What's New in MapleSim

The MapleSim Web Handling Library, an add-on to MapleSim, is used across the R2R (roll-to-roll) community to model and explore web lines and converting processes.

The 2025.2 update supports the following:

• Halt simulation during extreme web responses: You can now define maximum web tension, maximum web stress, and minimum width (neck down) values to interrupt the simulation when reaching practical web limits.
• Enhanced modeling of Spans: The web Span has improved handling of loss of tension, and the Sagging Span inputs now include the bending stiffness of materials.
• Based on customer requests, when entering web speed you can use the units m/min.

Additional updates to Drives and Controls:

• Using the new Tension Control with Torque Output component, engineers can apply a control approach using torque as the controller output.
• Enhancements to the Controls section:
• Gain scheduling is available as an option for all Control RW blocks.
• All Position Control components now allow for sensor effects in the simulation.
• New Utilities section:
• The new Rewind Tension Definition component lets users define the target tension profile in winding to align with PLC settings (Options: Constant, Taper, and Curve).
• Additional roll radius input components make it easier to include radius measurements, by either simulating input from an ultrasonic sensor or by estimating roll radius from two speed signals.

This update also includes in-product MapleSim model examples highlighting the recent Drives and Controls features.

Available to: Existing users of MapleSim Web Handling Library 2025.

• The MapleSim CAD Toolbox offers support for recent software releases from Creo®, NX™, Parasolid®, and other CAD tools.
• The new releases of B&R MapleSim Connector and MapleSim Connector for FMI offer additional speed-ups to their respective initialization code, as well as options that allow a more efficient compile for targets using C macros.

Available to: Existing MapleSim 2025 Add-on users.

• The 2025.2 release of MapleSim Insight provides a maintenance update to align with the latest updates in MapleSim 2025.2.
  

Available to: All MapleSim Insight 2025 users.

• The new MapleSim Motor Drives Library brings additional resources to better simulate AC, DC, and Servo motors as part of your modeling projects.
• This library is available within the base MapleSim product package, allowing you to include characteristics of custom motor drives alongside systems from other engineering domains such as hydraulic, pneumatic, electrical, and multibody elements.

Highlights include:

• Servo Motor components. Engineers can use these new components to quickly explore how the motor behaviors will affect performance, productivity (cycle time), control response and machine vibrations of systems they design.
• Evaluate motor drive performance with the built-in inverter drive and controls for AC synchronous and DC (Brushed or Brushless) motors.
• Simulate single-phase and polyphase motor drives.
• New in-product examples include PMSM, DC (Brushed), Brushless DC, and Servo motor models.

• The Optimization and Parameter Sweep apps now let you limit the analysis time to a specific window - so you can ignore transients and focus on the most relevant results.
• The updated Modal Analysis app has new options for better visualization and scaling, and now allows you to save time when updating the analysis by reusing a previously linearized model.

 Available to: MapleSim customers who are enrolled in the Maplesoft Elite Maintenance Plan at the time of its release. (Customers who were not under EMP at that time can contact Maplesoft sales to obtain an upgrade.)

• The MapleSim CAD Toolbox offers support for recent software releases from Catia^® V5, Inventor^®, Parasolid^®, and other CAD tools.
• This release of MapleSim Connector for JMAG^®-RT adds compatibility for FEA models that use the latest version of JMAG-Designer, and also includes modeling options for synchronous reluctance motors, such as Wound Field Synchronous Motors (WFSM).

Available to: MapleSim customers who are enrolled in the Maplesoft Elite Maintenance Plan at the time of its release. (Customers who were not under EMP at that time can contact Maplesoft sales to obtain an upgrade.)

• MapleSim Insight gives machine builders powerful, simulation-based debugging and 3-D visualization capabilities that directly connect to your automation tools. The 2025 release of MapleSim Insight adds support for models using any new MapleSim 2025 features.

Available to: MapleSim Insight customers who were enrolled in the Maplesoft Elite Maintenance Plan at the time of its release. (Customers who were not under EMP at that time can contact Maplesoft sales to obtain an upgrade.)