{"id":1886,"date":"2011-10-05T12:30:53","date_gmt":"2011-10-05T19:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Siemens-PLM-Corporate-Blog\/Announcing-Femap-Version-10-3\/ba-p\/334772"},"modified":"2026-03-26T11:13:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T15:13:30","slug":"announcing-femap-version-10-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/announcing-femap-version-10-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing Femap Version 10.3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>Today we announced that <A href=\"http:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/en_us\/products\/velocity\/femap\/femap-10.3.shtml\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Femap 10.3<\/A>, the latest version of Femap <A href=\"http:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/en_us\/plm\/definition\/cae.shtml\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">CAE software<\/A>, has been released to manufacturing.<BR \/><BR \/>Femap 10.3 brings easier model preparation, extended analysis support, and more&nbsp;in-depth postprocessing functionality \u2013 find out more\u2026<BR \/><BR \/><\/P><DIV style=\"background-color: #F9F9F9;border: 1px solid #CCCCCC;padding: 3px;font: 11px\/1.4em Arial, sans-serif;margin: 0.5em 0pt 0.5em 0.8em;width:360px;\"><A rel=\"attachment wp-att-7217 nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.industrysoftware.automation.siemens.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/05\/announcing-femap-version-10-3\/geomprepspline_wb_04\/\"><IMG class=\"size-full wp-image-7217\" src=\"http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/legacyfs\/online\/wordpress\/images\/2011\/10\/GeomPrepSpline_wb_04.jpg\" alt=\"Femap automatic geometry preparation\" width=\"360\" height=\"205\" \/><\/A><DIV style=\"text-align:center;\">Femap automatic geometry preparation<\/DIV> <\/DIV><BR \/><P class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt\"><SPAN style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\"><!--more--><\/SPAN><\/P><BR \/><P class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt\"><SPAN style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">The highlights:<\/SPAN><\/P><BR \/><BR \/><UL><BR \/>\t<LI><SPAN>There\u2019s a new automatic solid geometry preparation capability that cleans up the model and removes unnecessary detail prior to meshing<\/SPAN><\/LI><BR \/><\/UL><BR \/><SPAN><IFRAME width=\"425\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/9-yFTOh4Kfs\"><\/IFRAME><BR \/><UL><BR \/>\t<LI>User interface support has been extended to cover NX Nastran aeroelastic preprocessing for statics and flutter analyses<\/LI><BR \/><\/UL><BR \/><IFRAME width=\"425\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/uOTuw4ESSOA\"><\/IFRAME><IMG src=\"http:\/\/blog.industrysoftware.automation.siemens.com\/wp-includes\/js\/tinymce\/plugins\/wordpress\/img\/trans.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><BR \/><UL><BR \/>\t<LI>A new Free Body tool extension to the Postprocessing Toolbox allows easy creation of free body diagrams and investigation of interface loads<\/LI><BR \/><\/UL><BR \/><IFRAME width=\"425\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/EmcGOS94DC4\"><\/IFRAME><IMG src=\"http:\/\/blog.industrysoftware.automation.siemens.com\/wp-includes\/js\/tinymce\/plugins\/wordpress\/img\/trans.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><BR \/><UL><BR \/>\t<LI>NX Nastran 8 support including new plane stress\/strain elements in linear solutions with 2D edge traction loading<\/LI><BR \/>\t<LI><SPAN><SPAN><SPAN>&nbsp;<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN>Several customer driven updates, including the ability to embed multiple solids at once, set view alignment by selected surface\u2026 and much more<\/LI><BR \/><\/UL><BR \/><IFRAME width=\"425\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/eYYnJhQyUKw\"><\/IFRAME><BR \/><P class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt\">You can find out more about this release in the <A href=\"http:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/en_us\/Images\/Siemens-PLM-Femap-Version-10-3-fs_tcm1023-141427.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><SPAN style=\"color: #0000ff\">Femap 10.3 Fact Sheet<\/SPAN><\/A>, and on the <A href=\"http:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/en_us\/products\/velocity\/femap\/femap-10.3.shtml\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Femap 10.3 website<\/A>.<\/P><BR \/><P class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt\">Alastair<\/P><BR \/>&nbsp;<BR \/><BR \/><\/SPAN><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we announced that Femap 10.3, the latest version of Femap CAE software, has been released to manufacturing.    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