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How to drive NX expressions from a spreadsheet

Tips and tricks for easily updating your FEM using NX expressions Discover a quick and painless way to update your finite element model (FEM). With NX expressions, you can define all your required parameters in one spreadsheet, and then update the FEM with a single...

Accommodating 3rd Party CAD Design Changes without Simulation Model Re-Work

Demo Video Associative 3rd Party CAD Geometry A common limitation when accessing CAD data from a CAE tool is the inability to support design changes with automated updates of the idealized CAE geometry, mesh, loads, and constraints. The idealized CAE geometry must be...

Mapping Polygon Faces to CAD Faces within a NXOpen framework

Quick Overview This Tips & Trick shows how to map Polygon Faces (i.e., CAE faces) to CAD Faces. Given a CAD Face in the Modeling application, what is its corresponding CAE Face in the Advanced Simulation application ? Core content How to find the corresponding CAE...

Margin of Safety Calculation with Femap

Quick Overview This post-processing Tip & Trick will show how to calculate the stress margins of safety of a structure under a static pressure load, and then how to plot the margins and locate the critical areas of the part. This example, created in Femap 11.2,...