• Weight, center of gravity and mass moment of inertia

MODELING InCAD technology for direct CAD/CAE data exchange with Alibre Design, Autodesk Inventor, CADKEY, KeyCreator, Mechanical Desktop, Pro/ENGINEER, Solid Edge and SolidWorks Full associativity with each design change for Alibre Design, Autodesk Inventor, Pro/ENGINEER, Solid Edge and SolidWorks CAD support for Rhinoceros CAD support for 3-D solid models in ACIS, IGES, STEP and STL file formats CAD support for 2-D and 3-D wireframe geometry in CDL, DXF and IGES file formats Ability to create a CAD Transfer Utility installation package to provide direct data exchange even when ALGOR and the CAD package (Alibre Design, Autodesk Inventor, CADKEY, KeyCreator, Mechanical Desktop, Pro/ENGINEER, Solid Edge or SolidWorks) reside on separate computers Ability to merge parts from any CAD source into a single FEA model
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Capability to open CAD models in ALGOR even if the CAD package (Alibre Design, Autodesk Inventor, CADKEY, KeyCreator, Mechanical Desktop, Pro/ENGINEER, Rhinoceros, Solid Edge or SolidWorks) is not open A user-controlled feature suppression tool with the option to suppress details either manually or based on feature size Part names from a CAD solid model captured in the FEA model Part colors from a CAD solid model captured in the FEA model Automatically selects the unit system based on the unit of length of the CAD solid model Superdraw 2- and 3-D sketching tools including capabilities to draw points, lines, rectangles, arcs, circles, splines and tangent lines and modify sketch objects with commands including copy, divide, fillet, intersect, rotate, mirror, move, parallel, trim/extend and delete Complex surface modeling using NURBS, polylines and b-splines Joint Creation Utility for automatically creating pin and ball joints based on either two specified endpoints or a mid-point Capability to combine all element types available for a given analysis type in a single model Capability to define loads and constraints relative to a local coordinate system Provides direct access to AISC section property data for use with beam elements Capability to import FEA models that are stored in ABAQUS, ANSYS, FEMAP, NASTRAN, PATRAN or SDRC file formats

MESHING

• 2- and 3-D parametric, structured meshing options for 3-point triangular, 4-point rectangular, 8-point 3-D, between two objects and 4-object 3-D meshing
• Automatic, unstructured 2-D meshing
• Automatic, unstructured 3-D quadrilateral or triangular surface mesh generation and refinement
• Automatic, intelligent, feature-based mesh refinement and point-and-click definition of areas where a finer mesh is desired
• A midplane mesh engine for reducing thin, solid features in a CAD model to plate/shell elements with automatic handling of parts, assemblies, multi-thickness regions and mixed element type models
• Automatic, hex-dominant hybrid solid meshing to produce higher quality elements on the first pass and more accurate results
• One-step assembly meshing

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RESULTS EVALUATION

• Integrated environment for model visualization and results evaluation
• 3-D dynamic viewing options and rich colors provided by OpenGL-based displays
• Material and result rendering for model and analysis visualization
• Cross-sectional viewing options
• Dynamic clipping planes for slicing models
• Capability to display parts as transparent (translucent)
• Multiple methods for selecting parts or elements in order to hide areas of the model
• Result contours of:

  Displacement Strain Strain energy density Factor of safety Fluid flow velocity Fluid flow vorticity Particle tracking of fluid flow Steady-state flow of electric current Vector plots of fluid flow velocity Static and time-dependent heat flux Reaction force resulting from the flow of fluids Static and time-dependent temperature distribution

  Stress Plastic strain Reaction force Vector plots of principal stress directions Fluid flow pressure Fluid flow streamlines Voltage distribution Current flow lines and vector plots Force flow lines Static and time-dependent heat flow Stress tensor resulting from the flow of fluids Maximum principal and minimum principal stress resulting from the flow of fluids

• Annotations to highlight the location of minimum and maximum results
• Capability to define result probes at desired locations
• Annotation of graph values
• Capability to display or graph results in an arbitrary orientation using a local coordinate system
• Capability to simultaneously view varying result types through multiple view windows
• Capability to dynamically monitor the distance between parts or surfaces involved in surface-to-surface contact
• Mode shape plots with automatic natural frequency annotation
• Shear and bending moment diagrams
• Text output of weight, volume, center of gravity, mass moment of inertia and products of inertia
• Precision contouring for accuracy assessment
• Stress linearization utility for use with a linear static stress analysis on thin-walled structures
• Capability to combine the results of multiple linear static stress analyses
• Capability to combine the results of linear static stress and linear dynamic analyses
• Capability to combine the results of multiple electrostatic analyses
• Automatic calculation of heat flow through a selected face/edge of a part
• Automatic calculation of current through a selected face/edge of a part
• Built-in, virtual instrumentation through Monitor for result graphs
• Capability to graph the magnitude; first, second and third derivative; and integral of time-dependent results
• Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) display
• Automatic display of units in the results legend
• Uses TrueType fonts for legend and annotations
• Dynamic controls for positioning the results legend, annotations and background images
• Pre-defined and user-defined color palettes for result contours
• Slider to dynamically control the scale and display of the displaced model
• Capability to display the undisplaced model using transparency
• Slider for controlling the display of elements based on a lower or upper result limit
• Capability to individually control the color, mesh and display of results for each part
• Realistic visualization of beam elements
• Realistic visualization of plate elements
• Point-and-click result inquiry options
• Inquire mode enables results from selected objects or load and constraint data to be displayed and available for copy and paste operations to other applications
• Result text listing
• Support for exporting results to common Windows applications
• Capability to save all settings for a specific presentation and view that same display at any time or use those settings with a different model

• VRML utility to generate 3-D, web-based models
• Output result contours and graphs as BMP, JPG, TIF, PNG, PCX and TGA formats
• Integrated animation creation and display tools
• Automatic image generation of each result presentation for inclusion in reports
• Report Wizard and environment for automatic HTML generation and display

USER INTERFACE

• Windows-native interface with tree views, multiple views and docking toolbars
• Right-click application, modification and deletion of loads, constraints and FEA properties
• Shortcut keyboard and mouse controls for dynamic viewing options
• Capability to input equations into data input screens
• Built-in data checking for reasonable input
• Multiple undo and redo capability for Superdraw sketching, modeling and meshing
• Load and constraint set capabilities for managing different design scenarios
• Drag and drop of loads and constraints
• Material Library Manager includes a library featuring materials from MatWeb and provides the capability to import, create and manage customized libraries
• Capability to exchange material data with third-party material libraries through XML
• Provides full search capabilities to find and apply standard section property data
• Right-click, context-sensitive help
• Support for standard and custom unit systems
• Capability to specify graphs using mathematical expressions
• Control over all graph labels and axis indicators
• Pre-defined and user-defined graph display styles
• Data management utility for archiving models

AUTOMATION

• API for reading ALGOR results and using the automatic 3-D meshing tools
• Published, centralized file format
• Built-in script and macro tools
• Add-In Manager provides ability for third-party plug-ins that offer extended software functionality
• Support for plug-and-play analysis add-ons
• Capability to define a user-defined result type
• EAGLE, a programming language designed to assist in performing repetitive tasks, conducting parametric or variational FEA studies, optimizing designs and performing FEA and MES analyses which require multiphysics

CONFIGURATION

• Support for LAN and WAN networked license sharing; enterprise-wide and remote-use licensing; and single, node-locked licensing
• Support for redundant servers