Laminate Tools

Laminate Tools offers best value-for-money to professional composites structures engineers. Used throughout Design to Manufacture of composites structures, it saves valuable time and allows all involved in the process to communicate data, thus streamlining the process. Laminate Tools can interface with most industry standard CAD and FEA applications via popular file formats. With its ply draping features embedded in SOLIDWORKS, Laminate Tools makes ply creation and modification easy, in a familiar interface. Laminate Tools consists of six modules. The VIEW module exhibits read-only viewing functionality that allows for easy, in-depth examination and understanding of the composite design. The other five modules (GEOMETRY, DESIGN, ANALYSIS, CHECK, MANUFACTURE) extend the product's outstanding functionality by importing 3D curves and surface geometry, creating ply and layup material information for draping simulation, converting ply information for FEA, post-processing FEA results focusing on composite material aspects, exporting ply patterns and enabling information flow between third-party applications.