Comet Optronics Simulations

Jumpstart Early Optronics Simulation with Comet/Optronics

Developing complex Optronics systems is a multi-disciplinary challenge, requiring intense collaboration between mechanical and optical engineers as well as structural and optical analysts.

Even the most collaborative teams are frustrated with the need to build and maintain interfaces and linkages between different software systems. Keeping everyone's models current to maintain design integrity is a major bottleneck and a drain on productivity.

Until now.

With Comet/Optronics, you easily and quickly integrate CAD, CAE, thermal, and optics applications - with full associativity in a single project environment. Comet/Optronics allows you to work with your choice of solid modeling and simulation applications - without translations and without building or maintaining subroutines and linkages.

With Comet/Optronics, you only need to build and maintain a single model as described in the chart below.

The Typical Engineering Environment	The Comet Environment
A typical workgroup might include: An optical engineer with a Code V model A mechanical engineer with a SolidWorks model A thermal engineer with a Thermal Desktop Model A structural analyst with a MSC.Nastran model An optical analyst with a PHOCAS model	A Comet Model Powered by a Simulation Template. All engineers and analysts using their full-powered, best-in-class tools within Comet's Single Project Environment.
Disparate group of software environments are maintained manually. Valuable time is wasted moving upstream and downstream. Team members waste time creating and recreating models for each simulation and iteration.	Changes made to the model in CAD mode are fully associative to the analysis model and vice versa. Team members automate simulation tasks and capture procedures and best practices, empowering a designer (instead of an expert analyst) to run analyses.

Benefits of Comet/Optronics:

	Analyses are conducted early in the product development process, when simulation has the greatest impact on product design and quality
	Full bi-directional association between parametric CAD models is achieved controlling all underlying engineering data required for simulating that model
	Work with all of your models and processes in one place - the Comet environment
	One engineering model serves all simulation needs across multi-disciplinary studies - no more re-building and recreating multiple models whenever a change is made to the design
	Conduct parallel development, concept testing, and virtual prototyping with the same initial data
	Data, processes, components, and subsystems are perfected and reused
	Manual tasks are automated, eliminating tedious error-prone data entry and re-entry
	Explore the design space much more thoroughly, even when multiple physics codes are required for each iteration of the design
	Stop "reinventing the wheel" when working with multiple systems from multiple vendors

Comet/Optronics releases your data from the constraints of multiple GUIs. Instead of moving back and forth between CAD, CAE, thermal, and optical systems from different vendors, you can efficiently work with your chosen codes all in one "place" - Comet's Single Project Environment powered by our Universal Engineering Model™ (UEM).

Why suffer from delays and errors caused by manual data entry and re-entry? Why waste time building and maintaining custom subroutines and linkages?

With Comet's Abstract Modeling technology, begin simulation work earlier than ever before - even before any geometry is created.