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MSC.SuperModel is more than just a software package — it’s an engineering solution. MSC.SuperModel directly addresses the following structural simulation and analysis challenges:
• Division of engineering labor and model management of large structures
• Management and tracking of varying structural designs
• Simulation of structures with highly varying materials and properties
• Simulation and understanding of the complex loading environment
• Assessment of analysis results
The MSC.SuperModel system is comprised of MSC.Nastran, MSC.Patran and the MSC.SuperModel module. This tightly integrated system provides solutions for commonly encountered problems in simulating and analyzing large aerospace structures.
The MSC.SuperModel module is an umbrella over MSC.Nastran, the aerospace standard for analysis, and MSC.Patran, thus providing users with superior Computer Aided Design (CAD) geometry access, meshing and results postprocessing functionalities. MSC.Nastran is automatically invoked for structural analysis. Additionally, key aspects of MSC.Nastran, allow users to represent structural components as self-contained models, are also available through an easy-to-use graphical user interface.
While MSC.SuperModel operates as an umbrella over MSC.Nastran and MSC.Patran, it can also serve as the CAE data server to a company’s Product Data Management (PDM) system.