• Accelerates Time-to-Market
• Cuts Development and Testing Costs
• Uses Real-World Results to Improve Quality
• Enables Collaboration Throughout the Supply Chain

MSC Software Corporation is the leading global provider of integrated enterprise simulation solutions that enable radical improvement in the time and costs associated with designing and testing manufactured products.

Accelerates Time-to-Market
The multi-CAD and associative modeling capabilities of SimOffice enable engineers to hone in quickly on the best design direction with faster, more accurate design data earlier in the product development process.

Cuts Development and Testing Costs
Connectivity with Microsoft productivity tools allows engineers to efficiently gain valuable insight into product performance characteristics, eliminate expensive physical prototypes, and capture and re-use knowledge with automated simulation procedures.

Uses Real-World Results to Improve Quality
SimOffice leverages the proven reliability of MD Nastran to deliver accurate, real-world results - reducing design flaws, warranty costs, and field failures.

Enables Collaboration Throughout the Supply Chain
With real-time collaboration capabilities and built-in compatibility with SimManager and SimEnterprise, product performance information can be easily shared with all simulation stakeholders to enable extended enterprise collaboration.


SimOffice Benefits

Powerful, Yet Easy-to-Use Design Analysis and Validation
SimOffice provides comprehensive analysis capabilities to evaluate stress, dynamics, and thermal response for a variety of products, from simple to complex. Built on Microsoft Windows and Microsoft .NET enabled, SimOffice is the first CAE environment certified ” Works with Vista”. SimOffice features an easy-to-use modeling environment with an integrated, multidiscipline solver supporting the needs of design engineers, casual users, and expert analysts. SimOffice is also an enterprise scalable solution, leveraging the industry standard MD Nastran finite element solver, Microsoft collaboration capabilities, and integrated connectivity to MSC Software's SimEnterprise solutions for simulation data management and knowledge reuse.


SimOffice includes the following core capabilities:

• Out-of-the box, all-in-one  CAE Solution incorporating:

• CAD Interface
• Geometry  and Finite Element Modeling
• Job Submission and analysis
• Results analysis and reporting
• Automation and integration
• State-of-the-art, Windows-native modeling environment

• Embedded MD Nastran solver technology
• CAD Neutral – supporting most of industries leading CAD formats and interchange formats
• Upward compatibility to MSC Engineering and Enterprise products
• Runs PATRAN session files and Patran Command Level (PCL) scripts
• Seamless integration with Microsoft productivity and collaboration solutions
• High performance compute capability for larger analyses

Intuitive Modeling Environment for the Design Engineer
SimOffice enables everyone from the casual user to the expert analyst to validate product designs - speeding up the design cycle, reducing the need for expensive prototypes, and improving product quality. A Windows-native, Office 2007 modeled,  intuitive user interface makes it simple to mesh CAD-native geometry, apply loads and boundary conditions, run analyses, and evaluate the results of product simulations under real-world operating conditions. Built-in connectivity to productivity tools such as MS Excel, enables effortless linking of spreadsheet-based information tables, equations, plots, and graphs.


Harnessing the Power of MD Nastran
SimOffice is powered by MD Nastran – based on the most widely-used finite element solver in the world - to deliver robust and reliable analysis capabilities for stress, vibration, and other performance aspects of proposed designs. Using SimOffice, engineers can quickly and easily conduct analyses including:

• Out-of-the box, all-in-one  CAE Solution incorporating:
• Linear and non-linear static, including contacts
• Linear buckling
• Normal modes
• Steady-state heat transfer
• Dynamic response
• Transient

While most simulations can be performed on the engineer's desktop computer, SimOffice's built-in compatibility with MSC Software SimEnterprise solutions also allows large, compute-intensive simulations to be run using MD Nastran on high performance servers.

For more information on MSC.SimOffice please visit their website.