Integrate CAD and Thermal Analysis, 2 in a Series

By DE Editors

The SINDA/G for Patran v.2.5 plug-in fully integrates the thermalanalysis features of SINDA/G by Network Analysis, Inc. (NAI; Chandler,AZ) with the FEA (finite element analysis) pre- and post-processingcapabilities of MSC.Patran from MSC.Software (Santa Ana, CA).

 The SINDA/G for Patran plug-in allows for the seamlessintegration of the two programs with all major functions of bothsoftware programs supported, according to NAI. Further, the transparentintegration lets you operate such thermal features as convection,surface-to-surface radiation, and heating, without having to know theformat of SINDA/G or thermal radiation codes.
NAI describes SINDA/G for Patran as fully compatible with MSC.Patranand MSC.Nastran.  It supports thermal radiation and orbitalheating industry standard programs, including Thermica, Nevada, andTRASYS. This is said to include a radiation super-element concept andtrue geometric primitives that are passed to thermal radiation codes.The thermal result generated by SINDA/G for Patran can be used byMSC.Nastran to calculate thermal stresses and distortions.

SINDA/G for Patran allows the thermal features of SINDA/G — convectionequations, programming logic or entire subroutines — to be incorporatedin Patran-generated models. The SINDA/G for Patran plug-in includes aPatran-style graphical user interface.

SINDA/G for Patran runs on Windows-compatible PCs and UNIXworkstations. The plug-in alone costs $4000. SINDA/G itself is also$4,000. For further details, click here.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.