what’s new femap 11.1.1 / 11.1.2

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What’s New Femap 11.1.1 / 11.1.2

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Femap 11.1.1Maintenance Release

• Error fixes• Some minor new functionality



Femap 11.1.1Performance Graphics Support

• Display of material and element directions on planar elements now supported when performance graphics operations are enabled



Femap 11.1.1Rigid 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



Femap 11.1.1Rigid Body Rotation – Coordinate System

Modify / Rotate By / Coordinate System



Femap 11.1.1Nastran 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.



Femap 11.1.1Nastran 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



Femap 11.1.1Geometry

• 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



Femap 11.1.1Geometry

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



Femap 11.1.1Modify 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



Femap 11.1.1Preprocessing: 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:



Femap 11.1.1Preprocessing: Model / Load/ From Free Body

Free body loads copied into local model with RBE3 elements:



Femap 11.1.1Beam 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



Femap 11.1.1Application 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 11.1.1 in the online help for full details



Femap 11.1.2Maintenance Release

• Principally error fixes• Some minor new functionality• NX Nastran 9.1 included



Femap 11.1.2Composite Layups

Layup representation display includes:• Layup title• Number of plies• Total thickness



Femap 11.1.2Performance Graphics Support

• Trace Deformation Style now supported when performance graphics operations are enabled



Femap 11.1.2Element 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



Femap 11.1.2Geometry 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

what’s new femap 11.1.1 / 11.1.2

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