Femap is a CAD-independent pre- and post-processing software for finite element analysis (FEA) that facilitates advanced engineering analysis. It has powerful meshing and modeling tools and supports various FEA solvers. Femap's Windows-based interface provides ease-of-use for creating accurate simulation models of complex products and systems across industries like aerospace, automotive, and heavy equipment.
This document summarizes Siemens FEMAP software. FEMAP is a CAD-independent finite element analysis pre- and post-processor that facilitates advanced engineering analysis. It is widely used for modeling complex products across industries like aerospace, automotive, electronics, and heavy equipment. FEMAP provides powerful meshing, modeling and visualization tools and integrates with solvers like Nastran to enable structural, thermal and fluid analysis. It offers a customizable Windows-based interface and programming capabilities for automation.
MacLean Engineering needed a new technical graphics production solution as their existing system was being discontinued. They implemented Larson's VizEx Transform product which converts CAD files into open standard CGM graphics files. This allows MacLean to reuse graphics in a hands-off, automated process and publish technical manuals using the S1000D specification. Larson provided the software and expertise to transform MacLean's graphics production and help them achieve their goals of an interoperable, future-proofed solution.
This document describes AVEVA Pipe Stress Interface software that integrates pipe stress analysis with piping design software. It allows piping designers and stress analysts to seamlessly exchange design and stress analysis information. This reduces time spent on pipe stress work by over 50% and saves costs. The software provides an intuitive interface within piping design programs to specify stress networks and workflow from design to stress analysis using customizable connections to pipe stress analysis tools.
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Thinking Outside the Box – Server Design for #DataCenter OptimizationRobert Schmidt
The document discusses using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to model servers and data centers. It describes creating a detailed CFD model of a server, simplifying it into a "simplified server model" (SSM), and using the SSM in CFD simulations of server racks and an entire data center. The simulations showed no thermal issues and helped optimize design. Using SSMs provides more accurate data center simulations than typical assumptions, helping reduce energy costs.
This document summarizes the AVEVA P&ID software for designing piping and instrumentation diagrams (P&IDs). It stores engineering data directly on AutoCAD drawings, allowing the data to be reused on other projects. The intelligent P&IDs can be imported into AVEVA modeling software. The software provides a familiar AutoCAD interface, supports customization for projects, and integrates with other AVEVA applications for consistency checking and report generation.
AVEVA Diagrams 12.0 allows for the easy creation of piping and instrumentation diagrams (P&IDs) and HVAC diagrams that fully integrate with the model database. It provides a fast and efficient solution for creating diagrams. As the diagrams are constructed, design information is created in a schematic model database that can be effectively managed and accessed. The diagrams integrate with the 3D modeling applications AVEVA PDMS and AVEVA Outfitting, allowing consistency between the schematic design and 3D model.
The document demonstrates the capabilities of Cable Project CAD software for designing computer-aided network cabling projects by walking through creating a sample two-floor network cabling project, including importing floor plans, placing work areas and network racks, automatically routing cables between areas, and generating reports. It also shows how the design can be further modified by assigning elements in the vertical plane and customizing tagging on the page.
This document summarizes Siemens FEMAP software. FEMAP is a CAD-independent finite element analysis pre- and post-processor that facilitates advanced engineering analysis. It is widely used for modeling complex products across industries like aerospace, automotive, electronics, and heavy equipment. FEMAP provides powerful meshing, modeling and visualization tools and integrates with solvers like Nastran to enable structural, thermal and fluid analysis. It offers a customizable Windows-based interface and programming capabilities for automation.
MacLean Engineering needed a new technical graphics production solution as their existing system was being discontinued. They implemented Larson's VizEx Transform product which converts CAD files into open standard CGM graphics files. This allows MacLean to reuse graphics in a hands-off, automated process and publish technical manuals using the S1000D specification. Larson provided the software and expertise to transform MacLean's graphics production and help them achieve their goals of an interoperable, future-proofed solution.
This document describes AVEVA Pipe Stress Interface software that integrates pipe stress analysis with piping design software. It allows piping designers and stress analysts to seamlessly exchange design and stress analysis information. This reduces time spent on pipe stress work by over 50% and saves costs. The software provides an intuitive interface within piping design programs to specify stress networks and workflow from design to stress analysis using customizable connections to pipe stress analysis tools.
Is Multicore Hardware For General-Purpose Parallel Processing Broken? : NotesSubhajit Sahu
Highlighted notes of article while studying Concurrent Data Structures, CSE:
Is Multicore Hardware For General-Purpose Parallel Processing Broken?
By Uzi Vishkin
Communications of the ACM, April 2014, Vol. 57 No. 4, Pages 35-39
10.1145/2580945
Thinking Outside the Box – Server Design for #DataCenter OptimizationRobert Schmidt
The document discusses using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to model servers and data centers. It describes creating a detailed CFD model of a server, simplifying it into a "simplified server model" (SSM), and using the SSM in CFD simulations of server racks and an entire data center. The simulations showed no thermal issues and helped optimize design. Using SSMs provides more accurate data center simulations than typical assumptions, helping reduce energy costs.
This document summarizes the AVEVA P&ID software for designing piping and instrumentation diagrams (P&IDs). It stores engineering data directly on AutoCAD drawings, allowing the data to be reused on other projects. The intelligent P&IDs can be imported into AVEVA modeling software. The software provides a familiar AutoCAD interface, supports customization for projects, and integrates with other AVEVA applications for consistency checking and report generation.
AVEVA Diagrams 12.0 allows for the easy creation of piping and instrumentation diagrams (P&IDs) and HVAC diagrams that fully integrate with the model database. It provides a fast and efficient solution for creating diagrams. As the diagrams are constructed, design information is created in a schematic model database that can be effectively managed and accessed. The diagrams integrate with the 3D modeling applications AVEVA PDMS and AVEVA Outfitting, allowing consistency between the schematic design and 3D model.
The document demonstrates the capabilities of Cable Project CAD software for designing computer-aided network cabling projects by walking through creating a sample two-floor network cabling project, including importing floor plans, placing work areas and network racks, automatically routing cables between areas, and generating reports. It also shows how the design can be further modified by assigning elements in the vertical plane and customizing tagging on the page.
The document summarizes two CAD software programs: IronCAD and the NISA family of software. For IronCAD, it describes the key benefits as improved design productivity through its drag and drop interface, design flexibility through its dual kernel support and direct face modeling, and ease of use features. It also allows fully associative production drawings. For NISA, it describes the various analysis modules in the family including static/dynamic analysis, rotor dynamics, composites, heat transfer, fatigue, and computational fluid dynamics. NISA includes a graphics pre and post-processor called DISPLAY.
The document discusses challenges with traditional computer aided engineering (CAE) software, including slow simulation times, disconnected tools, and loss of knowledge as analysts leave. It introduces NX CAE software from Siemens PLM, which aims to address these challenges by providing a fully integrated environment for advanced simulation modeling, multi-discipline simulation, and leveraging simulation results to make smarter decisions across the product lifecycle. Key benefits of NX CAE include reducing simulation time by up to 70% through associated modeling and a superior geometry foundation.
NX 9 software introduces new capabilities to accelerate aerospace product design including:
1) A customizable user interface and synchronous technology that allows faster geometry editing.
2) Modular design capabilities that facilitate concurrent engineering and reduce design time.
3) Automated tools for airframe design like pocket blending and aircraft panel modeling to reduce modeling time.
Leios 2 provides the easiest, fastest, most powerful and aordable route from your 3d scanner to your CAD, making elaboration of 3D scans, editing of triangle meshes and tting as easy as ever.
With Leios it's possible to acquire datasets from any kind of 3D scanner, to transform the point cloud into a NURBS mathematical model easy and quickly with complete control of each step and to analyze the results with powerful inspection tools.
This document discusses the importance of computer-aided engineering (CAE) in product development. It describes how CAE is indispensable for structural dynamics, crash simulation, noise-vibration-harshness analysis, computational fluid dynamics, and other applications. The document promotes a company called ttec that provides high-performance computing solutions to support various CAE software applications. Ttec's services include optimized workstations, compute clusters, storage solutions, job management, remote visualization, and customer support to provide a productive development environment for engineering companies.
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Lanika Solutions provides technical software and hardware tools for engineering, science, mathematics, and analytics. It offers products such as Maple, MapleSim, Lyrtech products, ASAP, Open Inventor, and Avizo to help clients simplify development, increase productivity, and reduce time to market. Lanika Solutions is headquartered in Bangalore and partners with industry leaders to develop leading solutions for engineering projects.
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Scale and automate your radio planning, improve radio network design efficiency and roll out next generation networks faster with cloud-native RF planning and optimization.
Planet Cloud is a cloud-native radio planning solution, powered by AI, that enables you to quickly scale, integrate, optimize and automate your radio planning. Powered by Infovista’s unified NLA Cloud Platform, Planet Cloud has been designed for users who require intuitive, automated use case-oriented workflows for efficient RF planning.
Planet Cloud provides you with use case-centric radio planning capabilities at scale, enabling higher quality radio network designs, faster roll-out of modern networks and, ultimately, improved network CAPEX and OPEX efficiency. Its cloud-native approach ensures high availability, openness, interoperability and dynamic scalability, allowing you to not only have detailed insights into your nationwide network but also to integrate network planning into other workflows throughout the network lifecycle
In this datasheet, explore cloud-native RF planning use cases including:
🔹 Use case-centric workflows
🔹 Network-wide visualization and KPIs
🔹 Nationwide coverage Automated optimization
🔹 Regulatory conformance automation
📄 Download this datasheet from Infovista's website:
https://bit.ly/3XgX2Jy
💻 LEARN MORE ABOUT PLANET CLOUD
https://bit.ly/3pb2gKw
❓ ANY QUESTIONS? CONTACT US
https://bit.ly/3p28yMA
📌 LET'S CONNECT📌
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🔹 Our Blog: https://www.infovista.com/blog
🔹 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/infovista
🔹 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/infovista
🔹 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Infovista
Evaluation of meta modeling tools for domain specific modeling language chnjlPG Scholar
The document discusses domain-specific modeling (DSM) tools for developing software. It surveys several existing DSM tools including RSA, GME, MetaEdit+, EMF, and Clooca. MetaEdit+ allows creating domain-specific languages as metamodels and uses the GOPPRR framework. Industrial case studies found 5-10x increases in productivity using DSM over traditional methods. The proposed system would investigate applying MetaEdit+ and its modeling language to new web development projects for requirements analysis.
Veja aqui as capacidades do NX para desenvolvimento de produto, partindo do desenho conceito, passando pelo projeto, analise e manufatura do produto, assim como a programação da inspeção de qualidade. Todo o ciclo em único produto!
The document describes a new software platform called Automation Platform.NExTTM from Progea. It is presented as an open and scalable platform based on .NET using modern software technologies and modular concepts. The platform is designed to manage business needs efficiently through functional modules for supervision, HMI, control, historian, MES, and industrial analysis. It incorporates the latest technologies like WPF, XAML, web access, and OPC UA to provide a flexible and customizable platform for industrial automation applications.
The software provides 3D mounting layouts, virtual 3D wiring, copper rail design/modification, and generates production documents. Users can choose their engineering approach and benefit from data consistency, parallel development processes, and reduced time to market. The EPLAN Platform standardizes operations and deeply integrates all EPLAN systems from a single database.
CAD Converter for all formats / Advanced CAD translations
3D_Evolution performs a fast and accurate CAD data conversion without the need of a CAD license and guarantees an unrivalled model quality.
3D_Evolution has interfaces for all major CAD formats such as:
CATIA V5 and V6 • Creo • NX • SOLIDWORKS • INVENTOR • JT • STEP • 3D PDF • XT • ACIS • DWG • DGN
and many others.
Supporting all current mathematical descriptions the 3D_Evolution geometry kernel performs an adaptive conversion creating models, that the target system ‘understands’ perfectly, and also bridges tolerance differences between the CAD systems.
In addition the optional Featurebased module translates fully workable models including history, features and parameters.
3D_Evolution combines an easy-to-use graphical user interface with a powerful scripting language for process integration and automation.
Our partnership with all major CAD vendors assures that latest technology is always available within short time.
The document provides information on several products from different companies, including handheld home theater devices from Belkin, protective phone cases from West280, DNA sequencing consumables from Pacific Biosciences, rear projection televisions from MicroDisplay Corporation and D2M, laser layout systems from Zircon, expansion modules for PDAs from Palm, disposable surgical instruments from GearHead, GPS navigation systems from Rockwell and Eclipse, and optical surveying instruments from Trimble.
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ERL Performance shares how to reduce the time to make improvements in product design for increased performance and reliability of engine products and gages with NX and Solid Edge. Geometric Solutions walks through the product and how it can work for you.
The document describes new features in PowerMILL R2 software. Key updates include improvements to toolpath preparation, generation, and verification functions. Area clearance step cutting, machine axis control for polar milling, and enhancements to corner clearance and finishing strategies were added. The user interface and automation capabilities were also expanded.
Movicon.NExTTM is a new generation of SCADA/HMI software that revolutionizes the technology in an unprecedented way. It is based on the Automation Platform.NExTTM, an open and scalable architecture designed for modern automation software. Movicon.NExTTM offers intuitive configuration, advanced graphics, connectivity to devices, cloud integration, and is designed as a flexible platform for Industry 4.0 applications.
The document summarizes two CAD software programs: IronCAD and the NISA family of software. For IronCAD, it describes the key benefits as improved design productivity through its drag and drop interface, design flexibility through its dual kernel support and direct face modeling, and ease of use features. It also allows fully associative production drawings. For NISA, it describes the various analysis modules in the family including static/dynamic analysis, rotor dynamics, composites, heat transfer, fatigue, and computational fluid dynamics. NISA includes a graphics pre and post-processor called DISPLAY.
The document discusses challenges with traditional computer aided engineering (CAE) software, including slow simulation times, disconnected tools, and loss of knowledge as analysts leave. It introduces NX CAE software from Siemens PLM, which aims to address these challenges by providing a fully integrated environment for advanced simulation modeling, multi-discipline simulation, and leveraging simulation results to make smarter decisions across the product lifecycle. Key benefits of NX CAE include reducing simulation time by up to 70% through associated modeling and a superior geometry foundation.
NX 9 software introduces new capabilities to accelerate aerospace product design including:
1) A customizable user interface and synchronous technology that allows faster geometry editing.
2) Modular design capabilities that facilitate concurrent engineering and reduce design time.
3) Automated tools for airframe design like pocket blending and aircraft panel modeling to reduce modeling time.
Leios 2 provides the easiest, fastest, most powerful and aordable route from your 3d scanner to your CAD, making elaboration of 3D scans, editing of triangle meshes and tting as easy as ever.
With Leios it's possible to acquire datasets from any kind of 3D scanner, to transform the point cloud into a NURBS mathematical model easy and quickly with complete control of each step and to analyze the results with powerful inspection tools.
This document discusses the importance of computer-aided engineering (CAE) in product development. It describes how CAE is indispensable for structural dynamics, crash simulation, noise-vibration-harshness analysis, computational fluid dynamics, and other applications. The document promotes a company called ttec that provides high-performance computing solutions to support various CAE software applications. Ttec's services include optimized workstations, compute clusters, storage solutions, job management, remote visualization, and customer support to provide a productive development environment for engineering companies.
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Unikalne rozwiązanie do efektywnego monitoring ruchu w sieci ! Każdy Kliency posiadający sieć zmaga się z wyzwaniami jakie niosą ze sobą próba efektywnego monitoring ruchu. W trakcie sesji zostanie zaprezentowane w praktyce (demo) niezwykle skalowane, łatwe w implementacji i obsłudze oraz bardzo efektywne kosztow rozwiązanie do monitoringu ruchu w sieci oparte o przełączniki Dell Open Networking oraz oprogramowanie sieciowe BigSwitch Big Monitoring Fabric. Jest to praktyczna implementacja sieci SDN (Software Defined Networking) !
Lanika Solutions provides technical software and hardware tools for engineering, science, mathematics, and analytics. It offers products such as Maple, MapleSim, Lyrtech products, ASAP, Open Inventor, and Avizo to help clients simplify development, increase productivity, and reduce time to market. Lanika Solutions is headquartered in Bangalore and partners with industry leaders to develop leading solutions for engineering projects.
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Scale and automate your radio planning, improve radio network design efficiency and roll out next generation networks faster with cloud-native RF planning and optimization.
Planet Cloud is a cloud-native radio planning solution, powered by AI, that enables you to quickly scale, integrate, optimize and automate your radio planning. Powered by Infovista’s unified NLA Cloud Platform, Planet Cloud has been designed for users who require intuitive, automated use case-oriented workflows for efficient RF planning.
Planet Cloud provides you with use case-centric radio planning capabilities at scale, enabling higher quality radio network designs, faster roll-out of modern networks and, ultimately, improved network CAPEX and OPEX efficiency. Its cloud-native approach ensures high availability, openness, interoperability and dynamic scalability, allowing you to not only have detailed insights into your nationwide network but also to integrate network planning into other workflows throughout the network lifecycle
In this datasheet, explore cloud-native RF planning use cases including:
🔹 Use case-centric workflows
🔹 Network-wide visualization and KPIs
🔹 Nationwide coverage Automated optimization
🔹 Regulatory conformance automation
📄 Download this datasheet from Infovista's website:
https://bit.ly/3XgX2Jy
💻 LEARN MORE ABOUT PLANET CLOUD
https://bit.ly/3pb2gKw
❓ ANY QUESTIONS? CONTACT US
https://bit.ly/3p28yMA
📌 LET'S CONNECT📌
🔹 Official Site: https://www.infovista.com/
🔹 Our Blog: https://www.infovista.com/blog
🔹 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/infovista
🔹 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/infovista
🔹 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Infovista
Evaluation of meta modeling tools for domain specific modeling language chnjlPG Scholar
The document discusses domain-specific modeling (DSM) tools for developing software. It surveys several existing DSM tools including RSA, GME, MetaEdit+, EMF, and Clooca. MetaEdit+ allows creating domain-specific languages as metamodels and uses the GOPPRR framework. Industrial case studies found 5-10x increases in productivity using DSM over traditional methods. The proposed system would investigate applying MetaEdit+ and its modeling language to new web development projects for requirements analysis.
Veja aqui as capacidades do NX para desenvolvimento de produto, partindo do desenho conceito, passando pelo projeto, analise e manufatura do produto, assim como a programação da inspeção de qualidade. Todo o ciclo em único produto!
The document describes a new software platform called Automation Platform.NExTTM from Progea. It is presented as an open and scalable platform based on .NET using modern software technologies and modular concepts. The platform is designed to manage business needs efficiently through functional modules for supervision, HMI, control, historian, MES, and industrial analysis. It incorporates the latest technologies like WPF, XAML, web access, and OPC UA to provide a flexible and customizable platform for industrial automation applications.
The software provides 3D mounting layouts, virtual 3D wiring, copper rail design/modification, and generates production documents. Users can choose their engineering approach and benefit from data consistency, parallel development processes, and reduced time to market. The EPLAN Platform standardizes operations and deeply integrates all EPLAN systems from a single database.
CAD Converter for all formats / Advanced CAD translations
3D_Evolution performs a fast and accurate CAD data conversion without the need of a CAD license and guarantees an unrivalled model quality.
3D_Evolution has interfaces for all major CAD formats such as:
CATIA V5 and V6 • Creo • NX • SOLIDWORKS • INVENTOR • JT • STEP • 3D PDF • XT • ACIS • DWG • DGN
and many others.
Supporting all current mathematical descriptions the 3D_Evolution geometry kernel performs an adaptive conversion creating models, that the target system ‘understands’ perfectly, and also bridges tolerance differences between the CAD systems.
In addition the optional Featurebased module translates fully workable models including history, features and parameters.
3D_Evolution combines an easy-to-use graphical user interface with a powerful scripting language for process integration and automation.
Our partnership with all major CAD vendors assures that latest technology is always available within short time.
The document provides information on several products from different companies, including handheld home theater devices from Belkin, protective phone cases from West280, DNA sequencing consumables from Pacific Biosciences, rear projection televisions from MicroDisplay Corporation and D2M, laser layout systems from Zircon, expansion modules for PDAs from Palm, disposable surgical instruments from GearHead, GPS navigation systems from Rockwell and Eclipse, and optical surveying instruments from Trimble.
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ERL Performance shares how to reduce the time to make improvements in product design for increased performance and reliability of engine products and gages with NX and Solid Edge. Geometric Solutions walks through the product and how it can work for you.
The document describes new features in PowerMILL R2 software. Key updates include improvements to toolpath preparation, generation, and verification functions. Area clearance step cutting, machine axis control for polar milling, and enhancements to corner clearance and finishing strategies were added. The user interface and automation capabilities were also expanded.
Movicon.NExTTM is a new generation of SCADA/HMI software that revolutionizes the technology in an unprecedented way. It is based on the Automation Platform.NExTTM, an open and scalable architecture designed for modern automation software. Movicon.NExTTM offers intuitive configuration, advanced graphics, connectivity to devices, cloud integration, and is designed as a flexible platform for Industry 4.0 applications.
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2. 2
Why digital simulation?
Industry pressure to reduce costs and
improve quality is driving growth in
the use of digital simulation through-
out the product lifecycle. Choosing the
right tools is key to achieving the busi-
ness benefits of digital simulation.
Why Femap?
Siemens PLM Software’s Femap™
system facilitates an advanced engi-
neering analysis environment.
CAD-neutral and solver-neutral tech-
nology and cost-effective functionality
have enabled Femap to become the
world’s most popular engineering anal-
ysis environment for Nastran users. It
is widely used by the world’s leading
engineering organizations and consul-
tants to model complex products,
systems and processes, including
satellites, aircraft, defense, automotive
vehicles, electronics, heavy construc-
tion equipment, lift cranes, marine
vessels and process equipment.
Femap and NX™ Nastran® software are
highly integrated and can be sold
together as a bundled solution. But
more than this, being open to all solv-
ers, Femap demonstrates the power
and value as a core analysis tool.
Femap is CAD independent and
leverages Siemens PLM Software’s
Parasolid® modeling kernel that allows
direct access to Parasolid data for
surface and solid modeling in addition
to advanced geometric tools necessary
for accessing non-Parasolid geometry.
From advanced beam modeling, mid-
surface extraction and hex meshing to
robust CAD import and idealization,
Femap gives you unparalleled model
control and flexibility with a broad
range of loads, materials, analysis
types and visualization options.
Femap is not just a solid investment for
those committed to excellence in the
use of finite element analysis
technologies. It’s the right tool to help
you realize your business goals.
Your business benefits
• Faster to market with innovative
new products
• Lower cost through less physical
prototyping, fewer engineering
change orders and better in-service
warranty
• Increased product quality
Best-in-class digital simulation
2
3. 3
FEA performance with
ease-of-use
Femap is recognized as the world’s lead-
ing CAD-independent Windows-native
pre- and post-processor for advanced
engineering finite element analysis
(FEA). It provides engineers and analysts
with an FEA modeling solution to handle
even the most complex tasks easily,
accurately and affordably.
Femap has embodied the principles of
power and simplicity for over 20 years
and continues that focus today with a
Windows-native graphical user inter-
face and efficient workflows that sim-
plify access to all Femap functionality
and streamline the process of creating
an accurate and representative simula-
tion model.
As an engineer, you demand software
that is not only cost effective and easy
to use, but with the power to model
the toughest problem. Femap delivers
just that – affordable high-perfor-
mance FEA modeling for the
engineering desktop with Windows-
native ease-of-use.
Inside front cover:
Courtesy of Eurocopter
Germany GmbH
Page 3: The modern Windows-
native user interface provides a
flexible and customizable anal-
ysis environment for structural,
thermal, CFD and in-house
applications.
“Femap with NX Nastran simplifies
the product validation
process. Reduced prototypes
also lead to reduced costs and
shorter development times.
The design cycle has been
reduced by 40 percent.”
Cui Zhongqin, Baotou Hydraulic
Machinery
4. 4
Scalable solutions
Powerful, affordable CAE
Femap is available standalone, inside
Solid Edge® software and bundled with
NX Nastran with add-on modules that
form a series of powerful, robust and
affordable solutions suitable for compa-
nies that have a diverse set of analysis
requirements. By providing engineering
and design teams with advanced CAE
tools, companies enable their engineers
to focus on improving product perfor-
mance and reliability while streamlining
the product development process.
Femap with NX Nastran
The Femap with NX Nastran package
seamlessly combines the advanced
functionality of the Windows-native
Femap pre- and post-processor with the
powerful NX Nastran solver. Femap with
NX Nastran allows engineers access to a
much greater depth of analysis function-
ality to easily and efficiently solve
complex engineering problems.
5. 5
Additional NX Nastran modules
A series of advanced NX Nastran solution
capabilities are available as add-on mod-
ules, providing engineering desktop
solutions for even the most advanced
Nastran analysis.
Proven solutions
By leveraging over 25 years of integra-
tion effort, Femap with NX Nastran
provides direct access right on the
Windows engineering desktop to the
most complete suite of Nastran capabili-
ties available today. Siemens PLM
Software combines flexible licensing
and packaging with “fair value” pricing
to provide all engineering tool users
with an affordable way to access the
most advanced Nastran capabilities
at an attractive total cost of ownership.
“Creating advanced models
that are both accurate and
fast definitely gives us a com-
petitive edge and has become
a critically important contribu-
tion on these fast-paced,
technically challenging
spacecraft projects.”
Jeff Preble
SpaceWorks
6. 6
Serious engineering in a Windows
environment
Femap delivers a depth of functionality
normally only found in more expensive
applications. With powerful tools easing all
aspects of the creation, manipulation and
review of an engineering analysis model,
Femap is the natural choice for a complete
CAD-independent analysis environment.
Femap provides exceptional value and
performance and is not limited to geome-
try-based digital data. Femap will also
delight customers working with pure finite
element model data. As a nuts-and-bolts,
“bottom up” finite element pre- and post-
processing solution, Femap provides a
range of FEA model readers to rapidly
import existing models from many FEA
solvers. Advanced functionality then eases
manipulation of finite element data at the
node and element level.
The bottom line is that Femap makes it
possible to quickly create models that
accurately predict the structural, dynamic
and thermal performance of single compo-
nents, assemblies or complex systems.
CAD independent
Femap offers seamless geometry
access with major CAD systems such
as Pro/Engineer, Catia, NX, NX I-deas™
software, Solid Edge, AutoCAD and
SolidWorks. Based on the industry-
standard Parasolid geometry engine,
Femap offers extensive geometry creation
tools including standard wireframe curves,
surface and solid modeling. Powerful
shelling, blending, Boolean operations,
surface imprinting and lofting combine
to make Femap extremely effective at
creating geometry for analysis.
CAD independent
Display multiple views of
the same Femap model
and/or multiple models in
the same work session.
7. 7
A better mesh, faster than ever
With fully automatic, high-speed
tetrahedral solid meshing and quad-
dominant surface meshing technology,
Femap creates fast and accurate meshes
easily and reliably. You can also take
over full control and work interactively
with Femap to manipulate the mesh or
underlying geometry, while viewing ele-
ment quality feedback live.
The right geometry for analysis
Engineers often encounter geometry
that is not ideal for analysis model defi-
nition. Femap provides geometry
creation and editing tools for curves, sur-
faces and solids, feature suppression and
mid-surface extraction. Solids can be
subdivided and automatically connected
to represent dissimilar materials or to
facilitate semi-automatic hexahedral
mesh generation. Engineers can
combine multiple surfaces to improve
meshing areas for higher quality
shell meshes.
Automatic assembly management
Femap can automatically detect compo-
nents of an assembly that are in contact.
The method of connection, whether
glued or contact (linear and nonlinear) is
easily specified allowing rapid setup for
assembly models.
Assembly model
“The significant meshing enhance-
ments for hexa-elements in Femap
helped our productivity to increase
by 30 percent or more. Even for
difficult shapes, Femap performs
well. Without requiring a compli-
cated operation, a good quality
mesh can be obtained.”
Yuka Fukunaga
Analysis Technology Research Center
Sumitomo Electric Industries
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Integrating analysis technologies
Leading firms recognize that a single
analysis technology seldom meets all
their requirements. By integrating multi-
ple analysis technologies in a single
modeling and visualization environment
with Femap, they can make better design
decisions faster.
Analysis set manager
The analysis set manager in Femap allows
you to store solver setup data with your
models, so you don’t need to complete
numerous dialog boxes each time you
edit your model and create a new analy-
sis input file. The sets can also be saved
in a library for use with other models.
Multiple solver support
Femap provides in-depth, high-quality
support for industry standard solvers,
including the popular and proven NX
Nastran, MSC/MD Nastran, Abaqus,
Ansys, MSC.Marc, LS-DYNA, SINDA and
TMG. Femap provides the ability to re-use
and integrate analysis models from leg-
acy data as well as from customers and
suppliers.
The complete Femap element library,
with comprehensive support of physical
and material definitions, takes full advan-
tage of the advanced capabilities of these
solvers, including dynamic, geometric
and material nonlinear, heat transfer and
fluid flow applications.
Leading third-party solution providers use
Femap to perform CFD, soil modeling,
advanced thermal analysis and electro-
magnetic simulations.
Solver independent
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documentation and help
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Integrated BASIC API Programming
Environment
Femap offers a full-featured BASIC devel-
opment environment in a separate
window. Directly from the Femap user
interface, you can access the OLE/COM
object-oriented Femap application pro-
gramming interface (API) that provides
direct access to all Femap objects and
functionality. The BASIC engine is fully
OLE/COM compliant and can interface
with Femap as well as any OLE/COM
compliant program such as Word or
Excel. You can create custom programs
that automate repetitive tasks, search
model or results data, or programs that
transfer model information to Word or
Excel to create customized reports.
Many useful programs are delivered with
Femap in an ever expanding library, and
can be found in the Custom Tools toolbar
right in the user interface.
These powerful customization
capabilities allow complete access to
Femap full functionality through
standard nonproprietary programming
languages, and maintain Femap as the
industry’s premier independent and
open engineering environment.
Macro program files
In addition to the API programming capa-
bility, Femap hosts a Program File
capability in its own Femap window.
User-defined macros can be recorded,
edited, debugged, and played back all
within the Femap interface.
Fully customizable
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Flexible solution
configurations
Femap with NX Nastran
Provides all of the capabilities that you will need in
many instances, including linear statics, normal
modes, buckling, steady-state and transient heat
transfer, basic nonlinear, design sensitivity and
unlimited problem size capabilities.
Dynamic response
Enables product performance to be evaluated in
both the time and frequency domains.
Optimization
Determine optimal design parameters with sizing
optimization capabilities.
Rotor dynamics
Predicts the dynamic response of rotating
systems such as shafts, turbines and propellers to
determine critical shaft speeds.
Advanced nonlinear
Facilitates large deformation; supports nonlinear
materials, time-dependent loads, deformable and
rigid contact. Provides nonlinear time integration
for impact analysis.
Structural analysis toolkit
Saves postprocessing time by organizing results
data and calculating additional results quantities.
Aeroelasticity
Determine structural response from aerodynamic
loading for static and flutter conditions.
Dynamic response
Aeroelasticity
Femap with NX Nastran
Optimization
Rotor dynamics
Advanced nonlinear
Structural analysis toolkit
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NX Nastran analysis capabilities available for Femap
Femap with NX Nastran
Base Module Analysis extensions
Linear static analysis •
Normal modes analysis •
Buckling analysis •
Heat transfer analysis
(steady-state and transient)
•
Basic nonlinear analysis •
Connectors and weld elements •
Linear contact •
Glued connection •
Bolt preloads •
Dynamic response analysis module •
Advanced nonlinear analysis module •
Superelements analysis module •
Direct matrix abstraction
programming (DMAP)
•
Design optimization module •
Aeroelasticity module •
Rotor dynamics •
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Femap Thermal
Femap Thermal includes both the tran-
sient and steady-state thermal analysis
capabilities required to solve a majority
of common engineering problems.
Capabilities include the modeling of con-
duction, convection, radiation and phase
change. Femap Thermal provides a range
of thermal boundary conditions and
solver controls as well as a powerful ther-
mal modeling tool for assemblies. This
thermal coupling capability allows users
to create paths for heat to flow between
parts in large, complex assemblies.
Femap Advanced Thermal
Femap Advanced Thermal adds many
advanced thermal and fluid flow model-
ing capabilities to the Femap Thermal
package. For example, fluid duct flow
modeling includes coupled convection
and fluid flow analysis. An extensive set
of tools for advanced radiation and
spacecraft modeling includes solar and
orbital heating, orbit modeling and
display, specular reflections with ray
tracing and articulating structures.
Femap Advanced Thermal also provides
advanced solver features such as custom
user subroutines, model simplification,
substructuring and interfaces to industry
thermal codes.
Integrated multi-physics solvers
for Femap
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Femap Flow
Femap Flow provides a comprehensive
3D computational fluid dynamics (CFD)
solution fully integrated within Femap.
When combined with Femap Advanced
Thermal, it solves a wide range of
multi-physics problems that involve
fluid flow and heat transfer. Both low-
speed and high-speed compressible flows
can be modeled. The Femap Flow solver
uses an efficient and robust element-
based finite volume, multi-grid solver to
compute 3D fluid velocity, temperature
and pressure for both steady-state and
transient applications.
Forced flow, natural convection and
mixed flows can be modeled with multi-
ple inlets, outlets and internal flow
boundary conditions. For electronics
cooling applications, the package easily
models fan curves, inlet and outlet resis-
tances as well as convection from thin
structures. Rotating systems, moving
walls, flow turbulence models, humidity
and other features are available for the
most advanced fluid flow modeling
requirements.
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Siemens PLM Software’s digital simula-
tion applications are part of a broader
portfolio that empowers development
teams at the world’s largest OEMs
as well as thousands of the world’s
smaller companies. Value depends on
the ability of solutions to scale, ensur-
ing the right software is available to
the right people and that specialists
can leverage the work of the much
wider development team.
Throughout its product portfolio,
Siemens PLM Software leverages key
attributes that help companies achieve
business objectives such as waste
reduction, quality improvement,
shorter cycle times and greater product
innovation. These unique attributes
directly support business process initia-
tives aimed at transforming product
development:
Managed development
environment
Full integration, synchronized
management of all product data and
process knowledge to transform prod-
uct development with a structured
collaborative environment.
Unified product development
solution
Seamless integration of applications
to rapidly propagate changes of
product and process information,
replacing point solutions with a
unified development system, from
concept to manufacturing.
Knowledge-driven automation
The application of product and
process knowledge across all elements
of product development to automate
processes and maximize re-use.
Simulation, validation and
optimization
Comprehensive simulation and
validation tools to automatically
check performance and manufactur-
ability at every step of the
development process for closed-loop,
continuous, repeatable validation.
System-based modeling
Structured conceptual models stan-
dardized design practices that allow
rapid creation of variants, transforming
development from component-based
design to a systems
engineering approach.
The Siemens PLM Software
advantage
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