Feb 18, 2020 · NEi Nastran, or more accurate, NEi Software was acquired in 2014 by Autodesk and NEi Nastran became Autodesk Nastran. Today, as far as I know, you can't buy Autodesk …

May 21, 2015 · Recently our company has transitioned from using NEi Nastran to NX Nastran as our FE solver. In doing so we notice some significant differences in the results for the same …

Jul 7, 2006 · For example, contact analysis in Nastran (of any flavour) was possible using the CGAP element, but this is really limited to a non-sliding contact. To overcome the limitations of …

Mar 3, 2013 · NASTRAN can do, but NEi Nastran does much more. In NEi Nastran the GLUE surface-to-surface contact is also handled by the Solver, which takes care of glue stiffness …

Mar 3, 2009 · With NX NASTRAN the card "PARAM,AUTOMPC,YES" relieves the need to carefully define rigid elements (or MPCs) so as to not have a conflict of the m-sets between …

Jun 27, 2011 · I had a question concerning the DMIG input for NEI NASTRAN. We need to translate the matrices from an NEI NASTRAN file to another system. Does anyone know the …

Feb 6, 2003 · For solid models NEi tends to be faster and in this case it was more like 5 times faster for NEiNastran. For nonlinear NEi seems to be faster but for dynamics MSC was faster …

Jun 22, 2010 · NEi Nastran is very capable as well. Both products are well maintained with a full release every 6-12 months and interim maintenance releases 2-5x a year. NEi Nastran has …

Mar 6, 2003 · If I make a model by Femap and use parabolic elements, NEi/Nastran gives me a warning 'T2004' and it is caused by quad8-elements. If I use the same model and make an …

Oct 15, 2007 · NX Nastran "basic" would be SOL106, probably the weakest of the lot (except for Mechanica), as you pointed out you'd need the advanced non-linear, SOL601, to perform …