Great work Nicole and Ayrton! I also combine Autodesk Fusion with Blender-Octane for my work too. My friend was making an octopus, clipper boat, and ocean for his CNC class but was having trouble modeling ocean waves realistically in CAD. Because of my experience combining CAD and Blender and Adobe CC, I told him to run the water simulation in Blender then import it into Fusion to prep for CNC. I love the insights into your process and am keen on seeing what's next! If you haven't already, try out Blender-Octane which is a free version of Blender that includes Otoy's Octane rendering engine. I like it because I appreciate the way it handles metallic materials, lighting, and textures. Also, the quality per rendering time /resources is great because I'm doing it all on my gaming laptop as opposed to sending to a render farm / server rendering / big beefy workstation. I'm curious about what's next, especially for Simulation Nodes and as Blender evolves 🚀
@PabloVazquez5 күн бұрын
So interesting and fun to watch. Thanks for putting this together! (and great work Nicole! 💪)
@Nickel3D7 күн бұрын
As a mechanical engineer who also runs a product visualization business using primarily Blender, this video was AWESOME. Your team’s workflow outputs some amazing results, well done Nicole and others! 🙌🏼
@supertaurus20087 күн бұрын
This is all cool mate. Blender is an all in one package no doubt. But for you guys you should definitely look into adding plasticity to the pipeline.
@CONTORART8 күн бұрын
Aussie Aussie Aussie! With the CAD work it'd be worth giving Plasticity a go since it has a Blender Bridge so they work together great.
@Benn258 күн бұрын
Blender is the most incredible soft in the world!
@ZKI_design8 күн бұрын
Awesome! Thank you for sharing!!
@DerekElliott8 күн бұрын
Blender gonna take over the worrrllldddd
@rizwanzaman17938 күн бұрын
Hi Derek!
@salil8087 күн бұрын
hasn't it already?
@canon50594 күн бұрын
The OG Derek😂
@justin76498 күн бұрын
Glad to see more companies getting into using Blender. I will say that it can be quite frustrating with the process that Autodesk now makes you go through to export models from their suite. They've slowly been phasing out the importing/exporting of universal 3D file formats from each piece of their software offerings (you can find the supported file lists documented on their website by each year). I understand that's to keep you within their eco-system (much like Apple), but overall I think it's hurting their business in the long-run. To attest to Blender's practical application; I have made precise models (turned products) for real-world manufacturing, solely using Blender.
@bucklogos8 күн бұрын
Nicole said you convert the cad models to OBJ and then import them into Blender. You may want to check out an addon called Stepper, which allows importing STEP files. It's really quite good, it retains custom mesh normals from the CAD model ensuring smooth shading, retains the CAD file structure, correctly instances parts that are reused multiple times, etc. Really helpful for working with CAD files in Blender.
@adri.progression5 күн бұрын
Ahh thank you for this tip, I usually export .obj 's from Autodesk Fusion then throw them into Blender-Octane edition for my projects.
@Mix3Design8 күн бұрын
Blender is coming to be Industry Standard , cool to see it doing all sort of stuff
@michaelokere94679 күн бұрын
This looks really cool
@assafweiss80789 күн бұрын
You are missing one crucial aspect of a good FEA/CFD workstation when running on a "gaming" CPU. While the single core performance of these CPUs is great, these CPUs have only 2 memory channels while server CPUs have 4 and upwards memory channels (todays CPUs can have 8 or even 12 memory channels). Having a high clock speed core is moot when you don't have enough memory channels to transfer the data across the cores, that's the main reason FEA workstations work with server grade CPUs, you most likely bottlenecked the CPU with the constrain on the memory distribution between cores. Although if you only have a license for 8 cores you are probably fine (the rule of thumb is 4 cores per channel), but then you could have chosen much more "economically efficient" CPU since most of your cores are un-usable during a simulation run.
@nelsonn304211 күн бұрын
Great insight into product design and Blender, sounds like something I need to explore👏
@elementengineering11 күн бұрын
Thanks! Open source, great features, Blender is awesome.
@ChrisLaupama23 күн бұрын
Great talk. PWAs should be the future here. App stores should allow native or PWA as long as it falls within the guidelines.
@rafaelhastenАй бұрын
Can you show the settings?
@nickwoodward819Ай бұрын
pwas are a solution almost no one asked for. i *want* to know i'm offline, i don't want a website pretending i'm still online. 95% of the time it's bad UX. i don't click my browser expecting an offline experience, and never will.
@permatrout2720Ай бұрын
I find the lack of installation support frustrating. "Add to home screen" is actually beyond most people. When the automatic installation works its amazing though. But it doesnt work for iOS and some android devices.
@prafullsomangol1718Ай бұрын
I like this machine. Therefore caps program and it's so easy. I have use machine like NL1200/2000/3000/900❤❤❤
@user-wx2fp9cm3iАй бұрын
native apps all day PWAs suck
@elementengineeringАй бұрын
They're not the right fit for our applications, at least at this point in time.
@Aslan117Ай бұрын
why not HSK holders?
@elementengineeringАй бұрын
Our machine is a standard spec machine specified by DMG Mori Australia. It has the 15,000RPM SK40 BIG-PLUS spindle. The BIG-PLUS technology allows the use of standard SK40 tools holders, or the BIG-PLUS holders which have the 'Face Contact' contact with the spindle, in the same way as the HSK tool system. Essentially this is trying to give the same sort of advantages as HSK for surface finish, tool life etc. If we had the 20,000RPM spindle then DMG Mori Aus would specify the HSKA-63 spindle. This is an all round machine for us. But as we do more specific work, if we purchased another machine, and needed the higher speeds, we would definitely be looking at HSK.
@wkzehy3670Ай бұрын
20 minutes of listening to Australians talking is quite a challenge.
@elementengineeringАй бұрын
Thank goodness for subtitles, right?
@wkzehy3670Ай бұрын
@elementengineering instead of reading an article at thy own tempo, read an article at the tempo of two Australians talking. I see that you yourself are not afraid of unnecessary difficulties and motivate others to overcome. Very inspiring ❤️
@JeremyDawesJezwebАй бұрын
Brilliant success story, well done.
@aidanf2610Ай бұрын
14:12 what is draft he is referring to on the plastic parts?
@elementengineeringАй бұрын
Draft is an angle on the outside shape, that allows a more simplified mould. Having no draft usually means you need to have a collapsible core inside the part, which is a much more complex and expensive mould. No draft means you can have square sides, instead of them being 3deg from square.
@nelsonn3042Ай бұрын
Great video, really loved the insight into this project.
@elementengineeringАй бұрын
Thank you!
@elshadaw2 ай бұрын
Can i join ?
@elementengineering2 ай бұрын
Hi! Look us up on seek.com for any future job vacancies.
@Zigzrg2 ай бұрын
Wtf - Where's The Fund!
@ramadhanafif2 ай бұрын
Nice, are you sharing the design and code to build the flasher/tester?
@IIkuos2 ай бұрын
Can I work for you guys
@elementengineering2 ай бұрын
You can check out Seek to see if there any positions available! We're currently seeking an IT systems administrator.
@mukundbhatia2 ай бұрын
copy of copy of copy lim tends to infinity 🤣 4:35
@darrylleo95622 ай бұрын
Hey guys, really great seeing Engineers like me geeking out on work xD. I am a CAD/CAM Engineer using Solidworks. Would love to know how to properly learn and test FEA models with Ansys! Looking forward for your recommendations to courses/materials/tutorials for professional work.
@yomamasofatwhenshewalksshe24013 ай бұрын
Should i sell my kidney to be able to buy this machine?
@samschannel723 ай бұрын
Which software
@elementengineering3 ай бұрын
Ansys Rocky DEM
@Dron_713 ай бұрын
В России уже давно используют вакуумные подушки для перемещения 😂🫵
@nelsonn30423 ай бұрын
Fantastic content guys, keen to see more 🙌🏽
@jaenudinrifaiify4 ай бұрын
What software for cnc?
@jaenudinrifaiify4 ай бұрын
Congrats, thank's
@ryantaylor86864 ай бұрын
Do you use any HPC packs? What was the reason to not go for xeon based CPU with AVX512 support? Im looking ahead for my Ansys mech workflow/PC. Great video.
@ayrtonsue41933 ай бұрын
Hi Ryan... yes, we have a HPC pack allowing for use of a GPU with a limited number of cores. Although, I believe we have trialled the use of GPU's on some jobs and often it hasnt resulted in significant performance improvements for a lot of our static or quasi-static FEA analyses. We have successfully used gaming PC's due to their high single core throughput when using a limited number of cores. We are now starting to ramp up usage of the Ansys 'cloud licenses' (I forget the name of the new system) which is great when we have more work than our perpetual licenses will permit. We have not completed any back to back comparison of Xeon performance with the new instruction set. This would be good to see any data on the performance improvement per clock cycle and whether this would exceed the throughput from a higher clocked (overclocked) gaming PC. Classicaly, we have run the gaming PC's because of ease of access to parts if something fails, the much lower initial cost of the machine, and the high clock speed/single core throughput using our perpetual licenses. But this may need to be reassessed as we scale more. Im sure Ansys, or your VAR could provide acess to info and even machines to test the performance differences. I'd be super interested to undertake that process. Maybe for another video! :) Let me know your thoughts.
@user-db5vw9we2m2 ай бұрын
AMD's 7000 series also now support the AVX512 instruction set. The main issue with gaming chips over hedt/HPC chips is lack of memory bandwidth, especially when using more than 6-8 cores in dual channel as you become I/o bottlenecked pretty quick. The main discrepancy now between intel and AMD is the lack of support of the intel maths kernel libraries with AMD chips as it's well regarded as the best optimised for the required matrix calcs. I'd be interested to see a benchmark from Ansys on Intel's mkl Vs AMD blis to see how much of a difference there is.
@tombashan14 ай бұрын
It's called "system engineering"... The practice of defining the needs and basic problems to which the system addresses. Only then do you actually start tackling the solution domain
@kallyanolekar50614 ай бұрын
Machine price?
@bilalrafiq72885 ай бұрын
Love this video series of developing your own internal LSR prototyping solution literally from scratch. I endeavored in a similar pursuit and your team is doing amazing! Excited to continue watching your journey!
@nicolasgoerg42335 ай бұрын
What machine is that?
@chronokoks5 ай бұрын
When I saw windows and nice floors, I knew it wasn't a US based shop.
@user-gt3xz6wo3o6 ай бұрын
Beauty machine ~
@user-yl6bz5jt1p6 ай бұрын
❤
@TheUnderscore_6 ай бұрын
Hello, just wondering why you focus on raw CPU throughput instead of GPU acceleration? Ansys has a GPU override env var, and SOLIDWORKS can be overridden as well (all within ToS of course), so I don't quite understand why you wouldn't simply utilize multiple RTX 4090s or several V100 SXM2s (using the Supermicro X10DGO-SXMV and RSC-G-6)? I've built a quad-V100 SXM2 server for US$2000, and it performs quite while especially at that price. Please feel free to correct me, I feel like I've missed some important details.
@enriquelopez56242 ай бұрын
hello, my friend, regards from Arequipa, Peru. Southamerica. I am begginer worker as a mechanical engineer. I totally trusth and agree with your comment. Can you share to me the parameters and characteristics of your computer of 2000 dolars, thas is the money i have to buy a desckop computer. Many thanks