catia as fea solver

[sonnybox]

greetings.does anyone here uses catia as fea solver? im a beginner in FE and want to learn more about its fundamentals.can you help me find related links about this.thanks.any reply would be appreciated.

 

[solid7]

I used to use the Catia FEA functionalities. The fundamentals are very straightforward. I was never formally trained in using it for what I did. (rotation with pressure and acceleration) I learned everything right out of the online documentation.

If you have a good grasp on FEA theory, you shouldn't have any problem self learning. It's very straight forward.


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[Excalibur]

CATIA V5 is mostly used to preproccessing (meshing and apply loads and restraints). MSC proposes a V5 plugin to use their solver, I believe this is the most common configuation in the industry. Only a few companies are using ELFINI (DS FEA solver) as their solver. Plus, that was before the acquisition of ABAQUS, DS did not have a non-linear solver.
Cheers

 

[catiajim]

We are using the internal solver capabilities of V5. Primarily for its Assembly Analysis capabilities. We generally use NASTRAN for other analysis. We use FEMAP to pre and post-process in this case.

 

[JacobL]

For a gneral sense of the capabilities of the model, assuming it is simple metal structures (not composite), you can use the basic meshing and analysis of CATIA. For anything more serious we use CATIA for the surfaces generation and modeling, and then move the model into PATRAN for pre-post processing, with NASTRAN/MARC as the solver.

There is obviously the matter of cost. A single PATRAN license with MARC is as much as a full configuration of CATIA P3, which is a LOT of money, so for an actual buisness to buy this configuration, is costly.