Femap – Past, Present, and Future

Femap is an integrated preprocessor and postprocessor for finite element analysis.  In this video from Siemens PLM Software, the head of Femap’s development talks about the software’s past, present, and future.

• Mark Sherman video

Highlight’s from Altair’s User Conference

Monica Schnitger attended the Altair Hyperworks Technology Conference and documented her top 10 impressions from the event.   Altair’s addition of CFD capability through their acquisition of ACUSIM was called “the final piece” of the HyperWorks product line according to Altair CEO Jim Scapa.

• Schnitger’s 10 highlights from the Altair conference

Optimal’s Sculptor Uses Windows Azure

Optimal Solutions Software has added “burst” to Windows Azure capability to their Sculptor software to provide customers with extra compute capability that in turn results in shorter time-to-market.  In this Microsoft case study, Optimal describes the benefits of this new capability.

• Sculptor case study

CD-adapco Released STAR-CCM+ v6.04

CD-adapco announced the latest release of their CFD software, STAR-CCM+ v6.04.  This release contains many new and enhanced capabilities including Eulerian multiphase flow, liquid film formation, and integration with Autodesk Inventor.

• CD-adapco’s announcement

Tecplot’s 30th Anniversary

Tecplot celebrated their 30th anniversary of developing CFD software.

• Tecplot blog post