NEi Nastran comparable to ANSYS?
NEi Nastran comparable to ANSYS?
(OP)
I'm curious what people's thoughts are about whether NEi Nastran (with FEMAP) is comparable to ANSYS?
You can base it on whatever metrics you like, but some examples would be usability, ease of pre/post processing, solver speed, robustness, limitations, user community, technical support, continuous improvement of product, cost, meshing, etc.
I have received quotes for both, as well as other softwares, and NEi Nastran comes in at ~15k and ANSYS ~30K for full nonlinear structural capabilities, both with yearly maintenance of 20% purchase price.
My interest is mainly structural analysis but feel free to throw in your opinions other capabilities as well or if you only have used one of the packages what do you dislike / like about it?
My background is I use Mechanica daily, am learning Abaqus, tinker with ANSYS when possible, and occasionally mess with Solidworks Simulation.
You can base it on whatever metrics you like, but some examples would be usability, ease of pre/post processing, solver speed, robustness, limitations, user community, technical support, continuous improvement of product, cost, meshing, etc.
I have received quotes for both, as well as other softwares, and NEi Nastran comes in at ~15k and ANSYS ~30K for full nonlinear structural capabilities, both with yearly maintenance of 20% purchase price.
My interest is mainly structural analysis but feel free to throw in your opinions other capabilities as well or if you only have used one of the packages what do you dislike / like about it?
My background is I use Mechanica daily, am learning Abaqus, tinker with ANSYS when possible, and occasionally mess with Solidworks Simulation.





RE: NEi Nastran comparable to ANSYS?
Interactive mesh editing, tweaking, connecting - very cool really.
NEi are quite supportive. I don't know how they compare to NX Nastran.
I do prefer Femap over Ansys for ease of use and pre-post.
tg
RE: NEi Nastran comparable to ANSYS?
I'm going to demo it but I also wanted other peoples opinions. Thanks.
RE: NEi Nastran comparable to ANSYS?