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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
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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

Using 3DSync for Geometry Simplification and Edits

September 23, 2013

I usually write for CAD users, so writing for folks who lean more toward the analyst side and who consider CAD to be a secondary skill is a bit new but bear with me. I’m at least still writing about …

By MLombard
4 MIN READ

NX9 Preview – Automatic Morph

September 5, 2013

In NX9, you can use the Automatic Morph command to have NX try to automatically morph an existing mesh to conform to modified CAD geometry. During this process, NX tries…

By JerrySarfati
< 1 MIN READ

Femap Tips & Tricks: Solid Mesh with Beam Elements

August 21, 2013

Structures like reinforced concrete where steel rebar in encased in solid concrete can be represented by 1-D rod or beam elements for the rebar inside solid 3-D tet-elements for the concrete. When se…

By AlRobertson
< 1 MIN READ