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MD Nastran provides multidisciplinary simulations.

MD Nastran from MSC.Software Corp. enables you to transition from simulating how your design will perform to how your product will perform. MD Nastran provides simultaneous multidisciplinary system-level simulations that accurately represent real-life scenarios,  obviating overreliance upon single-point simulation tools and physical prototypes.

MD Nastran combines best-in-class platforms—including MSC.Nastran,  MARC, Dytran, and LS-DYNA—into a single fully integrated enterprise-class simulation solution optimized for multidisciplinary analysis. With MD Nastran you can perform linear, implicit nonlinear, and explicit nonlinear analyses all within the same simulation platform using a single common data model instead of the multiple models for uncoupled single-point analysis tools.

MD Nastran accounts for interactions across discipline domains, enabling accurate modeling of real-life scenarios. Further, MD Nastran enables more design iterations through its support of true HPC 64-bit (ILP) and SMP/DMP (shared memory parallel/distributed memory parallel) support for large/complex model management and optimization. The 64-bit port of MD Nastran can handle large and the continuously growing models of assemblies with millions of degrees of freedom.

MD Nastran includes some 16 primary  areas of functionality, ranging from aeroelasticity to buckling to linear static, heat transfer, and implicit nonlinear. More than a dozen complementary modules let you extend the system for your enterprise’s unique areas of interest. Among these complementary modules are interior and exterior acoustics, explicit nonlinear (SOL 700), Krylov Solver, and rotor dynamics.

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MagNet Enables Field Solver for 2D Magnetostatics

Infolytica offers free download of trial edition with full functionality.

MagNet Trial Edition from Infolytica is fully functional and contains all of the same features as a full edition of MagNet’s magnetostatic 2D package.

Key features of this free download include an easy-to-use Windows GUI; unlimited magnetostatic 2D analysis;  all 2D mesh adaptation tools; all 2D boundary conditions; scripting capability; an extensive documentation package bundled with the download;  and DXF File Import.

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Plastics Insight 6.0 Adds Simulation Speed, Accuracy,  and Capacity

Moldflow announces new release of its widely used plastics design analysis software.

Moldflow Corporation announced release 6.0 of Moldflow Plastics Insight (MPI). MPI 6.0 was designed to deliver new technologies and key enhancements to help users work more efficiently, cut solution time, and interact better with CAD, structural analysis, and other Moldflow applications. It also should help users better understand and communicate analysis results.

Two new technologies in MPI 6.0 amount to breakthroughs for 3D filling and warpage applications. The new coupled 3D Flow solver is said to be up to eight times faster and renders more accurate temperature and shear heating calculations than before. There are new capabilities to predict air traps and simulate gas penetration in 1D beam elements, and a unique capability to simulate jetting phenomena. Similarly, new 3D Warp solver technology delivers results up to 35 times faster.

Other key features of MPI 6.0 include a more efficient, panel-based user interface: A reorganized display reduces screen clutter and allows more efficient workflow for most tasks with a new Tools panel and Toolbox,  consolidated Project and Study Tasks panel, and single log window for most textual outputs.

There’s also improved product integration: Export Part/Runner/Cooling model to CAD via IGES format, improved interfaces to ABAQUS and ANSYS, a new interface to LS-DYNA, plus new capabilities to exchange design-through-manufacturing data between Moldflow’s Manufacturing Solutions and Design Analysis Solutions products. The improved integration between MPI and industry standard structural integration programs means designers of high-performance plastic applications can accurately predict how processing will affect the performance of their molded plastic parts.

MPI 6.0 also includes streamlined diagnostic and communication tools. Users can systematically validate mesh quality with directed diagnostics navigation; generate reports in Microsoft Word or PowerPoint formats, in addition to HTML format; and share information with a distributed team by exporting Moldflow results files and creating comparison criteria files for viewing in the Moldflow Communicator utility.

The release also enables more informative result displays. You can isolate warpage due to unbalanced cooling, non-uniform shrinkage and fiber orientation in 3D Warp, view mold internal temperature distributions in 3D Cool, and see the plastic re-melt zone in 3D Overmolding.

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