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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 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 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.

The LiveLink for Inventor adds the following file formats to the wide array supported by the COMSOL product family:
MCAD File Formats Read Write
Autodesk 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 the LiveLink for Inventor and the
File Import for CATIA® V5
2 Via the LiveLink interface

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