Femap Version 9.1 Announced

By DE Editors

UGS Corp. (Plano, TX) announced Version 9.1 of its t pre- and post-processing finite element modeling application last week. Femap 9.1 is, says the company, a key component of the UGS Velocity Series, the company’s new mid-market and preconfigured portfolio of digital product design,  analysis, and data management software also just announced. (For more on the UGS Velocity Series, click here.)

Femap is the FEA  (finite element analysis) component of the UGS Velocity Series. It offers in-depth finite element modeling functionality that allows access to advanced analysis solutions in a native Windows environment. Femap is also highly integrated with Nastran, the industry’s leading solver technology, to form a broad and comprehensive CAE solution. A newly established Femap Express integrated in Solid Edge Version 18 for fast, yet accurate analysis.

Among the enhancements in Femap Version 9.1 are a fully associative interface with Solid Edge V18 for effective geometry transfer in preparation for analysis as well as for maintaining data integrity between design and analysis. A new direct CATIA V5 translator enhances geometry transfer for CATIA users, and strengthens Femap’s MCAD integration capabilities, which already include CATIA V4, Pro/Engineer,  SolidWorks, STEP, IGES, and any Parasolid or ACIS geometry.

Femap Version 9.1 comes with a fully integrated BASIC development environment, providing direct access to the OLE/COM API of Femap, as well any other OLE/COM-compliant application. There’s also an updated macro-driven program file environment, with its own access window provides record, editing, and playback functionality for the automation of repetitive tasks.

Other improvements include better mesh quality around critical boundaries and stress raisers with a new quadrilateral element meshing option. Results visualization and collaboration has been enhanced with a new option to directly output JT files. Femap Version 9.1 also supports Nastran spot weld elements, and it offers strengthened NX Nastran integration with a new linear surface–to-surface contact capability.

The first user shipments of Femap Version 9.1 are planned for the end of 2005. For more information on Fempa Version 9.1, visit click here.

To read a review of Femap 9.0, click here