HEEDS MDO 2017.04.2 EEDS Multidisciplinary Design Exploration Software HEEDS® automates the design exploration process. With revolutionary search strategies available only in HEEDS, you can uncover new design concepts that improve products and significantly reduce development costs. Even engineers with very little design optimization experience can use HEEDS to discover optimal designs — in a fraction of the time it would take to perform even a handful of manual iterations. Unlocks the Power of Your CAE Tools HEEDS integrates well with all popular CAE applications to automate and expedite design exploration. It can work with multiple software tools to handle pre- and post-processing, simulation, and multidisciplinary optimization. HEEDS MDO features direct input and output to many commercial software tools such as: ► Abaqus ► Excel ► NX ► Abaqus/CAE ► LS-DYNA ► SOLIDWORKS ► Adams ► MATLAB ► SOLIDWORKS Simulation ► ANSYS WB ► Nastran ► STAR-CCM+ Additionally, HEEDS offers a powerful generic interface that allows it to link to any commercial or proprietary CAE tool that creates input and/or output files in ASCII format. If you want to know whether your tool will work with HEEDS, contact us to find out. Exclusive Search Technology HEEDS's default search method, SHERPA, uses multiple search strategies simultaneously, and it dynamically adapts to the problem as it learns about the design space. The unique advantages of SHERPA include: Speed — SHERPA requires fewer evaluations than other methods and often finds a solution the first time, saving you days or even weeks of CPU time during routine optimization studies. Robustness — SHERPA identifies better-quality solutions, for broad classes of problems, and performs global and local optimization at the same time. No tuning parameters — With SHERPA, you only need to specify the number of evaluations you want to conduct. Multidisciplinary Whether the problem is structural (linear or nonlinear, static or dynamic, bulk materials or composites), fluid, thermal, or acoustic in nature, involves NVH and dynamics, or any combination of these, HEEDS can help you find the optimal solution.