• 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
• 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
• Ability to merge parts from any CAD source into a single FEA model
• 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
• Interactive definition of beam cross-section orientation
• Capability to define beam offset locations
• Capability to import FEA models that are stored in ABAQUS, ANSYS, FEMAP, NASTRAN, PATRAN or SDRC file formats
• Support for Tsai-Wu, Maximum Stress or Maximum Strain failure criteria for composites

• 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

• 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 Static and time-dependent heat flow

  Stress Reaction force Vector plots of principal stress directions Static and time-dependent heat flux Static and time-dependent temperature distribution

• 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
• Mode shape plots with automatic natural frequency annotation
• Text output of modal mass participation
• 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
• Automatic calculation of heat flow through a selected face/edge of a part
• Automatic transfer of temperature results to a stress analysis
• Automatic transfer of temperature results to a steady fluid flow analysis
• Automatic transfer of temperature results to an electrostatic analysis
• 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
• 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
• Graphical element orientation display

• 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

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