J2 Universal Tool-Kit
The J2 Universal Tool-kit allows you to quickly identify design flaws, maximize performance, slash development costs and fast-forward your time-to-market. The Universal Tool-kit is your constant, expert companion throughout an enhanced product development lifecycle. This state-of-the-art, but easy-to-use software suite gives you unprecedented power to design and ‘fly’ multiple configurations of the complete flight envelope in a 3-D virtual environment – all at the click of a mouse!
It took J2 Aircraft Dynamics' Aerospace Engineering and Aircraft Design over 10 years to build the "code" that enables the Universal Took-Kit to investigate all aspects of aircraft handling and performance. DARcorporation is proud to be the only U.S, distributor of this fine collection of aircraft modeling and performance prediction software.
J2 Universal allows the user to perform different tasks at varying stages of the design process and work together to optimize an aircraft model. J2 Universals framework is a cutting-edge configuration control and data management platform that hosts all steps of the design process. J2 Universal handles all the configuration control and plug-in management and provides a data centric approach to aircraft design and analysis and allows users to perform different tasks at varying stages of the design process and work together to optimize an aircraft model. This minimizes the amount of reworking and ensures that the data is consistent.
J2 Universal Key Features and Benefits:
- Data Centric Framework
- Ensures that all users are working on the same data set.
- Enables data models and analysis to be shared across the company.
- Eliminates communication errors and cuts the learning curve.
- Improves the process and reduces timescales.
- Configuration Management
- Provides traceability for all design alterations.
- Ensures that the latest designs have been assessed.
- Integrated Framework
- Provides a single environment for the aircraft’s lifecycle.
- Plug-in Management
- Offers ‘mix-and-match’ capabilities to suit team size and requirements.
- Creates user defined customer plug-ins for further analysis.
J2 Universal Delivers:
- Data Centric Application. Having everything in one place enables users to share data models and results across the network – resulting in improved process, cohesive teamwork and reduced communication errors.
- Integrated Configuration Control and Data Management. Users can evaluate ‘what ifs’ and create variant models, leading to an optimized design. The integrated review process minimizes mistakes, tracks all analysis to ensure that the latest versions have been assessed and provides traceability to all design changes.
- Intuitive Graphical Interface. The simple to use application enables users to get up to speed quickly. Its fast analysis capability means that engineers can spend more time analyzing results.
- Integrated Application Framework. The ability to ‘mix-and-match’ plug-ins enables licenses to be purchased to match team dynamics. Since this sets up a single environment for the whole aircraft lifecycle, there is no need to purchase additional tools as the project evolves.
- Import/Export Data XML. The systems allows you to share data with other applications and eliminate date re-entry, as well as providing automatic reporting and the ability to create new aircraft projects rapidly.
- Commercial ‘Off the Shelf’ Application. Professionally developed software with the end user in mind, support and maintenance are built into the purchase price – so customers can eliminate costly in-house support and maintenance.
- Mix and match additional design and analysis capabilities using separate plug ins to take control of a bespoke package that perfectly fits your requirements. This way, you get the right functionality and maximize the return on your investment.
J2 Universal Plug Ins:
J2 Builder is an easy-to-use graphical interface that rapidly develops aircraft models and builds multiple variants for comparison. Using your key specifications as its starting point, aerodynamics, component positions and weights, J2 Builder quickly constructs a reliable aircraft model ready for assessment. Tolerances and many other variables can be applied to the same data model for further investigations. This unique and easy-to-use interface enables users to construct sophisticated aircraft data models rapidly and efficiently, no matter whether the model itself is simple or highly complex.
J2 Freedom provides flight dynamics simulation of aircraft data models, allowing you to evaluate the complete flight envelope and enables users to create trim and response scenarios and use these models together with previously created aircraft to perform static and dynamic analyzes. When static and dynamic analysis takes place early in the development lifecycle, potential problems can be discovered quickly, before valuable time and money has been wasted on an inefficient or faulty concept. Universal flight dynamic modeling capabilities come as standard for designers using J2 Freedom so an unlimited number of flights and maneuvers can therefore be predicted and evaluated.
J2 Visualize provides instant understanding and evaluation of aircraft behavior through data visualization and graphic displays. J2 Visualize enables designers to create monitors, graphs and traces with which to view the data either as an analysis is underway or as a post processing tool. The system enables users rapidly to establish optimum configurations by plotting graphs from the evaluated data and by viewing and monitoring individual analyzes as they happen. The plots and data can then be easily transferred into other applications for reporting purposes.
J2 Virtual allows the user to view any results in a virtual 3-D real-world, to understand what actually happens during unexplained/complex maneuvers. You will see your aircraft in flight! This plug-in provides a unique 3-D viewing capability, which shows the aircraft and its characteristics during any maneuvers and gives the user a clear understanding of how the aircraft will respond to each challenge and allows flight test data to be viewed.
J2 Active enables users to integrate easily constructed configuration managed aircraft models into existing MATLAB/Simulink simulations. J2 Active integrates the power of the J2 Universal Tool-Kit into your current design capabilities and establishes an effective interface with both MATLAB® and Simulink® software models. As a result, you can link configurations managed, high fidelity aircraft models seamlessly into any Simulink® model or efficiently embed libraries straight into any software package.