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Page 1 of 7 Technical Seminar: Femap and NX Nastran Essentials: Starting Fresh Topics: Navigating the Femap Interface: Panes, Blanking, Visibility, etc. Workflow for Introductory Analyses: Solid Plate and Beam Workflow for Introductory Analyses: Solid, Plate and Beam Summary of Useful Tips and Tricks A Brief Q&A Period October 2010

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Technical Seminar:  Femap and NX Nastran Essentials: Starting Fresh

Topics:Navigating the Femap Interface: Panes, Blanking, Visibility, etc.Workflow for Introductory Analyses: Solid Plate and BeamWorkflow for Introductory Analyses: Solid, Plate and BeamSummary of Useful Tips and Tricks

A Brief Q&A Period

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Technical Seminar:  Femap and NX Nastran EssentialsGetting Started with Femap

I. A Walk‐About the interface: a.)  Preferencesb.)  Tool bars and Panesb ) oo ba s a d a es

II. How Femap is graphically organized: a.) Visibility; Blanking; Groups; View Options) y; g; p ; pb.)  Saving these options for future use

III. Customization of Interface

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Technical Seminar:  Femap and NX Nastran EssentialsWorkflow for Simple FEA of Solid Geometry:  Piece Part

I. FEA Made EasyII. Workflow

(a) Material(a)  Material(b)  Element(c)  Mesh Sizing(d)  Mesh(e)  Loads(f)  Constraints

III. Analysis(a) Iterative Solver

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(a) Iterative Solver

IV.   Post Processing

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Technical Seminar:  Femap and NX Nastran EssentialsWorkflow for Simple FEA of Plate Geometry:  Piece Part

I. FEA Made EasyII. Workflow

(a) Geometry Preparation(b)  Material(c)  Element(d)  Mesh Sizing (default)(e) Mesh(e)  Mesh(f)  Loads (25 lbf /pad)(g)  Constraints

III. Analysis

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y(a) Default the Whole Way

IV. Post Processing(a) Plates have top and bottom surfaces(a)  Plates have top and bottom surfaces

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Technical Seminar:  Femap and NX Nastran EssentialsWorkflow for Simple FEA of Beam Geometry:  Piece Part

I. FEA Made EasyII. Workflow

(a) Geometry Preparation (loads / API)(b)  Material (Steel)(c)  Element (2x2x0.083)(d)  Mesh Sizing (4”)(e) Mesh (Beam Orientation / Merge)(e)  Mesh (Beam Orientation / Merge)(f)  Loads (500 lbf Corners & Midpoint w/ 0.2 g)(g)  Constraints (pinned)

III. Analysis

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y(a) Default the Whole Way

IV. Post Processing(a) Beams use “Beam Diagram”(a)  Beams use  Beam Diagram

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Technical Seminar:  Femap and NX Nastran EssentialsSummary of Useful Tips and Tricks

These are my pick of the pack:Ctrl‐Z to bring up the Locate Dialog Box while you are in another Dialog BoxCt l D t k tCtrl‐D to make measurementsThe PCGLSS Iterative SolverThe NX Nastran 64‐Bit Sparse Matrix Solver for really big stuff.Using the Save and Load View Option to customize your View WindowFemap’s API LanguageNX Nastran param,bailout,‐1Femap’s and NX Nastan Help Documentation

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Ctrl‐Z to bring up the Locate Dialog Box while you are in another Dialog Box

This is quite the little Femap secret, but it is in the manual.  See the Femap User Manual Section 4.2.4:

You may be asking yourself how I would use this but think of all thethis, but think of all the times you have used the Geometry / Solid / Slice tool and needed to located a dimension!  Or 

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wanted to snap to a point (Ctrl+P) within another box…