Femap Version 10
Femap version 10 is the latest release of the robust finite element modeling pre- and postprocessor application known for its tight integration with the Nastran solver. Femap with NX Nastran, an extensive and reputable industry standard CAE solver, is a part of the Siemens PLM Software Velocity Series. Femap v10 extends a more than 20 year history of productivity and functionality improvements in FEA modeling and postprocessing for engineers. The v10 release focuses on core simulation tasks, including pre-processing and meshing. New tools are provided for meshing complex structures more accurately, verifying mesh integrity and accuracy, and optimizing the mesh to efficiently capture the true structural response.
The current version of Femap is 10.0.2, which now supports and ships with NX Nastran 6.1. Femap version 10.0.2 now also allows import of large Nastran OP2 results files greater than 4 GBytes.
Meshing Improvements
Central to the whole modeling process is the ability to create an accurate finite element mesh easily and quickly. Meshes need to incorporate the right level of detail in areas such as those with rapidly changing stress in order to calculate an accurate response. Femap v10 adds new solid and surface meshers and new meshing tools, centralizes the existing and new meshing functionality within the user interface improving workflows, and adds new interactive mesh checking capabilities to consistently produce accurately meshed models for analysis.
Benefits and New Features
Benefits
- Improves accuracy of FEA results through higher quality meshes
- Reduces modeling times with more intuitive work flows
- Easier to use with more automated meshing and simulation processes
- Optimizes modeling process with increased modeling fidelity only where it is needed to ensure efficient analyses and faster turnaround times
New Features
- True 3D meshers produce top quality meshes first time and are not constrained by the limitations of parametric meshers
- Interactive mesh generation gives you greater control over mesh generation, and streamlines the whole meshing process
- Live element quality feedback lets you see how good the mesh is as you create it, so you are sure of getting answers that are as accurate as they can be
- Geometry clean-up tools simplify the process of creating a viable FEA model from CAD data by cleaning up the geometry and preparing it for meshing
- 64-bit support allows large models to fit into available memory so you can preprocess and solve larger models in shorter times
- Stress and displacement transformations can now be performed on-the-fly, adding versatility to postprocessing