DynaFlexPro 3.0

Maplesoft recently announced the release of DynaFlexPro 3.0, a Maple package used to model and simulate the kinematics and dynamics of mechanical multibody systems. Significantly enhanced usability features make this release relevant to a wider range of engineers.

DynaFlexPro was designed to overcome issues with cumbersome, slow, and error-prone numeric-based mechanical analysis tools. DynaFlexPro allows engineering product developers to optimize, simulate, and control their designs to reduce prototyping time and bring their products to the market faster.

Designed by MotionPro Inc. (co-founded by Dr. John McPhee, P.Eng., and Patricia Shaw, P.Eng.), and launched under the MapleConnect Premier program, DynaFlexPro uses Maple to symbolically generate the equations of motion for the mechanism. The robust computer algebra technologies inside Maple create efficient sets of system equations in a symbolic form, which facilitates viewing, having a good physical insight, and sharing. This symbolic approach not only assists in the design, optimization, simulation, and control of complex engineering systems, it is also suitable for teaching mechanical system design.

Its new features include:
-- A new Project Manager user interface that guides users through the model development process with step-by-step instructions, buttons, and dialog boxes.
-- A Model Development Guide, which is a step-by-step guide to creating new models and generating the model equations.
-- An Equation Builder Assistant that walks users through the process of converting the model description to kinematic and dynamic equations that describe the motion of the system.
-- The ability to select the base coordinate system to which the other system reference frames are mapped, even if users are not familiar with graph theory.

The package comes with DynaFlexPro ModelBuilder co-founded by Dr. John McPhee, P.Eng., and Patricia Shaw, P.Eng.), a graphical model development interface, facilitates the rapid creation of system models using blocks, lines, and drop-down menus. DynaFlexPro combines graph theory with engineering mechanics in algorithms that automatically generate the system equations from a system model, and highly-optimized simulation code for real-time and hardware-in-loop applications.

For more details, visit DynaFlexPro Homepage.