Maplesoft MapleSim 2016

The latest release of MapleSim provides a variety of features that streamline the user experience, expand modelling scope and strengthen connectivity with other tools.

Improvements in MapleSim 2016 include task panels that appear automatically as needed and then disappear again to maximise model workspace; a redesigned layout that ensures tools are readily available at the moment they are needed; and a search bar that provides a single point of access for searching help pages, component libraries, examples, attachments, templates and models from the MapleSim Model Gallery.

The product also includes an expanded multibody component library to support contact modelling, which covers a variety of surface shapes and enables engineers to quickly model contact between different objects in their model.

All add-ons and connector products have been updated to take advantage of the computational power of the recently announced Maple 2016. In addition, the MapleSim CAD Toolbox has been extended to work with the latest versions of major CAD tools, and the MapleSim Connector now supports single-precision export of Simulink S-functions.

As part of this release, Maplesoft has also introduced the MapleSim Pneumatics Library from Modelon, which allows engineers to take advantage of the component library from Modelon in their system-level designs. This library can be used in the modelling and simulation of pneumatic systems for system design, component sizing and control design, with applications in construction equipment, machine design or commercial vehicle design.