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Unrestricted © Siemens AG 2014 All rights reserved. Page 2Siemens PLM Software Femap Maintenance Release Error fixes Some minor new functionality

Unrestricted © Siemens AG 2014 All rights reserved. Page 3Siemens PLM Software Femap Performance Graphics Support Display of material and element directions on planar elements now supported when performance graphics operations are enabled

Unrestricted © Siemens AG 2014 All rights reserved. Page 4Siemens PLM Software Femap Rigid Body Rotation – Coordinate System Rotation of coordinate systems will now rotate all sub-entities as a rigid body Loads Boundary conditions Degrees of freedom Sub-coordinate systems New Modify / Align / Coordinate System command Move mesh from one coordinate system to another

Unrestricted © Siemens AG 2014 All rights reserved. Page 5Siemens PLM Software Femap Rigid Body Rotation – Coordinate System Modify / Rotate By / Coordinate System

Unrestricted © Siemens AG 2014 All rights reserved. Page 6Siemens PLM Software Femap Nastran Load Set Improvements Dedicated temperature set definition now added to the Nastran analysis set boundary conditions Load set IDs now maintained when bulk data files are cycled in and out Currently supported in SOLs 101, 103, 105, 106 – others to follow Previously you needed to manually add the temperature loads to the Femap Load Combination or one of its referenced sets. Femap would then create a synthetic temperature set making it possible to maintain set IDs.

Unrestricted © Siemens AG 2014 All rights reserved. Page 7Siemens PLM Software Femap Nastran Load Set Improvements Improved SPCD load import with LOAD input entities SPCD loads are read into a synthetic Femap load set and labeled as such Structural loads are read into their respective sets and combined via the Femap LOAD combination The synthetic SPCD set is also added as a referenced set in the Femap LOAD combination LOAD entity ID is in addition to referenced structural load set IDs are maintained

Unrestricted © Siemens AG 2014 All rights reserved. Page 8Siemens PLM Software Femap Geometry Geometry / Copy, Scale, Rotate, and Reflect commands enhanced to properly copy and transform geometric loads with the new geometry Model / Copy, Scale, Rotate, and Reflect commands similarly enhanced to properly work with non-rectangular load coordinate systems Geometry / Copy, Scale, Rotate, and Reflect enhanced to properly copy geometric constraints that either reference DOFs in a specific coordinate system, or that allow sliding along a specified direction

Unrestricted © Siemens AG 2014 All rights reserved. Page 9Siemens PLM Software Femap Geometry Geometry / Solid / Fill Hole command updates Allows you to create a solid from the hole within another solid File / Merge command updates Geometric entities can now be included in merging operations in addition to FEM entities

Unrestricted © Siemens AG 2014 All rights reserved. Page 10Siemens PLM Software Femap Modify Node – Project Along Vector Modify / Project / Point-Node along a vector onto surfaces command modified to better handle large numbers of entities projected onto a large number of surfaces Resulting command execution speedup reduces from hours to minutes

Unrestricted © Siemens AG 2014 All rights reserved. Page 11Siemens PLM Software Femap Preprocessing: Model / Load/ From Free Body Free body loads from one model can now be transferred and included in another model and installed using RBE3 elements Free body loads copied from global model:

Unrestricted © Siemens AG 2014 All rights reserved. Page 12Siemens PLM Software Femap Preprocessing: Model / Load/ From Free Body Free body loads copied into local model with RBE3 elements:

Unrestricted © Siemens AG 2014 All rights reserved. Page 13Siemens PLM Software Femap Beam Postprocessing Publish beam cross section calculator API Expose beam postprocessing engine Recover mesh locations Recover stress values calculated at cross section nodes Allow users to postprocess well beyond standard FEA beam results

Unrestricted © Siemens AG 2014 All rights reserved. Page 14Siemens PLM Software Femap Application Programming Interface Updates Stop API Tool command on the Custom Tools toolbar Stops the currently running API program even when the interface is locked in current API calls Various new and updated API calls Refer to What’s New in version in the online help for full details

Unrestricted © Siemens AG 2014 All rights reserved. Page 15Siemens PLM Software Femap Maintenance Release Principally error fixes Some minor new functionality NX Nastran 9.1 included

Unrestricted © Siemens AG 2014 All rights reserved. Page 16Siemens PLM Software Femap Composite Layups Layup representation display includes: Layup title Number of plies Total thickness

Unrestricted © Siemens AG 2014 All rights reserved. Page 17Siemens PLM Software Femap Performance Graphics Support Trace Deformation Style now supported when performance graphics operations are enabled

Unrestricted © Siemens AG 2014 All rights reserved. Page 18Siemens PLM Software Femap Element Quality Checks - Pyramids Jacobian element quality check updated for pyramid elements: 0.0 (ideal) to 1.0 (poor) 2.0 indicates the element has failed the Jacobian check

Unrestricted © Siemens AG 2014 All rights reserved. Page 19Siemens PLM Software Femap Geometry Measure and Load Expansion Measure Between Geometry command expanded to support basic Femap curves – previously just Solid curves were supported Sheet solid determination methodology updated Load expansion times for large models with many non-manifold surfaces and equation based pressure loads reduced from hours to seconds