October 5, 2011 - Siemens PLM Software announced Femap 10.3 software, a pre- and post-processor for engineering finite element analysis (FEA) running on the Windows operating system. Enhancements in Femap 10.3 make it easier and significantly faster for end users to work with complex geometry models, and a new user interface feature further extends support for advanced functionality in NX NASTRAN software, the company’s FEA application. Femap is a cost effective and powerful FEM application that is easy to use and works with virtually all leading CAD applications.
Femap helps engineers produce a wide variety of products more efficiently, and with a high degree of confidence in their ability to perform as designed. Femap 10.3 expands on these characteristics with new functionality that improves the speed and usability of digital simulation, even in some of the world’s most challenging industries such as automotive and aerospace. A new automatic geometry preparation feature significantly reduces the time necessary to prepare complex geometry for FEM preprocessing (meshing), with an easy to use interface and the ability to automatically clean up and heal problematic geometry such as slivers and short edges. As a result, meshed models can often be created on the first pass without any manual intervention.
An enhanced user interface feature now supports interactive model set-up for the aeroelastic analysis capability of NX Nastran. This seamless interface saves time in complex aeroelasticity modeling and analysis – such as that used to determine the effects of airflow on a structure like an airplane wing – while significantly reducing the chance for error in passing data from the FEM to the FEA application. The Femap Postprocessing Toolbox has been extended to include the Free Body Tool, improving the ease and speed with which users can create free body diagrams and review interface loads.
