt, .asm)1 Yes Yes3
Autodesk Inventor® (.ipt, .iam)1 Yes Yes3
DXF (.dxf) Yes Yes
Parasolid® (.x_t, xmt_txt, .x_b, .xmt_bin)1 Yes Yes
ACIS® (.sat, .sab)1 Yes No
STEP (.step)1 Yes No
IGES (.iges)1 Yes No
CATIA V5 (.CATPart, .CATProduct)2 Yes No
VRML, v1 (.vrml, .vrl) Yes No
STL (.stl) Yes No

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1 Requires one of LiveLink™ for Inventor®, LiveLink™ for Pro/ENGINEER®, LiveLink™ for SolidWorks®, or CAD Import Module
2 Requires File Import for CATIA V5 and one of LiveLink™ for Inventor®, LiveLink™ for Pro/ENGINEER®, LiveLink™ for SolidWorks®, or CAD Import Module
3 To file via linked CAD package

All the capabilities of the CAD Import Modules are also available in the LiveLink™ products for Inventor®, Pro/ENGINEER®, and SolidWorks®.
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