ansys and femap

[andreamordini]

Hi all,

totally disappointed from the ansys GUI, I was thinking to have a look to femap to be used as a pre and post for ansys.
Anyone has some experience? What is possible to control directly by femap and what has to be controlled by ansys?
Impressions?

andrea

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Andrea Mordini, Civil Engineer, Ph.D.

http://www.andreamordini.com

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Andrea Mordini, Civil Engineer, Ph.D.

http://www.andreamordini.com

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[Stringmaker]

The Ansys GUI is quite functional once you learn it. However, the learning curve is relatively steep. I always find most programs relatively difficult at first to use...just me though. Give it sometime. Plenty of tutorials online to help you out at first.

 

[rstupplebeen]

I used Femap as a preprocessor for Abaqus up until 2 years ago. It was very capable however seemed to be a couple of releases behind for new features. For these minor unsupported features a modification of the input file usually was a simple workaround. I see no reason why Femap would not have a very similar performance with Ansys. Grab a free trial of Femap and see for yourself. Hope this helps.

Rob