Linear Analysis

Thermal Analysis

Modal Analysis

SimOffice Benefits

Powerful, Yet Easy-to-Use Design 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 Vista-enabled, SimOffice features an easy-to-use modelling 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:

• State-of-the-art, Windows-native modelling environment
• Embedded MD Nastran solver technology
• Interoperability with Patran, CAD systems, and finite element analysis products
• Seamless integration with Microsoft productivity and collaboration solutions
• High performance compute capability for larger analyses

Intuitive Modelling 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, 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 - 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:

• Linear statics
• Linear buckling
• Normal modes
• Stead-state heat transfer
• Dynamic response

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.