Western Pennsylvania ANSYS User's Group

Winter 2001 Meeting

Date: January 25, 2001 from 9:00 am - 3:30 pm

Where: California University Building, Room 102 in Southpoint, Canonsburg, PA

Directions to Cal. Univ. Building: (Note: we will be just down the hill from ANSYS Inc. and Mallett's offices)

Exit off I-79 at Exit 10A -Southpoint/Hendersonville. Turn into the Southpoint Complex on Southpoint Boulevard. Stay on Southpoint Boulevard for 1.4 miles. Straight through at the 1st stop sign (Southpoint Golf Clubhouse), straight through at 2^nd stop sign (Technology Drive) passing the lake on left. Turn right at 3^rd stop sign (Technology Drive), travel up the hill to the second building on the left (Cal. Univ. Building) and turn left into their parking lot. Park where you can and look for room 102.

TOPICS:

FEMAP
a CAD-neutral, solver-neutral engineering modeling and results visualization and processing tool
ModelChecker
a menu-driven (or batch), automatic, comprehensive check of any ANSYS structural model before the model is analyzed

Agenda:

9:00 - 10:00 am	Socialize: Coffee and Donuts
10:00 am - noon	FEMAP, presented by Dan Hinkle, FEMAP Support Engineer, SDRC, Exton, PA dan.hinkle@sdrc.com FEMAP: can convert models from NASTRAN to ANSYS to ABAQUS, can read in solid models from any CAD package can be your pre- and post-processor for various and numerous solvers comes in 3 levels: basic, professional, enterprise (Call Mallett Technology for pricing) demo CD is available (limited to 300 nodes, no date limit)
noon - 1:30 pm	Lunch: Chicken Pot Pie, Italian Stuffed Shells, Rolls, and Garden Tossed Salad, Soda
1:30 - 2:30 pm	ModelChecker, presented by Mallett Technology Inc. You may view a two-page pdf file on ModelChecker (388 kB) ModelChecker: sold by CAEG Inc, Woodbury, CT durocher@caeai.com works with ANSYS 5.7 (no previous ANSYS versions) only for structural analysis models looks like it can save a lot of grief in debugging a model provides an excellent form of documenting an FEA model pricing is tied to the no. of ANSYS seats you license Website: www.modelchecker.com
2:30 - 3:00 pm	Adjournment (when/where/what topic for next meeting ?) Late March 2001, Annual Student Presentations Meeting