Product category:
FEA and structural analysis software
News Release from: Noran Engineering | Subject: NEiNastran V8.4
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 12 April 2005
Upgrade for analysis and simulation
Enhancements in the latest version of NEiNastran will provide significant benefits to engineers in the design, analysis and simulation phases of product development.
Noran Engineering has released NEiNastran V8.4 for Linux and Windows The newly developed version represents a major upgrade containing numerous technical enhancements that will provide significant benefits to engineers in the design, analysis and simulation phases of product development
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 26 May 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
Related stories
Novel enhancements for finite element analysis
Noran Engineering has released V8.3 of its advanced NE/Nastran FEA (finite element analysis) software.
New design analysis for SolidWorks users
NEiWorks is a novel CAD based analytical solution for SolidWorks, scheduled for release late Q4 2004.
NEiNastran V8.4 contains over 70 customer driven enhancements.
The major solver features include: support for huge models of over 7 million degrees of freedom in Windows XP; enhanced nonlinear and dynamic solutions with 2-10x faster performance; a more accurate and robust quad shell element; automated cyclic symmetric boundary conditions; a faster Lanczos Eigensolver; Craig-Bampton reduction for substructuring and superelement generation; modal assurance criteria (MAC); modal cross orthogonality (MXO) plots; and new productivity tools for aerospace, maritime and automotive customers.
NEi's industry unique editor has also been further enhanced with full postprocessing capability amplifying its value to experienced analysts.
Further reading
Finite element analysis is made for SolidWorks
NEiWorks not only provides all of NEiNastran's comprehensive analysis capabilities to SolidWorks users, but also allows sharing of data across the full community of other Nastran users.
SolidWorks analysis tool hits the streets
Noran Engineering has begun shipping NEiWorks, its novel embedded Nastran finite element analysis (FEA) tool for SolidWorks.
Improvements include a new graphics kernel, enhanced post processing utilities and global settings which further leverage NEiNastran functionality.
As an example, automatic x-y plotting of modal effective mass, 3D x-y-z modal animation and graphs of analysis correlation matrices can all be easily displayed in a visual Windows format that powerfully aids complex analysis and problem solving.
Upgrades to the NEiNastran Modeler V8.4 (FEMAP V9) make it a flexible, streamlined Windows user interface based on the latest Microsoft technology providing state-of-the-art CAE capabilities to customers of major CAD systems, such as Catia, Pro/Engineer, AutoDesk, SolidWorks and Solid Edge.
The latest upgrade raises the level of user friendliness and promotes productivity.
New navigation techniques, access commands and functionality have streamlined geometry preparation, finite element modelling, analysis and postprocessing routines significantly.
Dave Weinberg, CEO of Noran Engineering, commented on the release: "Our customers design products that are known for innovation, quality and performance".
"They include companies such as Scaled Composites, Minardi Formula 1 and Cessna Aircraft".
"The V8.4 upgrade gives them the analysis and simulation capabilities they need to maintain their competitive position in their respective industries and the global market".
Tony Abbey, Technical Manager, offered: "We invite all long time Nastran FEA users to try out V8.4 to get an immediate appreciation for the advantages inherent in NEiNastran in performance, ease of use and value".
• Noran Engineering: contact details and other news
• Email this article to a colleague
• Register for the free Engineeringtalk email newsletter
• Engineeringtalk Home Page
Search the Pro-Talk network of sites
