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Why Femap?

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10 Reasons to Choose Femap from NEi Software

Femap is a premier digital prototyping tool because of its extensive capabilities, high level of performance, and long term industry proven reputation in the following key areas of finite element modeling and post processing:

1. CAD Neutral
   Imports all major CAD files with wide functionality for geometry clean up and feature suppression, including I-deas, Solid Edge, NX Unigraphics, SolidWorks, Autodesk, CATIA and Pro/ENGINEER.
2. Solver Independent
   Compatible with a full complement of highly regarded implicit and explicit FEA and CFD solvers including NEi, NX, and MSC Nastran, LS Dyna, Maya TMG-Flow and TMG-Thermal, Abaqus, and ANSYS. Provides solutions to linear and nonlinear structural stress, deformation, modal analysis, thermal, heat transfer, impact, crash, fluid flow, multiphysics, aeroelasticity, optimization, and rotor dynamics engineering problems. Industry proven with an excellent reputation among knowledgeable FE analysts who have experience with a wide variety of CAE vendor software and tools.
3. High quality, sophisticated meshing capabilities
   Full control over the meshing process for all geometry types with the ability to work around deficient geometry. Example 1: Surface meshing API utility allows interactive mesh editing for surface tri meshing prior to solid tet meshing. Example 2: semi automatic hex meshing tools subdivide solid into meshable regions.
   New in V10.3
4. Range of Modeling Functionality - Beams, Shells, Solids, Assemblies, and Composites 
   Beams can be created directly as FE entities or meshed from curve geometry. Section properties calculated and fully displayed to easily identify orientation and offsets. Shells maintain accuracy and keep model size down for thin plate type structures. Mid plane extraction on geometry and shell meshing provides greater accuracy with smaller models than one element through a solid. Simulate assemblies and the interaction between members with easy automatic assembly detection, linear or nonlinear contact with or without friction, or glued contact, spot weld elements, and full access to manual connection definition. Easy contact visualization with selective transparency. Full support for composite materials with easy entry, view, organization, and manipulation of plies.
5. Real World Fidelity through Accurate Choice of Loads and Boundary Conditions
   Apply loads and boundary conditions to geometry and the FE mesh, data mapping onto the structure from other sources, loads represented as functions.
6. Broad Range of Analysis Types and Engineering Disciplines
   In addition to handling basic analysis types like linear statics, modal, buckling, and steady state heat transfer, Femap can support many advanced type solutions and analysis capabilities in various solvers.
• Full Advanced Dynamics Capabilities
  Dynamic analysis is a very important part of product verification. Femap can perform transient response, frequency response, random analysis, response spectra generation and analysis, complex modes, Dynamic Design Analysis Method (DDAM). Plus includes full modeling functionality with mass and damping elements, loading functions, and post processing of results.
• Advanced Nonlinear Capabilities
  Model large deflections, nonlinear material properties, contact, impact or crash with implicit and explicit types of analysis.
• Advanced Thermal Capabilities
  Conduction, convection, and radiation with steady state and transient heat transfer analysis. Thermal couplings and boundary conditions, convection correlation, temperature mapping and duct flow.
• Fluid Flow Capabilities
  Analyze fluid flow as well as fluid cooling effects in thermal analysis and fluid-structure interaction. Fans, vents, flow surfaces and high speed flow.
• Rotor Dynamics Capabilities
  Determine dynamic behavior of parts that rotate at high speeds.
7. Full Complement of Post Processing and Visualization Tools
   Allows complete, in-depth exploration of results including free body diagrams, beam diagrams, data tables, graphs, contour plots, and animations.
8. Customization and automation of simulation tasks
9. Ease of Use
   Windows native with a flexible analysis process. The user is not forced into a strict series of actions. Work through the menu, model information tree or both.
10. Best Price for Functionality

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Media and Awards

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Technical Support

Our customers offer the best reasons for why NEi Software represents the best choice as a Femap provider — our industry-regarded technical support and training. Their testimonials offer numerous examples of how NEi technical support and training plays a valuable role in applying and getting the most out of simulation technology so you can meet your objectives for innovation, quality, reliability, cost, and time savings in your product development process. Whenever you have questions, you can connect directly with our dedicated staff of experienced FE analysts and quickly get reliable, practical answers — an important capability, we believe, in assessing a software vendor’s qualifications.

At NEi Software, technical support is an essential part of providing engineering software. NEi Software pioneered the transition of Finite Element Analysis (FEA) to the desktop in the early 1990’s. Since then NEi has been at the forefront and committed to developing, supporting, mentoring, and providing professional level training in Femap, Nastran, and Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) software for mechanical engineering. NEi leads the CAE community in technical support and demonstrates this commitment with efforts like unique software features such as context sensitive Help and innovative distance e-learning programs. Our in-house technical support team conducts our training classes, provides mentoring services, and consults on FEA projects. Our support of Nastran and Femap is highly regarded in the industry for its responsiveness, quality, and technical proficiency. At NEi Software you do not get transferred to third parties for support questions. Your technical questions are answered directly and quickly by our in-house staff through email, telephone, or web demonstrations. Our customers offer the best endorsement for our support efforts and we invite you to read their testimonials. Any software evaluation you undertake should include an evaluation of the technical support team and the type of interaction you can expect.

Professional Level Technical Support Means:

• In-house, degreed engineers working exclusively in FE analysis
• Responsive and quick turn-around
• Training classes, mentoring and distance learning options
• Industry references and testimonials

Do you have FEA Software that is inadequate or being discontinued?
Do you need to upgrade from Algor? CosmosWorks? Pro/MECHANICA?

Have you reached the limits of functionality with an existing FEA software package and find that you need to do more sophisticated analysis? Femap can take you to the next level and help with assemblies, 3D surface contact, nonlinear, composites, and more. With a wide selection of FEA and CFD solvers, CAD neutral file import, robust meshing capabilities and a host of other advantages, Femap can take you to the next level of simulation. Try it and you'll see why we say Femap is “Real FEA Made Easy”. Ask about our special promotion pricing for users with existing software packages.

Benefits of Upgrading to Femap:

• Better real world fidelity
• Simulate the loads and boundary conditions you want — not what your current analysis tool limits you to
• Enhance your productivity and save time with Femap’s easy to use and up-to-date native Windows environment
• Femap’s superior visualization and results processing tools allow you to see and present your results in a highly professional manner
• Enjoy fast and reliable CAD access and robust geometry import tools
• Receive greater value for your money — Femap includes a wealth of functionality
• Eliminate tedious and onerous tasks with a simulation tool that is fully customizable to suit your analysis processes

Options for Patran? Find out how much easier a pre-post can be.

Are you currently using Patran as your pre and post processor? Are you thinking about what you will use as future long range reliable simulation product? Femap has long history in industries that have traditionally used Patran. Among them are: aerospace, defense, shipbuilding, heavy machinery. Femap has been growing more and more popular and increasing market share in these applications because it has demonstrated professional level capability and a history of development by a software team that has remained constant for many years with a well defined plan. Find out how moving to Femap can help you reduce costs and increase efficiency, without making any significant changes to your design or analysis processes. As Femap is CAD independent and solver neutral, you can keep accessing your current CAD data, run your current solvers — and take advantage of the powerful and easy to use Femap analysis modeling environment.

Benefits of Upgrading to Femap:

• Rest assured that you'll have a robust simulation environment with a stable future
• Keep working within your current design and analysis processes with Femap’s comprehensive CAD and solver access
• Improve productivity and efficiency with Femap’s easy to use and up to date native Windows simulation environment
• Take advantage of Femap’s superior and visualization and results processing tools
• Enjoy fast and reliable CAD access and robust geometry import tools
• Take advantage of the extensive solver support, all main commercial solvers are supported by the base Femap module
• Save money with competitively priced modules and options
• Receive greater value for money — the Femap base offering includes a wealth of functionality

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Videos

New in Femap 10.3: AutoGeometryPrep
New in Femap 10.3: FreeBodyTool
New in Femap 10.3: CustomerEnhancements
Webinar Replay: Reduce Meshing Time with Femap
Webinar Replay: What's New in Femap 10.2