Femap10.1 What’s New - Iberisa Nastran Job Queuing Expanded job queuing functionality on local machine from within Femap Multiple jobs Multiple models Status feedback Results are

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Femap v10.1 What’s New

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Femap v10.1

Model Display and Visualization Boundary Condition Set Managers Analysis Manager Modeling/Meshing Enhancement UI Enhancements Database Enhancements Other



Model Display and Visualization

Multi-group display Element display control Interactive – faster and easier to use than Groups and Layers Can be combined with Groups and Layers



Multi-Group Display

Expansion of Groups in Model Info Tree

Interactively combine groups Interactively toggle group visibility

on / off Control visibility of contents of

groups in combination Control model visibility quickly

and easily Add or remove entities Can be combined with all other

visualization options Element, property and material

display as well as Layers



Element and FE Entity Display

Model Info Tree addition Element display control By Type By Shape By Material By Property

Checkbox on / off Right-click Show Selected Only Show Selected Hide Selected Show All Hide All Show elements with no material Show elements with no property



Consolidated Visibility Options

Single Point Access to all Visualization Options Entities Groups Layers Element Shape Element Type Material Property



Boundary Condition Set Managers

New Combination Load Set Multiple Load Sets with Scale

Factors Read and write from NASTRAN

New Combination Constraint Set Combines Standard Constraint

Sets Read and write from NASTRAN

Previously, individual load or constraint sets had to manually merged to combine them in an analysis



Analysis Manager

Consolidation of NASTRAN analysis control in the Analysis Manager Dynamics analysis setup Nonlinear control options and

analysis setupRead of analysis control decks

added from existing NASTRAN Models

Modes, buckling, nonlinear static, nonlinear transient, steady state heat, and transient heat transfer

Case Control – DLOAD, NONLINEAR, TSTEP, TSTEPNL…



NX Nastran Job Queuing

Expanded job queuing functionality on local machine from within Femap Multiple jobs Multiple models Status feedback

Results are automatic loaded into appropriate Femap model files on completion



Graphics Database

Solid geometry facets removed from database during save Model file size significantly

reduced Model load time slightly

increased Model save time reduced

Solid assembly with 2,100 solids



2D Tensor Plot

2D Tensor Plot Forces and stresses

Plate element running loads



Graphics Display

Display of Body Loads Acceleration (Gravity) Rotational Velocity Rotational Acceleration

Display by axes or on the model



Composite Global Ply

Femap global ply Equivalent to NASTRAN PCOMPG Data managed by Femap, solver

definitions not required Define global plies for regular

PCOMP composite definitions Preprocessing Define and maintain global plies Visualize extent of global ply across

laminates Postprocessing Visualize results for global plies

across the structure



Loads and Constraints

Load and constraint position or location can be updated and changed Femap either deletes or creates new

loads/constraints on the updated entity list LOAD, SPCADD and MPCADD combined Load

and constraint sets renamed to conform to Nastran convention

New torque load on surfaces Support for through thickness gradient for plate

elemental temperature loads (Nastran) New Total Load option on multiple geometries Nodal forces, moments on curves and surfaces, surface torque

User preferences to allow selection of the old Expand Load, Constraint and Contact - new options are now default

Updated Expand Load to handle nodal loads on curves when only solid elements are connected



User Interface

View Tabs can now be relocated the to four sides of the window FEMAP.INI and PATH added to Help About listing Guard bytes dded around preferences to safeguard the FEMAP.INI file

from being overwritten if memory becomes totally corrupted Icons added for Pick Normal, Query and Front on the standard right-

click context menu New dialog box resizing capability added that allows general resizing

of all multi-column, multi-row controls Option to remove all File References with single button added Underlined characters on Tools menu for "Data Surface Editor",

"Programming", "Other Windows" and "Convert Units" commands modified



User Interface

Create Element dialog for rigid/interpolation elements updated to contain a multi-select list allowing multiple nodes to be highlighted and deleted at once

Update capability added for Interpolation elements to refresh the DOF and Factors for selected nodes

Element Summary information added to Model Info Tree – Type and Shape with counts

Clicking now supported on Next/Prev icons to auto-scroll in the tree Copy to Clipboard and Save of Data Table speeded up Copy 50,000 rows of nodes to clipboard was 23+ minutes previously,

now 10 seconds Model Info tree reloading improved so that expansion of branches

remains the same



API Additions

Added AddNodesOnGeometry Added Coordinate Picking to the Set object - AddCoordinate,

AddAroundPoint, AddAroundVector, AddAroundPlane Added CR-LF (instead of just LF) to automatic text in WinWrap Basic

Editor for WinWrap v9.2 Added DefineReal method Added feSolidRemoveFace to the API Added feSurfaceRemoveHole Added GetMultiGroupList, SetMultiGroupList, ClearMultiGroupList Added IsBoundingSolidRegion Updated Tangents and other methods in Surface API object to return

FE_NOT_AVAILABLE if you try them on a multisurface boundary. Obsoleted the feModifySurfaceDivisions API method and implemented

feModifySolidFacetting Added feMeshSurface2 (obsoleted feMeshSurface) method, also

added Mesh() and ResetMeshAttr() to the surface object Added gradient property to the Elemental Temperature object Removed "CaseID" property on the Analysis Set manager object. The

master case should always be ID=0, you should not be able to set it.



Geometry Interfaces

Color attributes added to solid faces when exporting geometry Color & transparency for Parasolid; color for ACIS IGES and STEP

Solid Edge Entity Map Attribute added Support for (at least skipping) Group Codes added in later versions of

AutoCAD - up to 2009 – specific aborts for 421 and 424 fixed Enhanced split periodic faces to work around problem in Parasolid not

being able to find the location on a surface using older KI code. All geometry transforms rewritten using Parasolid PK functions, and

leaking transform entities cleaned up Updates to Standard SPLM CAD Translators as of 6/1/2009

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Femap10.1 What’s New - Iberisa Nastran Job Queuing Expanded job queuing functionality on local machine from within Femap Multiple jobs Multiple models Status feedback Results are