05/27/2008 - DeepSoft, LLC. Assists Stone Aerospace with AUV Scientific Payload Design

Stone Aerospace, developers of the Endurance Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV), recently completed the design of a scientific payload to explore and take oceanographic data under the ice cap of a lake in Antarctica. DeepSoft, LLC. was selected by Stone Aerospace to assist them by converting their new scientific payload design from AutoCAD to SolidWorks. We created 3D SolidWorks parts, assemblies, and drawings for approximately 75 parts, numerous subassemblies, and the final overall assembly solid model.

01/16/2008 - NAFEMS Webinar on Using FEA with Pressure Vessel Design Codes

The principal attended this online seminar which was sponsored by NAFEMS and originated at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland. The topic was how Design by Analysis (DBA) using FEA codes, commercial or otherwise, enhances or complicates the use of the ASME or European pressure vessel codes. These design codes normally concern the design of boiler pressure vessels. DeepSoft, LLC. has extensive experience designing ocean engineering pressure vessels for instrumentation and related equipment that requires pressure resistant housings. We have also worked on pressure compensated vessels for deep submergence applications.

12/17/2007 - Add SpaceClaim 2007+ Professional to existing suite of CAE tools

SpaceClaim, a leading edge CAE 3D solid modeler has been added to the existing suite of CAE 3D solid modeler tools which includes Inventor Professional and SolidWorks. SpaceClaim provides the ability to accept native 3D model formats for virtually all 3D solid modelers on the market, modify their geometry and save the model file to any of the neutral 3D solid file formats.

11/30/2007 - Complete Footprint Creator program for Toll Brothers & Eastern States Engineering

Footprint Creator is a custom ObjectARX C++ program that runs in AutoCAD or Land Desktop to do complex database manipulations. The user selects a geographic region, house model, house elevation, and options; then it creates a unique footprint around the base house and all options. This program deals with hundreds of house models, dozens of elevations, and hundreds of options. This, and other projects for Toll Brothers, was a multi-year part-time effort. Footprint Creator was built with Microsoft's Visual C++ and Autodesk's ObjectARX C++ API.

05/30/2007 - Complete Structural, Thermal Stress and Buckling Analysis of a Wet Electrostatic Precipitator

DeepSoft, LLC. completed this project for TurboSonic, Inc., it consisted of nine engineering FEA analyses and reports. Wet Electrostatic Precipitators (WESP) are used to strip particulate matter from smokestack exhaust. Analyses included linear static stress, steady state heat transfer, thermal stress, and buckling. The initial geometry was created by the client with SolidWorks. For this job the FEA 3D model geometry had to be recreated as 3D plate elements in Femap and the FEA was performed with Nastran. Mathcad was used to automate extensive computation of convection and fluid dynamic properties of air for both internal forced convection flow and external natural convection flow in and around the WESP tube bundle. These analyses were completed accurately, on time, and within budget. The scope of this project grew per the clients request for additional services.

12/01/2006 - Structural, Thermal Stress, and Buckling Analysis of a Wet Electrostatic Precipitator

DeepSoft, LLC. has been selected by TurboSonic, Inc., to perform a FEA of their Wet Electrostatic Precipitator (WESP). Wet Electrostatic Precipitators  are used to strip particulate matter from smokestack exhaust. This analysis will consist of a linear static stress structural FEA, steady state heat transfer FEA, and thermal stress analyses with Nastran.

10/03/2006 - Dynamic Structural Analysis of a Tow Bar for a US Army Trailer

DeepSoft, LLC. has been selected by DHS Systems, LLC, to perform a FEA of their Tow Bar design. This consisted of a linear static structural FEA of the Tow Bar plus a dynamic impact analysis. DHS provided the original 3D solid model geometry as a Parasolid 3D model. This was imported into Femap and the analyses were performed with the Nastran FEA code. These analyses were completed accurately, on time, and within budget.

11/17/2005 - Attend the NAFEMS Conference on The Business Benefits of Simulation

Ted K. Fryberger, PE, the principal of DeepSoft, LLC., recently attended this NAFEMS conference in Chicago, IL. NAFEMS is the world's only organization dedicated to engineering analysis such as Finite Element Analysis (FEA), Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), and 3D Solid Modeling.

11/09/2005 - Attend General Electric's Seminar on Plastics

Ted K. Fryberger, PE, the principal of DeepSoft, LLC., recently attended this GE seminar in Baltimore, MD. Topics covered included new plastic materials, specifying material properties, using GE's web tools to select plastics, plastic part design, and converting fabricated metal parts to molded plastic parts.

09/15/2005 - Upgrade Primary CAD/CAE/FEA System

DeepSoft, LLC., recently upgraded the primary CAE system to 0.75 Terabyte of harddisk space and 4 Gigabytes of RAM. This is one of four CAD/CAE/FEA networked engineering work stations which are used for Finite Element Analysis, mechanical design with 3D solid modelers, Software Engineering, and graphics arts publications. 

09/01/2005 - Enhance Footprint Application for Toll Brothers & Eastern States Engineering

DeepSoft, LLC., has previously developed the Footprint Application for Toll Brothers, Inc., a major home builder, and Eastern States Engineering, a Civil Engineering firm.  This custom AutoCAD software application uses Microsoft Visual Studio's C++ compiler and Autodesk's ObjectARX C++ API to automate repetitive design tasks in the home building industry. New Land Desktop and Civil3D capabilities will be added to this application via the ActiveX API.

06/15/2005 - Upgrade Desktop Publishing & Photographic Image Processing Capabilities

DeepSoft, LLC. purchased ColorVision's Spyder2Pro Suite which includes the Spyder2 CRT/LCD colorimeter for calibrating computer monitors, ProfilerPro which uses the ColorSavvy ColorMouse their printer spectrocolorimeter, as well as related image processing software. These tools are used to calibrate the color work space of computer monitors, flat bed scanners, film scanners, digital cameras, digital color printers, and image processing software such as Adobe Photoshop and Corel Ventura Publisher. We have also added the Konica Minolta Dimage Scan Elite 5400 II which is a 5400 dpi film scanner. These tools are used to create, edit, print, and color calibrate large format color images for the Hewlett Packard DesignJet 800 large format printer.

04/25/2005 - Modal & Impact FEA of a Decontamination Unit

Battelle Memorial Institute via their Eastern Science & Technology Center have retained DeepSoft, LLC. to provide a detailed Finite Element Analysis (FEA) of the portable ultrasonic cleaner that they designed for the US Army. This work involved simplifying the clients original SolidWorks design into a form suitable for structural analysis, and converting this simplified 3D solid model geometry into a format compatible with the Algor FEA software. Following that a modal dynamic analysis and a shock impact stress analysis were conducted.

03/25/2005 - Fatigue Wizard & Algor Nonlinear FEA Capability Added

DeepSoft, LLC. purchased Fatigue Wizard, a specialized FEA post-processor which facilitates extensive fatigue calculations based on FEA model results.  Fatigue Wizard supports both the Algor and NE Nastran FEA software. Also added nonlinear capability to the Algor FEA software which will complement the nonlinear capability of Nastran.

12/24/2004 - NEi Nastran & Femap Capability Added

DeepSoft, LLC. has recently purchased the Nastran FEA modeler from Noran Engineering, Inc. of Westminster, CA. This FEA tool will add the industry standard Nastran FEA solver as well as the Femap pre and post-processor to our suite of engineering tools. This tool will add non-linear, advanced dynamics such as drop test simulation, and composite materials capabilities to our already powerful Algor FEA capabilities. The principal has previously worked with NEi Nastran and Femap.

12/24/2004 - SolidWorks Solid Modeler Added

DeepSoft, LLC. has recently purchased the SolidWorks solid modeler. This tool will allow working directly with customers who use this tool as their primary design tool without any model translation. Currently we use Autodesk Inventor which is already a very powerful 3D solid modeler. SolidWorks will allow us to work on more complex 3D surfaces.  

12/20/2004 - Principal Joins NAFEMS

Ted K. Fryberger, PE, the principal of DeepSoft, LLC. has recently joined the NAFEMS engineering analysis organization. NAFEMS is the only independent organization, worldwide, specifically dedicated to engineering analysis tools such as FEA and CFD. He is also a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and a registered Professional Engineer in Maryland, and Pennsylvania.

6/20/2004 - Toll Brothers, Inc. & Eastern States Engineering retain DeepSoft, LLC. for custom AutoCAD ObjectARX C++ Programming

Toll Brothers, Inc., a major home builder, and Eastern States Engineering, a Civil Engineering firm have retained DeepSoft, LLC. to provide custom AutoCAD programming via the Microsoft Visual Studio C++ compiler and the ObjectARX C++ API. DeepSoft will develop custom AutoCAD applications to automate repetitive CAD design tasks in the home building industry.

1/30/2004 - Principal Completes ANSYS FEA Course

Ted K. Fryberger, PE, the principal of DeepSoft, LLC. has completed a five day Introduction to ANSYS course at Mallett Technology, Inc., of Laurel, MD. ANSYS, along with Nastran, are the two premier FEA tools in the engineering analysis industry.

11/17/2003 - FEA Newsletter Article

Finite element analysis (FEA) models developed by Ted K. Fryberger, PE, the principal of DeepSoft, LLC., will be discussed in an upcoming article appearing in a  newsletter published by Algor, Inc. The 3D solid and FEA models are of an oceanographic instrumentation housing. The geometry was developed with the Autodesk Inventor parametric 3D solid modeler and the FEA model was developed with Algor's InCAD and their FEA software. This article is now available for download on the download list of this website [12/16/2003]. This article also appeared in Desktop Engineering magazine.

10/22/2003 - Inventor API Programming Training

Ted K. Fryberger, PE, the principal of DeepSoft, LLC., completed the Autodesk Inventor Application Programming Interface (API) programming course at Autodesk, Inc. in San Rafael, CA. This API supports automation of 3D solid modeling design with the Inventor software. This training will complement previous experience working with Autodesk's ObjectARX and ADS programming API's to customize AutoCAD for engineering and architectural applications.

9/1/2003 - FEA Magazine Articles

Ted K. Fryberger, PE, the principal of DeepSoft, LLC., will be writing a series of three articles about performing Finite Element Analysis for Machine Design magazine starting in the February 8, 2004 issue.