Overview

MSC Apex Modeler is a Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE) specific direct modeling and meshing solution designed to streamline CAD clean-up, simplification, and meshing workflows. It offers sophisticated, interactive tools that are both user-friendly and easy to learn, enabling engineers and analysts to efficiently prepare models for analysis.

Features and Capabilities

• Direct Modeling: Enables users to interactively create and edit geometry by selecting entities such as faces, edges, or vertices, and modifying them through intuitive actions like pushing, pulling, or dragging. This functionality is complemented by integrated meshing technology that automatically updates the mesh following any geometry modification.
• Midsurfacing: Provides efficient tools for extracting midsurfaces from complex solid models, accommodating varying thicknesses. Dedicated algorithms facilitate the creation of midsurfaces, while additional geometry tools extend and connect these surfaces automatically, enhancing model idealization for analysis.
• Meshing: Features high-performance, generative meshing algorithms capable of handling complex geometries. Users can generate meshes based on specified criteria such as mesh size, element type, and feature definitions. The software supports hex meshing by allowing the splitting of solids into hex-meshable cells and the suppression of optional edges.
• Geometry Cleanup and Repair: Offers tools to remove unnecessary features like fillets, chamfers, holes, and cylinders by specifying feature types and dimension ranges, thereby automating the cleanup process. Interactive repair tools enable users to address issues such as slivers or cracks in the geometry, ensuring a high-quality mesh.
• Automatic Thickness and Offset Assignment: Automatically generates thickness and offset properties for shell elements, streamlining the assignment of material properties and enhancing the accuracy of simulations.
• User-Friendly Interface: Designed with multi-purpose tools to enhance usability, the application includes numerous learning aids such as tutorials, video-based documentation, workflow guidance, and at-mouse instructions, promoting productivity from the first day of use.
• CAD Format Compatibility: Supports a wide range of CAD formats, including ACIS, CATIA V4/V5, IGES, Parasolid, Pro/Engineer, SolidWorks, STEP, UG-NX, and Inventor, facilitating seamless integration into existing workflows.
• Export Capabilities: Allows export to various formats such as BDF (including nodes, elements, materials, section properties, loads) with user-defined units, and MNF (Modal Neutral File) for Adams Flexible Bodies, ensuring compatibility with other analysis tools.
• Learning and Support Resources: Equipped with in-program videos, workflow instructions, at-mouse guidance, and searchable documentation to assist users in quickly mastering the software. Additionally, it offers an Integrated Reporting Tool for submitting enhancement ideas or issues.