MSC Apex Fossa Win64 MSC Apex Fossa is the winner of 13 product awards and 25 patent filings ? ? to date, is the result of 450+ man years of software development and is ? ? in use in over 300 companies' worldwide. Now on its sixth release, Apex ? ? has advanced from a highly productive model-preparation tool to a ? ? complete simulation system. ? ? ? ? Redefining Vibrational Analysis ? ? Examples of problems related to vibrations can be found everywhere. ? ? Vibration has to be addressed anytime a part or an assembly is subjected ? ? to a cyclic load, such as those found in cars, airplanes, consumer ? ? equipment, and so on. Currently, addressing these issues is a tedious ? ? trial-and-error process. ? ? ? ? Apex Fossa allows design exploration to happen in the analysis result ? ? space, without having to go back to CAD and redesign the entire part or ? ? assembly. This dramatically reduces the time for a power-user to ? ? achieve the optimal solution (from days to hours) and democratizes ? ? vibrational analysis, making it accessible to more engineers. ? ? ? ? Engineers can now see how a part or a structure responds to input ? ? parameters in real-time. Users can explore a large variety of "what if" ? ? scenarios, by adding or removing mass, damping or stiffness, as well as ? ? determine if they are observing a global or local behavior without ? ? leaving the Apex environment. This allows engineers to rapidly determine ? ? which part of the structure is not behaving as expected, and to quickly ? ? propose an effective solution. ? ? ? ? Release Highlights: ? ? ? ? Modeling - Even more productivity can be achieved in geometry clean-up, ? ? mesh generation and clean-up. This includes new connections, loads and ? ? boundary conditions (such as local coordinate system, distributed ? ? coupling, moments and dynamic forces), new meshing enhancements, ? ? geometry tools (such as slicing mirroring and Boolean operators), and ? ? additional export formats. ? ? ? Simulation - Computational parts-based generative framework has been ? ? extended from linear statics to now include the first phase of dynamics, ? ? Frequency Response. This includes Structural, Modal, and Material ? ? Damping, Multi-Step Analysis, Point Sensor, XY-Plotting and Frequency ? ? Response results exploration. ? ? ? ? Extensibility- Initial Python scripting capability is introduced in Apex ? ? Fossa. Python API has been carefully designed for compliance with Python ? ? standards. The API is based on true Python idioms and uses built-in, ? ? native Python data structures. The Python community of rich libraries ? ? makes customization powerful and easy. ? ? ? ? Apex Fossa makes the CAD-to-Mesh process radically faster, gives more ? ? engineers access to frequency response analysis and makes the overall ? ? FEA process more effective, more efficient and more enjoyable. ? ? Apex Fossa will be available for general release at the end of September.? ?