Existing FEA Users

If you are already a user of FEA software, this section is designed specifically with your expertise in mind. Your background and experience in FEA will allow you to fully appreciate the difference in ease-of-use, performance, level of personal technical support, and cost advantage that NEi Nastran offers. Our most successful conversions to NEi Nastran come from engineers who look to maximize their reliability of their results, their time and budget. We will gladly provide references in a similar application to yours. We also encourage you to visit our Testimonials section to see what some of our satisfied customers have to say. Because our enhancement process relies heavily on the input of our customers, you will join the elite group of engineers in our industry who constantly contribute the intuitiveness of our Finite Element Analysis product line. These enhancements have added substantial value and have resulted in new, customized industry specific features.

Like so many of our customers, you will find that NEi Software is committed to help you get the absolute most out of your FEA software from a technical, support, and budget standpoint.

No obligation. Just contact us by phone or send us an email. One of our application engineers will be glad to prove how NEiNastran can solve the technical, support, and budgetary issues you’ll need to make an informed decision.

The NEiNastran Advantage - Five ways to get the most from your FEA software.

If you are presently using another professional level FEA package, here are five improvements NEiNastran will bring to your FEA environment.

1.	Advanced Nonlinear without the High Price. NEi Nastran’s advanced nonlinear analysis has features usually only found in dedicated tools like ABAQUS. More importantly, the set up is very straightforward and extremely robust. We offer true 3D surface contact simulation and analysis without the long learning curve and complicated methodology. This can dramatically help improve your analysis capabilities and productivity. Click on the demo below to see an illustration of this feature and compare to your existing method.

2.	Industry Specific Productivity Features. NEiNastran has special productivity features for different industry segments and applications. See some of the examples below. If you don’t see an element, solution sequence, tool, or enhancement that would fit your application, call us and see how easily it can be incorporated into your FEA environment. Nastran for Aerospace. Specialized nonlinear elements such as tension-only shell elements are very useful in modeling semimonocoque structures where skin panels have a limited compressive load carrying capability. Tension-only cable elements are useful in modeling flight controls and cargo tie downs. Load and boundary condition interpolation allows easy mapping of thermal and CFD output from specialized heat transfer and fluid dynamic models to the structural model for load and boundary condition definition. Extensive composite material support including, 2D orthotropic, 3D orthotropic, general anisotropic, laminate lay-up definitions, and a wide range of failure criteria including the new NASA LaRC02 criteria and sandwich facesheet stability analysis. Nastran for Automotive. Specialized industry-proven element technologies including hybrid quad and hex elements, surface and spot weld elements, and dissimilar mesh interpolation elements. Support for standard manufacturing process effects such as casting induced warpage and residual stress and strain. Nastran for Maritime. Specialized solution sequences that do not require tedious DMAP programming including Design Dynamic Analysis Method (DDAM), integration with Anteon’s Underwater Shock Analysis (USA) program, and compatibility with MAESTRO from Proteus Engineering. Special modal filtering and database restart tools for performing DDAM and dynamic response solutions increase productivity by allowing a modal database to be altered and reused with rerunning an eigenvalue extraction analysis.
3.	Help Designed to Help. Cryptic and obscure error messages can stifle productivity and abruptly stop a project. NEi Nastran’s Cause, Action, Remarks formatted error and warning message help is designed to make it easy to diagnose and correct model errors quickly. All Nastran documentation is provided in both context sensitive Windows help and Adobe .pdf file format.

4.	Better Support. Technical support is a critical component of any FEA software package. There is nothing more frustrating to an FEA user than non-responsive and ineffective technical support. You are in the midst of a critical project and you find your telephone calls and emails to technical support go unanswered for days. When you do get an “answer”, you find it is of limited value or simply does not solve “your” problem. At NEi Software support is geared toward the individual engineer with quick turnaround on all inquiries. We treat our customers as we would want to be treated and understand deadlines and how important it is not just to get back to a customer but to get back with their problem solved quickly. See what our customers have to say. [more] Additionally, we offer thorough training, mentoring, and consulting programs designed in a way that is convenient and effective for you. Whether your preference is to attend a training class at our facility, or to participate in a WebEx online course, or to obtain custom on site training for the staff at your facility, NEi Software insures that your software investment works for you by backing it up with the help you need when you need it.

5.	Cost. Controlling software cost is a major concern in today’s competitive environment. Managers are under constant pressure to get the most out of their software budget. NEi Software’s business is structured solely around FEA software. Selling is direct. You don’t pay for large corporate overhead, or subsidize CAD, PLM, or any other product lines. You pay for FEA software. Both large and small companies can benefit from cost savings by using NEi Nastran. Minardi Formula Race Team realized major cost savings and improvements in design lead time with NEi Nastran. Cessna realized major savings in operating costs by having a custom element written into NEi Nastran.