New features include:

Getting started

The Getting Started CD is an interactive multimedia tour that guides new users through basic concepts of how to use MSC.visualNastran 4D and enables them to start their own projects. An enhanced interactive Welcome Screen has been added to help new users, and has access to the Getting Started CD, demo file previews, and a tour of new features.

Gear and belt constraint

The gear/coupler constraint models general idealised gears. Spur and bevelled gears can be modelled. Belt constraints will also be implemented in a planar fashion. Multiple gears and belt systems can be coupled for more complex motion.

FLEXIm and campus-wide licence

FLEXlm, the de facto standard, offers a more robust means of licensing the MSC.visualNastran Desktop software over a network and provides campus-wide licensing, including temporary onDemand licensing.

My vNuniverse

Allows one to change and save simulation and display settings, colours, toolbars, unit systems, and materials, all in one easy-to-get-to location, on a per-user basis for true customisation. CAD Environment Emulation - users can now customise their MSC.visualNastran 4D environment to make the toolbars and buttons function as they do in their preferred CAD system, thereby easing the transition.

Heat transfer

The heat transfer in MSC.visualNastran 4D offers the fundamental FEA capabilities for steady state thermal analysis. With this feature, users can include thermal load and boundary conditions such as volumetric heat generation, surface convection, surface radiation, surface heat flux, and prescribed temperature. Users can also provide temperature-dependent film coefficients for convection boundary conditions. Heat transfer boundary conditions can also be controlled by formulas, tables, and time functions.

Smooth contact

Engineers can accurately and quickly simulate one body rolling or sliding on another body, in three dimensions such as in cam and latch designs. Contact models perform significantly faster and with finer resolution

For more information: Estech Design Technologies, 012 991 5570.