Automotive & Machinery

Rapid Midsurface Benchmarks

Overview
How much faster can you create midsurface geometry and meshes with MSC Apex? Here is a collection
of industry design models where MSC Apex expedited the CAD to mesh process.

Original Solid Geometry Midsurface Extraction Midsurface Repair

Company Profile
Name: Subros
Industry: Air Conditioning
Systems
Item being midsurfaced:
HVAC Plastic Component

Shell Mesh on Midsurface Auto-Thickness assigned

Benchmark Results
Component or Assembly Without MSC Apex With MSC Apex

HVAC Plastic Component 10 Hours 3 Hours

Complete Meshing of
Company Profile Tractor Bonnet

Name: Mahindra and

Mahindra Benchmark Results
Industry: Off Road Vehicle Component or Assembly Without MSC Apex With MSC Apex
Item being midsurfaced:
Bonnet Bonnet Assembly 8 Hours 3 Hours
 3D Model of Bucket Wheel 3D view - internal details Rotated Full Meshed Model
Company Profile
Name: ThyssenKrupp
Industries
Industry: Earth moving
equipment
Item being midsurfaced:
Bucket Wheel
3D Model of Bucket Wheel 3D view - internal details Rotated Full Meshed Model

Benchmark Results
Component or Assembly With MSC Apex

Wheel Bucket 65% Time Reduction

Solid Meshing Benchmark

Automatic Feature Identification Final Mesh

Company Profile & Clean Up

Name: Mahindra and

Mahindra Benchmark Results
Industry: Off Road Vehicle Component or Assembly Without MSC Apex With MSC Apex
Item being midsurfaced:
Housing Housing 16 Hours 2 Hours
 Aerospace

Rapid Midsurface Benchmark

Company Profile
Name: TLG Aerospace
Industry: Aerospace
Item being midsurfaced:
Modification of an Airframe

Pre-Mod Configuration Post-Mod Configuration

Benchmark Results
Component or Assembly Without MSC Apex With MSC Apex

Airframe Modification 25.2 Hours 6 Hours

Solid Meshing Benchmarks

CAD model inside MSC Apex Finite element mesh

Company Profile inside MSC Apex

Name: DEMA
Benchmark Results
Industry: Aerospace
Supplier – Fuselage Component or Assembly Without MSC Apex With MSC Apex
sections, passenger floors,
tail cones, ... Avionics Door 16 Hours 4 Hours

Item being edited and

meshed: Aircraft
Avionics Door
 Suppress edges functions used Local Shadows caused by
Company Profile to remove undesirable edges in round-off inaccuracies
a single step
Name: Dynetics
Technical Services
Industry: Aerospace
Supplier – Fuselage
sections, passenger floors,
tail cones, ...
Item being edited and
meshed: Fuel Pump
Component Engineers sketched new Ideal mesh quality is seen
surface boundaries on leading (left) and trailing
(right) edges

Benchmark Results
Component or Assembly Without MSC Apex With MSC Apex

Fuel Pump Component 2 Days 1 Hour

+10x Faster
Other Midsurfacing & Meshing Examples
Trailing Edge Flap Machined Door

Without MSC Apex: 40 h Without MSC Apex: 6 h

With MSC Apex: 4 h With MSC Apex: 30 mins

Machined Rib Electronic Plastic Case

Without MSC Apex: 50 h Without MSC Apex: 6 h

With MSC Apex: 3.5 h With MSC Apex: 36 mins
 Train Tank Windshield Cowl Cover

Without MSC Apex: 40 h Without MSC Apex: 20 h

With MSC Apex: 1 h With MSC Apex: 2 h

Customer Testimonials

“Apex is a modern and effective

“The ability to create mid-planes
tool to prepare our 3D Cad
on the fly and to quickly simplify
geometries for high quality FEM
geometry for meshing purposes is
models. [...] Apex is our new
unmatched.”
companion to meet that challenge.”
-TLG
-MacGregor

“The MSC Apex Modeler “MSC Apex is easy to work with

mid-surface capability and reduced the time to build a
has sped up our meshing shell mesh from a CAD model by
process by a factor of 3.” a factor of 2.”
-Viessman Werke -Howden Technology

“The time required to prepare the

“MSC Apex Modeler is so easy
model and mesh was reduced
to use and yet so enjoyable. I
from 8 hours to 1 hour. There is
complete the same work in a half
no need to go back into CAD to
day rather than 3-4 days.”
change the model.”
-Kaban Makina
-RSG Takasago

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