By Bruce Jenkins, President, Ora Research
The MSC Apex product family is MSC Software’s visionary initiative to make sophisticated linear structural analysis capabilities easily, intuitively and safely usable by design engineers without requiring specialized expertise in CAE. Its sixth and latest release, MSC Apex Fossa, shipped at the end of September.
The product family begins with MSC Apex Modeler, a CAE-specific direct modeling and meshing solution designed to streamline the CAD cleanup, simplification and meshing workflow for preparing product models for structural analysis. The software’s Direct Modeling capabilities let users create and edit geometry interactively by selecting entities of interest such as a face, edge or vertex of a model, then simply pushing, pulling or dragging to modify it.
Complementing Direct Modeling is the software’s built-in meshing technology. Through the combination of Direct Modeling and Meshing, for models that have already been meshed and need further geometry modification, users can employ any of the Direct Modeling or Geometry Clean-up/Repair tools, and the mesh will be immediately regenerated.
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