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Femap Tips and Tricks: Model Info Shortcuts

June 26, 2014

This video shows a couple of shortcuts in the Model Info tree that will allow you to navigate through long lists of properties or materials more easily and manage load cases and boundary conditions. …

By AlRobertson
< 1 MIN READ

Achieve simulation-driven design faster with integrated 1D and 3D simulation

June 13, 2014

Simulation-driven design solves problems many engineers face in the automotive industry today. Vehicle complexity grows exponentially with consumer demand and government regulation for more fuel effi…

By Amy Reyes
2 MIN READ

10 Hidden Femap Features

April 22, 2014

 
10 Hidden FEMAP Features
FEMAP has a rich set of hidden features for finite element modeling, but not all of them are easy to find.  I’ve created a list of some of my favorite feature…

By Teague
4 MIN READ

Femap Tips and Tricks: Automatic Global Ply Creation

April 17, 2014

In the analysis of composite structures, global plies are very useful in helping to postprocess as they present the results data by continuous ply rather than the whole laminate element by element, w…

By AlRobertson
< 1 MIN READ

What to do with that new graphics card in FEMAP?

March 27, 2014

Last month I talked about how to pick out a graphics card for a CAD/CAE program like FEMAP or NX Advanced Simulation.  This month, I want to give a few hints on how to make it work better with F…

By Teague
2 MIN READ

NX CAE Tips & Tricks Webinar – Mixed Element / Hybrid FEM workflows

March 24, 2014

Hi there,
 
Coming up this Thursday, March 27 th at 1pm Eastern / 10am Pacific is the latest in our regular series of NX CAE webinars.
 
This time around we’ll discuss advanced wor…

By Ganesh Sethuraman
< 1 MIN READ

Which Graphics Card Should I Buy?

February 25, 2014

First, it is important to note that consumer video cards are mostly targeted at those running games  often featured on Microsoft’s DirectX API, which runs on the Xbox. In contrast to these,…

By AlRobertson
< 1 MIN READ

Assembly Finite Element Modeling NX CAE tips and tricks webinar – January 23, 2014

January 20, 2014

Rregister fora free webinar on finite element modeling in the context of assemblies on January 23, 2014.
 
Topics:

assembly constraints,
model management,
connections across compo…

By JerrySarfati
< 1 MIN READ

Femap Tips and Tricks: Mesh Splitting

October 15, 2013

Sometimes it’s useful to be able to split an existing mesh and have that split propagate through the model maintaining proper element connectivity. In this video we’ll see how you can achieve that in…

By AlRobertson
< 1 MIN READ