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…
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…
Check out this new video the Femap development team at Siemens PLM Software has published. After 30 years they’re still going strong, and this video shows an amazing selection of projects this tool has helped develop.
Both the strength of bonds and laminates are important to understanding the whole story of composite failure in Femap with NX Nastran. This post will focus on using a 2D criterion to predict failure of laminates from element forces. In Femap, a failure theory will need to be chosen. There are…