SimOffice Benefits

Powerful, Yet Easy-to-Use Design Analysis and Validation
SimOffice provides comprehensive analysis capabilities to evaluate stress, dynamics, and thermal response for a variety of products, from simple to complex. Built on Microsoft Windows and Microsoft .NET enabled, SimOffice is the first CAE environment certified ” Works with Vista”. SimOffice features an easy-to-use modeling environment with an integrated, multidiscipline solver supporting the needs of design engineers, casual users, and expert analysts. SimOffice is also an enterprise scalable solution, leveraging the industry standard MD Nastran finite element solver, Microsoft collaboration capabilities, and integrated connectivity to MSC Software's SimEnterprise solutions for simulation data management and knowledge reuse.

SimOffice includes the following core capabilities:

• Out-of-the box, all-in-one  CAE Solution incorporating:
  • CAD Interface
  • Geometry  and Finite Element Modeling
  • Job Submission and analysis
  • Results analysis and reporting
  • Automation and integration
  • State-of-the-art, Windows-native modeling environment

• Embedded MD Nastran solver technology

• CAD Neutral – supporting most of industries leading CAD formats and interchange formats
• Upward compatibility to MSC Engineering and Enterprise products
• Runs PATRAN session files and Patran Command Level (PCL) scripts
• Seamless integration with Microsoft productivity and collaboration solutions
• High performance compute capability for larger analyses

Intuitive Modeling Environment for the Design Engineer
SimOffice enables everyone from the casual user to the expert analyst to validate product designs - speeding up the design cycle, reducing the need for expensive prototypes, and improving product quality. A Windows-native, Office 2007 modeled,  intuitive user interface makes it simple to mesh CAD-native geometry, apply loads and boundary conditions, run analyses, and evaluate the results of product simulations under real-world operating conditions. Built-in connectivity to productivity tools such as MS Excel, enables effortless linking of spreadsheet-based information tables, equations, plots, and graphs.

Harnessing the Power of MD Nastran
SimOffice is powered by MD Nastran – based on the most widely-used finite element solver in the world - to deliver robust and reliable analysis capabilities for stress, vibration, and other performance aspects of proposed designs. Using SimOffice, engineers can quickly and easily conduct analyses including:

• Out-of-the box, all-in-one  CAE Solution incorporating:
• Linear and non-linear static, including contacts
• Linear buckling
• Normal modes
• Steady-state heat transfer
• Dynamic response
• Transient

While most simulations can be performed on the engineer's desktop computer, SimOffice's built-in compatibility with MSC Software SimEnterprise solutions also allows large, compute-intensive simulations to be run using MD Nastran on high performance servers.

	Core Features: CAD Neutral, supporting import of: Unigraphics Catia V4 and V5 Pro/Engineer Autodesk Parsolids STEP ACIS IGES FEMAP Geometry Modeling to meet Finite Element modeling needs: Create, modify and delete geometric entities including: Points Curves Surfaces Solids Coordinate systems Clean and prepare geometry for meshing Comprehensive Finite Element Modeling: Create, manage and apply materials and properties: Standard materials database included Non-linear material models including elasto-plastic, rubber, and composites Isotropic, 2D and 3D isotropic materials Composite with laminate construction Beam section property creation and standard database Create, manage and apply loads and boundary conditions: Concentrated, total, and pressure loads Thermal loads Structural constraints Deformable and rigid contacts Work with both finite element and geometric entities Manage user defined materials and loads databases using Microsoft Excel Automatic and manual meshing, with mesh quality assessment: Solids Surfaces (shells) Curves Supports linear and higher order elements: 4 node and 8 node (QUAD) shells 3 node and 6 node triangular (TRIA) shells 8 node and 20 node hexahedral (HEX) solids) 4 node and 10 node tetrahedral (TET) solids) Connection modeling for assemblies Simulation and Post-processing Support: Embedded MD-Nastran solver Submit simulation directly from SimOffice Automatically retrieve results Review and analyze results: Deformations Stresses, strains and contact forces Fringe and Vector plots Graphing of results and export directly to Excel Automation and Integration: Run PATRAN session files and PATRAN Command Language (PCL) script files Macro record and replay using .NET (Visual Basic) scripting Create and run Excel driven design studies based on captured macros