Siemens has released Femap version 11.3 as of early this week. If you are a current customer, head to the usual location for the download: http://download.industrysoftware.automation.siemens.com (opens in new window). A FREE webinar from the author of Learning Femap is available here. Here is a reprint of the official bulletin. Dear…
Sometimes as a programmer, you want to know the minimum set of instructions/ commands needed to enable some functionality. Well I’ve gone ahead and assembled that for saving custom output data to your Femap model. Here’s a snippet of code that will place custom data into your model. Note that…
Just FYI, there is the forum resource available to those with questions regarding Femap. Normally such questions can be submitted to your reseller (like Structures.Aero), but for those either using an educational grant license or who want to get a response direct from Siemens employees can post here: The forum…
The author of Learning Femap presented at the 2015 Femap Symposium at the Udvar-Hazy Center (Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum) near Washington DC. You can find the presentation located here on the Siemens PLM Software Femap page.
Working with ACCEL1 cards? Getting NX Nastran fatal SYSTEM FATAL MESSAGE 3094 (SSGSLT)? Femap recently came out with support with ACCEL1 cards. This started with v11.2. Nastran ACCEL1 cards are great for applying localized nodal acceleration as a boundary condition. Alternatively, GRAV cards (body acceleration) can be used, but they have a…
In the recommended hardware section of Learning Femap, I recommend the use of workstation graphics cards such as the AMD Firepro or Nvidia Quadro lines. You may have also seen recommendations such as these: https://community.plm.automation.siemens.com/t5/Femap-Blog/Which-Graphics-Card-Should-I-Buy/ba-p/24107 I can no longer recommend using certain AMD Firepro cards with Femap. There is a unresolved…
Yes! The latest version of Femap works great on Windows 10. As far as I know, there isn’t much sensitivity of Femap to the version of Windows.
The Freebody tool in Femap enables the viewing of internal loads in a finite element model. This is convenient when trying to capture the load as it passes through a part or assembly. Freebodies will show either forces and/ or moments. For solids, you can only view forces in the Tx/Ty/Tz…
I encountered a Nastran fatal recently when running a solid breakout model. A Nastran “fatal” is an error message that is prompted by some issue that prevents a solution from being completed. The potential causes are numerous. There are no comprehensive guides to understanding each one (I’m personally waiting for…
Building off the first update to Femap v11.2, v11.2.2 include a couple of minor fixes and updates. It is highly recommended that all v11.2 and v11.2.1 users switch to v11.2.2. You do not need to change your license file or dongle codes for this update. Details of the contents of this…