MSC Announces MSC Apex Computational Parts Based CAE System

MSC Software has released its next-generation CAE platform, MSC Apex. The application is the world’s first computational parts based CAE system and is to serve as a platform for a broad range of physics and applications MSC will introduce, a company press release states.

Results may be viewed in a number of ways. In this example, the natural frequencies are displayed in a horizontal spectrum. Image courtesy of MSC Software.

Features of MSC Apex include:

• Providing a built-from-the-ground up, fully integrated and generative simulation environment. This allows users to leverage end-to-end simulation workflows with full associativity between geometric and analysis data.
• Power from a CAE specific direct modeling and meshing engine that has a complete set of direct modeling tools to simplify geometry clean-up and idealization.
• Enabling of integrated solver methods which help users interactively validate parts and subsystem models. The generative behavior of the software is leveraged to incrementally validate evolving models.
• Complementary support for Patran and MSC Nastran.

MSC Apex model browser and workflow instructions make it easy to learn and use.

Users can easily identify and remove features based on feature type with MSC Apex Modeler. Image Courtesy of MSC Software.

As the first computational parts based system, MSC Apex also enables groups of users to exchange mathematical models in/through the supply chain without compromising Intellectual Property. The software serves as a Parts & Assemblies Model Representation centric solution, giving supply chains an opportunity to share product structure and independently manage

“The patterns that were developed 30+ years ago for simulation have simply not evolved to keep pace with the tremendous challenges that industry faces today,” said Dominic Gallello, president & CEO of MSC Software. “We rethought the process, and have found many opportunities to deliver dramatic productivity improvements to engineers and analysts. Our team rearranged the way in which the components of geometry modeling, solving, and post processing relate to each other, moving away from a serial process to an interactively connected process based on a new parts and assembly paradigm.”

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