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Femap v11.2 Geometry Updates
Chip Fricke, Femap Principal Applications Engineer
chip.fricke@siemens.com
Femap Symposium Series 2015
June, 2015
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Femap v11.2 –
Geometry Creation and Editing Enhancements
Addition of a Smart Snap mode
Geometry -> Midsurface -> Automatic, Variable Thickness Processing
Enhanced Geometry -> Curve – From Surface -> Offset Curve/Washer and
Pad commands
Enhanced Geometry -> Surface -> NonManifold Add command
Addition of a Geometry -> Surface -> Extract command
Geometry -> Solid commands:
• Addition of an Extend command
• Enhanced Slice command
Modify –> Move By –> Point command enhanced to include moving points on
Solids
Modify -> Move By -> Curve command enhanced to include moving curves on
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Solids
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Femap v11.2 –
Meshing Toolbox Geometry Enhancements
Feature Removal:
• Removal of Curves now allows removal of exterior boundary curves
• Removal of Blends operation added
Feature Editing:
• Edit operation added
• Offset surface operation added
Geometry Editing
• Enhanced Pad and Washer operations
• Enhanced Extend operation
• Project / Move Point operation added
• Project Curve operation added
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Femap v11.2 –
Smart Snap Mode
Femap now has a “Smart
Snap” mode that locates the
closest:
• End Point
• Midpoint
• Arc Center
Activate via the Snap Mode
icon on the Select toolbar
and the Quick Access menu
• You can now set Snap
Mode as the Snap to
Femap Preference
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Geometry > Midsurface > Automatic Command
Variable Thickness Processing option – use to generate a mid-surface from a pair of
non-parallel faces
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Femap v11.2 Geometry -> Curve - From Surface commands
The Geometry -> Curve - From Surface -> Offset Curve/Washer and
Geometry -> Curve - From Surface -> Pad commands have been modified to
include options for both Factor and Distance
• The same options are also available for the Washer and Pad operations in the
Meshing Toolbox
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Femap v11.2 Pad Operation
The Geometry –> Curve - From Surface -> Pad command and Meshing
Toolbox – Geometry Editing – Pad operation now automatically recognizes
straight slots and generates a continuous offset region around the slot
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Femap v11.2 Other Geometry Operation Enhancements
The Geometry -> Surface -> NonManifold Add command includes an option for
Express processing
• Increases performance as it is run using a
single call to the Parasolid engine
A new command, Geometry -> Surface -> Extract removes and copies selected
surface(s) from their original bodies into new Sheet Solids
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Femap v11.2 –
Geometry -> Solid -> Extend command
The Geometry -> Solid -> Extend has been added to allow the extrusion of a
surface on a solid body up to the intersection with a surface on another body
• Interior boundaries on the “Extend To” surface are ignored
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Femap v11.2 –
Geometry -> Solid -> Slice command
The updated Slice command replaces the Slice, Slice Match and Slice Along
Face commands
New options:
• Generate Cross Sections
• Slice With Sheet Solid
• Slice With Curve
• Slice with multiple Parallel Planes using:
• Along Curve Normal – planar curves only
• Vector Direction Only
• Specify the Slice Color
• Delete Slicing Tool
• Repeated Slicing with multiple,
user-defined planes
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Femap v11.2 –
Modify -> Move By -> Point command
The Move By -> Point command has been updated to include moving of points
on Parasolid bodies (including Non-manifold bodies)
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Femap v11.2 –
Modify -> Move By -> Curve command
The Move By -> Curve command has been updated to include moving of curves
on Parasolid bodies (including Non-manifold bodies)
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Femap v11.2 - Meshing Toolbox
Feature Removal Tool - Curves
For exterior boundaries of solids,
including boundaries on Non-Manifold
bodies, removal of Curves is now
supported
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Femap v11.2 - Meshing Toolbox
Feature Removal Tool - Blends
Blends can be now automatically detected
on solid volume bodies and removed
• The Limit Size option can be used to keep
blends above a user-entered radius
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Femap v11.2 - Meshing Toolbox
Feature Editing Tool - Edit
The Edit operation can be used to modify
blend radii, radii of cylinders or to move
planar surfaces
• The Auto Extend option should be used
maintain tangency with adjacent surfaces
and update continuous blends with the
inputted Value
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Femap v11.2 - Meshing Toolbox
Feature Editing Tool - Offset
The Offset operation can be used to offset
surfaces on a solid volume body by the
inputted Value
• The Auto Extend option should be used
maintain tangency with adjacent surfaces,
and offsets all tangent surfaces by the
Value, including blends and radii
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Femap v11.2 - Meshing Toolbox
Feature Editing Tool – Extend
The Extend operation has been enhanced to include two (2) new options for
Extend To:
• Surface
• Surface Auto Curve – allows the extension
of all surfaces continuous with the surface
that the selected curve is attached to
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Femap v11.2 - Meshing Toolbox
Feature Editing Tool – Project/Move Point
The Project/Move Point operation allows
the editing of points on solids by:
• Moving selected point(s) to a Point
• Project selected point(s) to a:
• Curve*
• Surface* or
• Solid*
Includes an option for Edge Aligned* to
maintain direction of one of the curves
attached to the point
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Femap v11.2 - Meshing Toolbox
Feature Editing Tool – Project/Move Point
Example of using/not using the Edge Aligned option
Edge Aligned
option enabled
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Feature Editing Tool – Project Curve
A Project Curve operation can be used to
project a curve or curves to a Surface to
Split
• Operation projects curves Normal to the
Surface to Split using:
• Imprint
• Imprint, Extend or
• Imprint, Extend, Clean
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