Femap

<h2 id="history">History</h2>
<p>1985 - ESP founded by George Rudy and Femap originally developed as a pre- and postprocessor to <a href="/facts/Nastran/gpkm56hL">Nastran</a>.
1999 - ESP acquired by <a href="/facts/SDRC/SQlqree5">SDRC</a>
2001 - SDRC acquired by <a href="/facts/Electronic_Data_Systems/JeGRgzBE">EDS</a>
2004 - Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software suite spun off to form <a href="/facts/UGS_Corp./DtPC6HWh">UGS</a>
2007 - UGS acquired by the Automation & Drives Division of <a href="/facts/Siemens/coa80TQn">Siemens</a> and <a href="/facts/Siemens_Digital_Industries_Software/WakFThme">Siemens Digital Industries Software</a> formed
</p><p>Femap product development continues as a CAD neutral and solver independent application. Also it is available bundled with a number of Siemens PLM solvers, including <a href="/facts/NX_Nastran/gpkm56hL">NX Nastran</a>, Advanced Non-Linear Solver, Thermal/Advanced Thermal Solver, and Flow Solver.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a>
As a standalone utility Femap is typically used with independent solvers such as <a href="/facts/ADINA/e987LsJg">ADINA</a>, <a href="/facts/NEi_Nastran/ljqpnMdT">NEi Nastran</a>, <a href="/facts/LS-DYNA/uMW76SQz">LS-DYNA</a>, <a href="/facts/ANSYS/46AYvV7W">ANSYS</a> or <a href="/facts/Abaqus/o5huVkCj">Abaqus</a>.
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<h2 id="release-history">Release history</h2>
<table><tbody><tr><th>Version</th><th>Release Date</th></tr><tr><td>9.0</td><td>January 2005</td></tr><tr><td>9.1</td><td>November 2005</td></tr><tr><td>9.2</td><td>June 2006</td></tr><tr><td>9.3</td><td>June 2007</td></tr><tr><td>10</td><td>December 2008</td></tr><tr><td>10.1</td><td>August 2009</td></tr><tr><td>10.2</td><td>October 2010</td></tr><tr><td>10.3</td><td>September 2011</td></tr><tr><td>11.0</td><td>January 2013</td></tr><tr><td>11.1</td><td>November 2013</td></tr><tr><td>11.2</td><td>March 2015</td></tr><tr><td>11.3</td><td>May 2016</td></tr><tr><td>11.4</td><td>June 2017</td></tr><tr><td>12</td><td>October 2018</td></tr><tr><td>2019.1</td><td>May 2019</td></tr><tr><td>2020.1</td><td>January 2020</td></tr><tr><td>2020.2</td><td>June 2020</td></tr><tr><td>2021.1</td><td>January 2021</td></tr><tr><td>2021.2</td><td>June 2021</td></tr><tr><td>2022.1</td><td>January 2022</td></tr><tr><td>2022.2</td><td>May 2022</td></tr><tr><td>2301</td><td>January 2023</td></tr><tr><td>2306</td><td>June 2023</td></tr><tr><td>2401</td><td>January 2024</td></tr><tr><td>2406</td><td>June 2024</td></tr></tbody></table>
<h2 id="application">Application</h2>
<p>Femap is used in a number of industries, including aerospace <a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a> and marine.
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<h2 id="add-ons">Add-ons</h2>
<p><a href="/facts/SDC_Verifier/do9c0mx9">SDC Verifier</a> enhances Femap with a new functionality. Together they provide an accepted and sound solution for the verification of constructions according to Structural Design Standards. SDC Verifier uses Femap as the pre-processor for the generation of a model and its graphical interface to visualize the results.
</p><p>• <a href="https://iberisa.wordpress.com/">Blog of FEMAP & NX Nastran</a>: written and maintained by Blas Molero Hidalgo from IBERISA (Spain) with videos, examples and much information about Finite Element Analysis (FEM/FEA) to support the FEMAP community all around the world.
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<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>"Femap". Structures.Aero. SDA. Retrieved 30 June 2015. <a href="http://structures.aero/products/femap-with-nx-nastran1/" target="_blank">http://structures.aero/products/femap-with-nx-nastran1/</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>"Femap Used by Evektor in Aircraft Design and Development," Archived 2009-04-02 at the Wayback Machine Desktop Engineering, June 2008. <a href="http://www.deskeng.com/articles/aaajps.htm" target="_blank">http://www.deskeng.com/articles/aaajps.htm</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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