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NEi Works Features and Benefits Highlights

How Far Do You Need to Take Analysis?

NEi Works gives you more than a solution to your most immediate design problems; it offers a continuous path from design validation to high-end analysis. Request the brochure.

• NEi Works is completely scalable and expandable.
• There is no need to learn and adopt a whole new FEA platform as your analysis and simulation needs grow more sophisticated.
• The NEi Nastran platform can connect designers and analysts by sharing Nastran files and allowing the use of a variety of other analysis oriented pre- and post-processors with the NEi Nastran solvers.
• You can start with NEi Works Basic for exploring the viability of design alternatives and concept validation and move to NEi Works Expert if and when the need for powerful, highly focused analyst tools are needed.

Benefits: Continuous scalable path from design validation to high end analysis.

Nastran FEA

Nastran is the most widely used FEA software in the world. It has been proven over several decades and has become the established standard in aerospace, automotive and maritime industries. Nastran has achieved this level of acceptance because of its accuracy, precision, and the fidelity of its analysis results.

Benefits: Precise, proven results you can rely on.

Continuity and Connection Between Design and Analysis

NEi Works is a breakthrough product because it can provide a smooth continuous path from design to analysis and remove the barriers between these functional groups. Designers can explore “what-if” scenarios easily with full associativity of FEA and CAD data and validate concepts. Models can be shared or passed off to analysts for more intensive examination. The Nastran Bulk Data File and option for unbundled solver use provides maximum sharing of data and software resources.

Benefits: Capabilities that grow with needs, scalable for your organization, the right tools for each functional group.

Tailor Your FEA to Fit Your Analysis Needs

NEi Works comes in Basic and Expert versions with choice of solver packages. Basic gives you the main design validation tools at a low cost entry point. Expert provides the power and flexibility to take the analysis and simulation to the most professional levels of fidelity and accuracy with the option of using unbundled solvers with other pre- and post-processors and tools.

Benefits: Low entry cost, pay for what you need.

Element Library

NEi Works has a complement of elements for solid, shells and beams that allow professional modeling of a wide variety of structures. These include composites with plates and shells and surface-to-surface contact with manual or automated recognition of surfaces.

Benefits: Ability to model a variety of structures.

Awards and Media Coverage

  

Feb 2010		Interview with NEi Software CEO, Dave Weinberg by Sanjay Gangal MCADCafe
Feb 2010		Editor's Pick: NEi Works 2.1 Debuts at SolidWorks World by DE Editors Desktop Engineering [PDF]
Jul 2006		FEA Works Inside CAD Machine Design [PDF]
Mar 2006		FEA Material Library Benefits NEi Works Users Garnered the most votes in the December 2005 issue. Desktop Engineering [PDF]
Aug 2005		NEi Works Integrates SolidWorks with Nastran (Swedish) Rit-nytt [PDF]
Jul 2005		NEi Software, Inc. new CAD integrated NEi works has been admitted to the SolidWorks Solution Partner program... Sampe Journal [PDF]

Technical Support

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 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

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