News
New Laminate Tools version 4.0
released, January 2010
Version 4.0 introduces a new
Geometry module to streamline the Laminate
Tools CAD interface. It also brings a number of
user-driven new features. Users with active maintenance can download the new version via
our Support page.
NPL/Anaglyph Free One Day
Seminar, 3rd December 2009
A one-day seminar hosted jointly with the
National Physical Laboratory (NPL) was concluded on 3rd December. The
delegates became familiar with our software products CoDA, LAP and Laminate
Tools and had a demonstration of PlyMatch™, our ply placement visual aid
system. Sincere thanks to everyone involved.
Laminate Tools
used extensively with ANSYS at Nemo
Engineering
Nemo Engineering AS
have confirmed the value of Laminate Tools in a demanding
Ansys design environment and have increased the number of Laminate Tools
licences held at their facility at Lysaker, Norway. According to Kjetil Antonsen,
"By using Laminate Tools as a pre- and post-processor to
Ansys we have reduced the analysis time significantly for our products. Problem
areas are quickly identified while the number of FE solving processes can be
reduced to a minimum. Laminate Tools enables us to deliver Protection Covers for
subsea applications with very short lead time."

The screen shot shows an example
non-standard shape cover in Laminate Tools. Most often these covers are
tailor-made to fit the items they are designed to protect. The loading for the
covers are various lifting and upending configurations, impact (up to 350 kJ),
trawl loads from fishing equipment and various project specific loads.
Nemo Engineering have engineered and delivered
approximately 2500 metric tonnes of these protection covers for the last 10-12
years.
JEC 2009, Paris 24-26 March 2009
| Visitors at
this year's JEC exhibition had the opportunity to see the latest virtual
reality developments to our PlyMatch™ ply placement visual aid technology in action, as well as
our software products Laminate Tools, LAP and
CoDA.
The PlyMatch™ system attracted considerable interest and attention, also
prompting discussions for possible customisation to meet specific users'
needs.
Sincere thanks to all visitors and staff. |

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New contact details for our
agent in China, February 2009
For enquiries in China, please contact
CAEDA Ltd, Mr LIU Ning Sheng,
nsliu@vip.sina.com
Altair UK composites day seminar, November 2008
A one-day event was held by Altair UK at
Gaydon.
We participated actively and showed how our Laminate Tools application is
integrated with Altair Hyperworks, to deliver a great combination of two
popular products for composites analysts. The seminar was very well attended
and the content of the presentations was superb. Sincere thanks and
congratulations to Altair UK for organising this event.
ANSYS UK
Conference, October 2008
A paper was presented on the well
established
Laminate Tools / ANSYS integration, at the
ANSYS UK 2008 User Conference, 28-30 October, Oxford. ANSYS users benefit
enormously by this functionality.
New Laminate Tools
64-bit version, September 2008
Laminate Tools is
available as of September in a native 64-bit format as well, including a number of
recent user-driven new features. Users with active maintenance
can download the new version via
our Support page.
New contact details for
our Japanese agent
For enquiries in Japan, please contact Kamo
Composite, Mr Shunichiro Hisada,
shisada@hm.aitai.ne.jp
Tel/Fax: +81-561-36-7385.
Laminate Tools
used extensively for the latest LOLA LMP2 race car
The
Speedy Racing Team Sebah Lola
B08/80 LMP2 Coupe car competes in the LMES in Europe and raced
at the Le Mans 24hr race in June. It recently finished 2nd in class on its debut
race at Barcelona which far exceeded all expectations at this early stage of the
car's development.

pictures courtesy of John
Brooks and Lola Cars International Ltd
The screen shot of the chassis
shows Laminate Tools being used to define the full
composite ply layup and then create property cards for use in
Altair
Hypermesh. Laminate Tools was also used for all FEA post-processing.
The chassis is also used by
Charouz Racing in the LMP1 category (known as a Lola B08/60 LMP1 Coupe), this
car is powered by Aston Martin. This car also ran well in Barcelona, finishing
in 3rd place overall and in class, again far exceeding all expectations.
Ply Placement Visual Aid
system, October 2007
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We are pleased to announce
the commercial availability of our innovative solution for accurately and
correctly placing plies in hand-layup manufacture.
The
PlyMatch™ system is
precise,
simple to use and is fully portable. |
London Development Agency Award,
September 2007
| Sincere thanks to the LDA
(London Development Agency) for their Award to Anaglyph's Ply Placement
Visual Aid System project, as one of the most innovative of 2006/07.
In the photo, Anaglyph's MD
Dr George Kretsis is receiving the award from Lord Winston and LDA's
Rebecca Shepheard.
The outcome of the project,
the new PlyMatch™ technology, is now
commercially available. |
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Michigan State University Formula
Racing Team sponsors, September 2007
| Anaglyph are sponsoring the
team from Michigan State University for this year's Formula Racing
competition, and our Laminate Tools
software will be used in the design of the racing car that will
represent the team. Adam Zemke, Operations
Consultant for the team, said: "In the
exceedingly competitive realm of Formula SAE, composite structures are vital
to a team's success. Each team is given the task of designing, manufacturing,
validating, and racing a new car annually. Laminate Tools will enable our team
to be confident in the validation of our composites, thus lowering the time
and cost involved in production. The composite visualization technology offered by
Laminate Tools will enable quality manufacturing, giving Michigan State
University a competitive edge." |
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Anaglyph becomes ANSYS Enhanced Solution Partner,
July 2007
Following our successful implementation and
application of the Ansys
interface for Laminate Tools, our relationship with Ansys has now been
formalised. Anaglyph has become an Ansys Enhanced Solution Partner, reflecting
our dedication to maintaining and further developing interfaces between our
software solutions and Ansys.
Anaglyph now supplies NX Nastran, May 2007
NX Nastran (a
Siemens PLM Software product,
formerly UGS)
is now available through Anaglyph. NX Nastran is a powerful Finite Element
Analysis environment that major manufacturers worldwide rely on for their
critical engineering computing needs. It is a natural complement to our
Laminate Tools package, delivering a complete solution for design, analysis
and manufacture of composite structures. Visit our NX
Nastran product pages for more information.
Laminate
Tools support for Ansys
Version 3.1 was yet another significant move
forward for Laminate Tools. Support for the native
Ansys input and output file
formats has been added (Feb 2006), but also overall functionality has been significantly
improved with features such as sub-layup definitions. With the optional aid of a
CAD system, or of a supported Finite Element Analysis package, numerous tasks can be
achieved that address the design, analysis and manufacture stages of composite product
design. Full details in the LT
product pages.

CoDA version 3.3
The latest version 3.3 of CoDA introduced:
- better support for Sandwich
Panels and
Beams, with calculations for
honeycomb properties and local skin buckling modes.
- interactive calculations for
Laminate moisture uptake,
heat diffusion and GRP fatigue.
CoDA British Units variant
CoDA is also available in a variant
that works with British units, as opposed to the original that works with SI units. The new variant will make CoDA even more attractive to the US
market. Data files remain unchanged, so that data can be seamlessly shared
by the two variants.
Agents for Australia
We are pleased to announce that
LEAP Australia are
now agents for Laminate Tools in Australia and New Zealand (May 2006). LEAP
are an established leader in engineering services and software distribution
and will be our ideal partner in the region.
Agents for France
We are pleased to announce our agents for
Laminate Tools in France (Jan 2006):
SIGMEO are established in engineering software distribution and will
be able to support our local customers in the best way possible.
Agents for Italy
We are pleased to announce that
SmartCAE are now our Laminate Tools
agents for Italy (May 2004). We wish them every success and we are
confident that they will promote and support Laminate Tools in the best
possible way.