CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
November 2005
Product News
Noran Engineering, Inc. Offers Automatic Contact Generation Automatic Contact Generation
Noran Engineering, Inc. (Westminster, CA; http://www.NENastran.com ) announced NEiNastran V9.0 will contain a fully automated interface to handle surface contact and weld element generation in assembly models. Previously users were required to specify which surfaces were in contact which could be time consuming for models with many contact surfaces. V9.0 adds a single command interface to simply specify the type of contact (general, welded, bi-directional sliding, or rough).
"Surface to surface contact analysis has been a great new resource for the end users of analytical tools," says Dave Weinberg, CEO Noran Engineering, Inc. "Currently users spend a significant amount of time defining the interfaces between parts in assemblies. Automating this process will save users hours of model preparation time especially for complex assemblies with many parts in contact. The user will simply mesh the individual parts or the entire assembly as a single process and NEiNastran V9.0 will do the rest. Welded contact allows users to move parts around in their model without having to redefine anything which is ideal for optimization of designs."
Noran Engineering, Inc. continues to add technology that is driven by our customer applications. This contact feature is just one of many to be added to NEiNastran V9.0, scheduled for early 2006 delivery. Additional announcements highlighting the significant feature enhancements are expected to follow.
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