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Simcenter Femap

Score8 out of 10

6 Reviews and Ratings

What is Simcenter Femap?

Simcenter is presented by Siemens as a flexible, open, and scalable portfolio of predictive simulation and test tools, and a key component within the company's Xcelerator portfolio. The simulation suite, includes products acquired from Mentor Graphics, such as the FloTHERM suite, the FloEFD product applications, and FloMaster.

Categories & Use Cases

Media

Bearing Force and Torque on Curve
F - Scalable Open Simulation
Hex to Tet Pyramid Transitions
Preprocessing - Load, Constraint, Region Propagation with Geometry Splitting
Preprocessing - Solid Data Tracking
UI and Visualization
UI and Visualization
Updates to Standard Entity Selection
Updates to Standard Entity Selection

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Simcenter Femap Review

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

All our engineers use Simcenter Femap on a daily basis.We use it for problems ranging from aircraft GFEMs to small coupons used for validation purposes.

Pros

  • Simcenter Femap is well linked with NX Nastran such that the .dat file can be manipulated from within the software
  • The API interface makes it highly automatized

Cons

  • Some versions are prematurely released containing many bugs

Most Important Features

  • API interface
  • NX Nastran interface

Return on Investment

  • Quick turn around time for Analyses

Other Software Used

NX CAD, Teamcenter