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Professional Designer
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Core Package
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 The Professional Designer core package provides static stress, linear dynamic and steady-state and transient heat transfer analysis capabilities. Static stress analysis capabilities include the use of linear materials models, weight, center of gravity and mass moment of inertia analysis and linear contact. Linear dynamic analysis capabilities include natural frequency (modal), natural frequency (modal) with load stiffening, response spectrum, random vibration, frequency response, transient stress (direct integration), transient stress (modal superposition) and critical buckling load. Heat transfer capabilities solve linear and nonlinear thermal designs by considering conduction, convection, heat flux, heat generation, radiation and thermal contact in steady-state or transient analyses.
This core package includes FEMPRO, an easy-to-use, single user interface for finite element modeling, results evaluation and presentation and a complete suite of modeling tools.
Analysis CapabilitiesModeling- InCAD technology for direct CAD/CAE data exchange with Alibre Design, Autodesk Inventor, Inovate, IronCAD, KeyCreator, Mechanical Desktop, Pro/ENGINEER, Rhinoceros, Solid Edge and SolidWorks
- Full associativity with each design change for most CAD solid modelers
- CAD support for 3-D solid models in ACIS, IGES, STEP and STL file formats
- CAD support for 2-D and 3-D wireframe geometry in CDL, DXF and IGES file formats
- Ability to create a CAD Transfer Utility installation package to provide direct data exchange even when ALGOR and the CAD package reside on separate computers
- Part names, part colors and unit of length from a CAD solid model are captured in the FEA model
- Superdraw 2- and 3-D sketching tools including capabilities to draw points, lines, rectangles, arcs, circles, splines and tangent lines and modify sketch objects with commands including copy, divide, fillet, intersect, rotate, mirror, move, parallel, trim/extend and delete
- Complex surface modeling
- Joint Creation Utility for automatically creating pin and ball joints based on either two specified endpoints or a mid-point
- Beam modeling including direct access to AISC section property data
- Capability to combine all element types available for a given analysis type in a single model
- Capability to import FEA models that are stored in ABAQUS, ANSYS, FEMAP®*, NASTRAN, PATRAN or SDRC file formats
*FEMAP is a registered trademark of UGS Corp. of Plano, Texas.
Meshing- 2- and 3-D parametric, structured meshing options for 3-point triangular, 4-point rectangular, 8-point 3-D, between two objects and 4-object 3-D meshing
- Automatic, unstructured 2-D meshing
- Automatic, unstructured 3-D quadrilateral or triangular surface mesh generation and refinement
- Automatic, intelligent, feature-based mesh refinement and
point-and-click definition of areas where a finer mesh is desired
- Mesh seed points for specifying locations of nodes (e.g., to apply loads and constraints)
- A midplane mesh engine for reducing thin, solid features in a CAD model to plate/shell elements with automatic handling of parts, assemblies, multi-thickness regions and mixed element type models
- Automatic, hex-dominant hybrid solid meshing to produce higher quality elements on the first pass and more accurate results
Element Library- Spring element
- 2-D element (planar, axisymmetric)
- 3-D truss element
- 3-D beam element
- 3-D membrane plane stress element
- 3-D plate element
- Thin composite element
- Sandwich (thick) composite element
- 3-D brick element
- 3-D tetrahedral element
- Gap element
- Cable element
- Rigid element
- Thermal 2-D element (planar, axisymmetric)
- Thermal rod element
- Thermal plate element
- Thermal brick element
- Thermal tetrahedral element
- Click here for a more detailed element library
Material models- Linear elastic isotropic
- Linear elastic orthotropic
- Linear temperature-dependent isotropic
- Linear temperature-dependent orthotropic
- Piezoelectric
- General piezoelectric
- General piezoelectric temperature-dependent anisotropic
- Anisotropic
- Thermal isotropic
- Thermal orthotropic
- Temperature-dependent thermal isotropic
- Temperature-dependent thermal orthotropic
- Composite laminate
Loading and Constraints- Static friction
- Forces (nodal, surface, edge, gravitational and centrifugal)
- Moments
- Temperatures (nodal, surface, initial and applied)
- Voltages (nodal and surface)
- Prescribed displacements (nodal, surface and edge)
- Prescribed rotations (nodal, surface and edge)
- Pressures (surface and hydrostatic)
- Tractions
- Variable surface and distributed loads
- Global and off-axis constraints (nodal, surface and edge)
- Variable-stiffness off-axis constraints (nodal, surface and edge)
- End releases
- Twisting (plate elements)
- Local coordinate system support
- Lumped masses
- Mass moments of inertia
- Displacement vs. period, acceleration vs. period and G vs. period spectrum
- Acceleration and G power spectrum density
- Ground or base motion
- Acceleration and force excitation frequencies
- Convection (steady and temperature-dependent)
- Radiation (isolated and body-to-body)
- Heat flux
- Internal heat generation (steady and temperature-dependent)
- Curing and mean temperature difference
Solver Options- Sparse Lanczos eigensolver
- Symmetric sparse
- Unsymmetric sparse
- Skyline
- Algebraic multigrid (AMG) iterative
- Banded
- Restart capability
- Parallel processing for multiple processors
- Distributed memory processing (32- and 64-bit Linux [Red Hat])
Results Evaluation- Integrated environment for model visualization and results evaluation
- 3-D dynamic viewing options and rich colors provided by OpenGL-based displays
- Result displays of:
- Displacement
- Stress
- Strain
- Strain energy density
- Reaction force
- Factor of safety
- Vector plots of principal stress directions
- Plate/shell thickness
- Isosurfaces
- Static and time-dependent temperature distribution
- Static and time-dependent heat flow
- Static and time-dependent heat flux
- User-supplied functions operating on calculated results, user-supplied constraints and material properties
- AISC (ASD 1989) code checking
- Shear and bending moment diagrams
- Precision contouring for accuracy assessment
- Support for Tsai-Wu, Maximum Stress or Maximum Strain failure criteria for composites
- Stress linearization utility for use with a linear static stress analysis on 2- or 3-D thin-walled structures
- Built-in, virtual instrumentation through Monitor for result graphs
- Output power spectrum density at nodes
- Ability to calculate enthalpy based on weighted average part temperature
- Point-and-click result inquiry options
- Result text listing
- Support for exporting results to common Windows applications
- Annotations to highlight the location of minimum and maximum results
- Capability to define result probes at desired locations
- Dynamic clipping planes for slicing models
- Realistic visualization of elements
- Capability to display parts as transparent (translucent)
- Automated tools for multiphysics simulation to:
- Transfer temperature results to a static stress analysis, MES, linear dynamic or electrostatic analysis
- Couple heat transfer and fluid flow analysis to accurately simulate natural, forced or mixed convection
Results Presentation- Capability to save all settings for a specific presentation and view that same display at any time or use those settings with a different model
- VRML utility to generate 3-D, web-based models with results
- Export a model's visualization data to third-party HOOPS Stream File (HSF) format
- Output result contours and graphs as BMP, JPG, TIF, PNG, PCX and TGA formats
- Integrated animation creation and display tools
- Automatic image generation of each result presentation for inclusion in reports
- Report Wizard and environment for automatic HTML or PDF generation and display
User Interface- Windows-native interface with tree views, multiple views and docking toolbars
- Right-click application, modification and deletion of loads, constraints and FEA properties
- Capability to import constraints from ASCII text files
- Shortcut keyboard and mouse controls for dynamic viewing options
- Capability to use mathematical expressions for data entry
- Built-in data checking for reasonable input
- Ruler to display scale when viewing models
- Multiple undo and redo capability
- Load and constraint set capabilities for managing different design scenarios
- Drag and drop
- Material Library Manager includes a library featuring materials from MatWeb and provides the capability to import, create and manage customized libraries
- Automatic view factor calculator for determining the amount of radiation to be passed between bodies in a steady-state heat transfer analysis based on user-specified input
- Film/Convection Coefficient Calculator for open (external), closed (internal) and buoyant flows uses classical correlations to estimate the heat transfer coefficient between a solid and adjoining fluid
- Right-click, context-sensitive help
- Support for standard and custom unit systems
- Data management utility for archiving models
Automation- API for reading ALGOR results and using the automatic 3-D meshing tools
- Published, centralized file format
- Built-in script and macro tools
- Add-In Manager provides ability for third-party plug-ins that offer extended software functionality
- Support for plug-and-play analysis add-ons
- Capability to define a user-defined result type
- EAGLE, a programming language designed to assist in performing repetitive tasks, conducting parametric or variational FEA studies, optimizing designs and performing FEA and MES analyses which require multiphysics
Configuration- Customization options for user control over default settings, displays, annotations, reports and much more
- Internationalized language support including:
- Graphical user interface and user documentation in Chinese (simplified), English, French, German, Italian and Spanish
- Automatic language detection based on Windows regional settings
- Convenient selection of language of user's choice
- Support for Windows (32- and 64-bit), Linux (32- and 64-bit) and HP-UX (64-bit) operating systems
- Ability to run an analysis on a remote computer
- Support for 3-D motion controllers from 3Dconnexion including SpacePilot, SpaceBall, SpaceMouse and SpaceTraveler
- Customizable mouse functionality including pre-defined and user-defined templates
- Support for LAN and WAN networked license sharing; enterprise-wide and remote-use licensing; and single, node-locked licensing
- Support for redundant servers
Service and Education- "What's New" dialog summarizes recent software updates
- "Getting Started" demo to guide first-time users
- Keystroke-specific tutorials
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User's Guide with robust search and index capabilities and available in international languages
- Integrated HTML Programming with ALGOR Guide with robust search and index capabilities
- ALGOR Assistant for expert, on-demand support through a real-time chat or design session
- Technical support and software updates with a current Software Updates and Support subscription
- Automatic software update wizard periodically checks for new software
- Tools for managing your customer account available from the My Account section of the ALGOR web site
- Regular e-mail newsletter
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