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Complete and robust

mechanical simulation solution

• Multi-CAD modeling: Imports and evaluates

a range of potential designs from Autodesk®

AutoCAD®, and Autodesk® Inventor® software,

SolidWorks®, PTC® Creo® and Pro/ENGINEER®,

Rhinoceros®, CATIA®, SpaceClaim®, Siemens®

NX, Parasolid®, and JT files, ACIS, IGES, and STEP.

• Multiphysics simulations: Provides

multiphysics simulation, such as thermal-electric

and fluid-structural, and the ability to simulate

as-manufactured material properties for

injection-molded parts.

• Flexible cloud solving: Offers flexible solving

options that enable you to leverage the cloud or

local resources for solving multiple simulations

simultaneously.

• Autodesk product integrations: Integrates

with Autodesk’s portfolio of products, such

as design, simulation, visualization, and data

management solutions.

A mechanical simulation solution for finite element

analysis powered by the Autodesk Nastran solver

Accurately predict product behavior, optimize designs, and

validate digital prototypes with a wide range of mechanical

simulation capabilities before manufacturing

Autodesk® Simulation Mechanical software,

powered by Autodesk® Nastran®, provides a

wide range of accurate mechanical simulation

capabilities to help you predict product

performance, optimize designs, and validate

product behavior before manufacturing.

Autodesk Simulation Mechanical enables users

to utilize a highly accurate, industry-tested,

general-purpose finite element solver to run

comprehensive multiphysics simulations with

other Autodesk products. Supporting multi-CAD

environments, Simulation Mechanical provides

flexibility in simulating CAD models in various

formats. Integrated with the comprehensive

Digital Prototyping solution offered by Autodesk,

Simulation Mechanical brings finite element

analysis (FEA) to all designers, engineers, and

analysts to help them make great products.

A complete mechanical simulation

solution

Autodesk Simulation Mechanical is a stand-alone

FEA mechanical simulation solution that provides a

complete offering of capabilities, such as:

• A wide range of analysis capabilities:

Delivers a broad range of analysis capabilities

that enable designers, engineers, and analysts

to bring product performance knowledge into

the design cycle, helping them to improve

collaboration, design better and safer products,

save time, and reduce costs.

• Easy-to-use interface: Connects with many

CAD solutions, making it easy to set up

simulations and produce desired results and

generate reports.

• Robust solver technology: Provides more

accurate results through advanced analysis using

the industry-trusted Autodesk Nastran solver.

• Extensive material model library: Utilizes

a wide range of element and material model

options and a customizable database of more

than 8,000 available materials.

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Facing these challenges?

• Engineers and analysts need to make

accurate design decisions without

building multiple physical prototypes.

• Confidence in simulation results is

required before investing resources in

design changes or new products.

• Product designs include a wide range of

materials—not just common metals.

• Motion and the combination of multiple

physical effects are critical design

considerations.

• Product design teams need to perform

simulation on geometry from multiple

CAD software tools.

• Field failures need to be avoided; must

determine durability of structures under

repeated loading.

• Design and manufacture of models need

to be optimized.

Perform accurate simulations

eciently

Simulation enables critical engineering decisions

to be made earlier in the design process. With

Autodesk Simulation Mechanical, part of the

Autodesk solution for Digital Prototyping,

engineers and analysts can have a simulation

solution that allows them to study initial design

intent more easily, and then more accurately

predict the performance of a complete

digitalprototype.

When working with CAD geometry, automatic

meshing tools produce high-quality elements

on the first pass—ensuring simulation accuracy

within the areas of greatest engineering concern,

and helping to predict product performance in

less time. Built-in modeling capabilities enable

designers, engineers, and analysts to edit the

mesh directly to help with the accurate placement

of loads and constraints or to create simplified

geometry for proof-of-concept studies. In addition

to increasing productivity through modeling

flexibility, designers, engineers, and analysts

can quickly validate concepts before resources

are invested in significant design changes or

newproducts.

Learn more about your product’s

performance

Through easy-to-use tools, extensive CAD support,

and proven technology, Autodesk Simulation

Mechanical software helps you predict the real-

world performance of products. Design validation

and optimization through extensive engineering

simulation helps you bring better products to

market faster—and at less cost.

Simulate more, reduce errors, and

optimize designs

Necessary design changes become more apparent

when a product’s real-world environment is

fully simulated, but computationally intensive

analyses can be both time- and resource-

intensive. Robust solvers in Autodesk Simulation

Mechanical software utilize the power of all

available computing resources for local or cloud

solves, enabling designers, engineers, and analysts

to study more realistic digital prototypes in a

practical amount of time.

Easily expand engineering simulation

capabilities

Decisions to integrate engineering simulation

further into the design process often leads to

unexpected costs and delays to retrain the

product design team. By providing an entire range

of validation and optimization tools within the

same easy-to-use interface, Autodesk Simulation

Mechanical software enables designers, engineers,

and analysts to start with mainstream tools

and then expand their toolkit to include more

advanced analysis, such as mechanical event

simulation (MES), without the need to learn

newworkflows.

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Benefits of Autodesk Simulation Mechanical

Autodesk’s complete portfolio of

simulation products

Autodesk Simulation Mechanical is part

of the mechanical simulation offerings

from Autodesk, which are all powered by

the Autodesk Nastran solver. Autodesk

Nastran is an industry-recognized FEA

solver that delivers accurate results to

complex simulations. Autodesk® Nastran®

In-CAD™ software delivers CAD-embedded

FEA simulation. Autodesk Simulation

Mechanical is a complete mechanical

simulation solution that accurately predicts

product performance, optimizes designs,

and validates product behavior before

manufacturing.

Autodesk also offers additional simulation

products to help you predict product

performance further by optimizing and

validating your designs. The Autodesk®

Simulation family of products and the

Digital Prototyping solution from Autodesk

enable you to integrate mechanical,

structural, fluid flow, thermal, composite,

and plastic injection molding simulation

tools into your product development

process to help reduce costs and speed

time to market. Autodesk provides a range

of flexible solutions that enable you to

solve locally or in the cloud, to help you

increase your productivity.

Collaborate in a multi-CAD

environment

Manufacturers often create and share designs in

multiple CAD software tools, making it dicult to

integrate engineering simulation tools into

an existing design process without requiring

significant and costly changes. Autodesk

Simulation Mechanical software supports ecient

workflows in today’s multi-CAD environment

by providing direct geometry exchange and full

associativity with Autodesk Inventor, SolidWorks,

Pro/ENGINEER, PTC Creo, and other software.

Flexible cloud solving capabilities

Autodesk Simulation Mechanical also delivers

flexible cloud computing capabilities available in

Autodesk® Simulation Flex offerings. Autodesk

Simulation Flex provides cloud-enabled and local

machine solving options for comprehensive and

multiple simulations.

Flexible solving options enable you to simulate

where and how you want, based on your needs.

If you are setting up an analysis, use your local

resources to iterate and optimize your inputs.

When you are ready to kick off a longer, more

computationally intensive simulation, use the

power of the cloud and free up your local

resources for other tasks.

Powered by Autodesk Nastran

Autodesk Nastran is an industry-recognized,

general purpose FEA solver known for its accuracy

in analyzing linear and nonlinear stress, dynamics,

and heat transfer characteristics of structures

and mechanical components. Autodesk Nastran

also offers an editor for real-time results and

changes in solution parameters while solving—

enabling users to identify and fix issues earlier in

simulations. This high-end simulation technology

is included with Simulation Mechanical so you

can obtain more accurate results for complex

simulations.

A wide range of material models

Support for a wide range of linear and nonlinear

materials allows for better understanding of

the real-world behavior of products. Whatever

materials are included in a design, from metal to

rubber, material data is vital to the accuracy of an

engineering simulation—allowing designers and

engineers to learn more about how a product will

perform or even how it might fail.

Combine multiple physical effects in

advanced simulations

Real-world product behavior is often the

result of multiple physical effects interacting

simultaneously. Advanced simulation setup

is made easier through the use of standard

engineering terminology, visual process guidance,

and user-friendly tools and wizards that automate

the transfer of simulation results between multiple

analyses—focusing designers, engineers, and

analysts on product performance, rather than

advanced numerical or simulation methods.

Critical Buckling Load

• Calculate loads that cause model to buckle due

to geometric instability

• No inertial effects

Dynamic Design Analysis Method (DDAM)

• Use to calculate maximum displacements and

stresses due to spectrum-type load

• Use when designing naval equipment or vessels

Nonlinear

Assumptions listed for linear analyses are not

limitations when doing a nonlinear analysis.

Nonlinear analyses permit the following:

• Loading can cause large deflections and/or

rotations

• Rigid body motion and/or rotations are

accounted for

• Loading can change in direction due to

deformation

• Materials can be nonlinear (either elastic or

plastic)

• Boundary conditions can change over time in a

known fashion

MES (Mechanical Event Simulation) with

Nonlinear Material Models

• Calculate displacements, velocities, accelerations,

and stresses over time due to dynamic loads

• Loads can be constant, vary over time, or vary

based on calculated results

• Inertial effects are included

Static Stress with Nonlinear Material Models

• Calculate displacements and stresses due to

static loads

• Loads can be constant, vary between time steps

or load cases, or vary based on calculated results

• Inertial effects are ignored

Natural Frequency (Modal) with Nonlinear

Material Models

• Calculate natural frequencies and mode shapes

of model

• Change in frequency due to displacements or

changing material properties is not included

• Loads do not affect frequencies

• Boundary conditions are fixed

MES Riks Analysis

• Calculate displacements and stresses before and

after model has buckled or collapsed

• Inertial effects are ignored

Thermal

Steady-State Heat Transfer

• Calculate temperature and heat fluxes after an

infinite period

• Thermal loads are constant over time

Transient Heat Transfer

• Calculate temperature and heat fluxes over time

due to thermal loads

• Thermal loads can be constant or change over

time

• Material can change states between solid and

liquid

Electrostatic

Electrostatic Current and Voltage

• Calculate current and voltage distribution after

an infinite period due to induced voltages and

current sources

Electrostatic Field Strength and Voltage

• Calculate electric field and voltage distribution

after an infinite period in an insulator due to

induced voltages and charges

Linear

Linear analyses follow these basic assumptions:

• Loading causes only small deflections or

rotations

• Change in direction of loading due to

deformation is small and can be neglected

• Materials are linear within elastic region on

stress-strain curve

• Boundary conditions do not change

Static Stress with Linear Material Models

• Calculate displacements and stresses due to

static loads

• Although contact is a nonlinear effect, it can

be included in a static stress analysis (solution

becomes iterative)

Natural Frequency (Modal)

• Calculate natural frequencies and mode shapes

of model due to purely geometric and material

properties

Natural Frequency with Load Stiffening

• Axial compressive or tensile loads affect the

frequency of system

Response Spectrum

• Calculate maximum displacements and stresses

due to spectrum-type load

Random Vibration

• Calculate statistical response of a system due

to random vibration, white noise, or power

spectrum density

Frequency Response

• Calculate steady-state response due to harmonic

or sinusoidal load or acceleration

Transient Stress (Direct Integration or Modal

Superposition)

• Calculate displacements and stresses over time

due to loads that vary in a known fashion

• Inertial effects are included

A wide range of analysis capabilities

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Autodesk Education

Autodesk offers students and educators a variety of resources to help ensure students

are prepared for successful design careers, including access to free* software,

curricula, training materials, and other resources. Get expert guidance at an Autodesk

Authorized Training Center (ATC®) site, and validate skills with Autodesk Certification.

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Autodesk Subscription

Subscribe to Autodesk® Maintenance Subscription for Autodesk® Simulation software.

Maintenance Subscription gives you an advantage with upgrades to the latest software

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Learn more at www.autodesk.com/maintenance-subscription.

Autodesk 360

The Autodesk® 360 cloud-based framework provides tools and services to extend

design beyond the desktop.† Streamline your workflows, effectively collaborate, and

quickly access and share your work virtually anytime, from anywhere. Learn more at

www.autodesk.com/autodesk360.

*Free Autodesk software licenses and/or cloud-based services are subject to acceptance of and compliance with the

terms and conditions of the license agreement or terms of service, as applicable, that accompany such software or

cloud-based services.

**All Subscription benefits are not available for all products in all languages and/or regions. Flexible licensing terms,

including previous version rights and home use, are subject to certain conditions.

†Access to services requires an Internet connection and is subject to any geographical restrictions set forth in the Terms

of Services.

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