Today Inventor Nastran software is available as part of the Product Design & Manufacturing Collection, meaning many designers and engineers like you can adopt simulation early in the design process, when it has the most impact. Despite software availability and simulation continually becoming easier to use, there remains a fundamental question in the mind of every designer and engineer: How do I know my results are correct? This is the main reason for the lack of Inventor Nastran adoption in the workplace. Inventor Nastran, although easy to use, has a comprehensive set of tools to help you answer this question and make sense of your results. These include mesh convergence, numerous result plots, section views, and much more.

This lab will be going through tips and workflows to help you make sense of Inventor Nastran Results. Enabling you to apply simulation within your workplace helping you make informed design decisions.

This presentation will demonstrate the integration of Femap with Autodesk Inventor Nastran software to elevate CAE and finite element analysis capabilities. Focusing on Femap's advanced hex-dominant meshing and midsurfacing techniques, we'll reveal how these features enhance simulation accuracy and efficiency in Inventor Nastran. Attendees will explore the benefits of this synergy through case studies showcasing improved model fidelity and computational performance. Ideal for engineers and designers, this session will highlight practical strategies for incorporating Femap's functionalities into Inventor Nastran workflows, unlocking new potentials in product development and engineering analysis and boosting productivity and solution accuracy.

Inventor Nastran software is a powerful and comprehensive tool available within the Product Design & Manufacturing Collection. This session will introduce you to over 20 Top Inventor Nastran Tips and will include going through different type of connectors including Rigid, Spring and Rod elements using various examples demonstrating Inventor nastran live including Blast Load and Drop Test scenarios. You will be introduced to Linear analysis and Nonlinear Analysis using both implicit and explicit solvers including Nonlinear Transient Response Analysis and Explicit Dynamics Analysis. The session workflows will be based on industry best practices and my experience with working with designers and engineers. The goal of this session is to make you more confident in using Inventor Nastran software, and thus help you make better and more-innovative products within your workplace. The knowledge gained in this session will be also be relevant to Fusion Simulation as it uses the same technology as Inventor Nastran.

This session will start with real-life examples demonstrating how engineers and designers like you have greatly benefited from the advanced use of Inventor Nastran simulation technology within their companies. The software has helped them to make informed design decisions early on and enabled them to make cost-effective optimized designs with less impact on the environment, ultimately providing more time to explore “what if” scenarios. Real-life examples will include blast loads, drop tests, elastic/plastic analysis, and permanent deformation. We will then continue by explaining the process of applying nonlinear analysis using a straightforward, step-by-step approach, supported by industry best practices with explanations and tips. Our hope is to help make your Inventor Nastran adoption journey within your workplace successful. We want ultimately to help you simulate complex real-world scenarios early on, enabling the creation of sustainable designs faster and more cost-effectively.

Increase your efficiency at creating, analyzing, and viewing simulation results with Inventor Nastran software. Whether you’re just beginning with Inventor Nastran or have extensive experience, the information provided in this presentation will help with all aspects of the analysis and the navigation of the Inventor Nastran interface.

Unwanted vibration can lead to equipment failure, structural fatigue, and costly downtime. In this technical deep dive, we'll walk through a practical modal and frequency-response workflow in Inventor Nastran software using a fully generic vibrating‑machine model. You'll learn how to identify natural frequencies, interpret resonance behavior, tune stiffness, shift critical modes, and validate safe operating ranges. This session will deliver a repeatable, production-ready simulation workflow for engineers working with vibrating systems across mining, manufacturing, and machinery design.

This class will demonstrate how to use the Inventor Nastran 2020 software as a tool for analyzing different polymeric materials models. We’ll demonstrate how you can get results with high confidence using in-house material data. We’ll demonstrate the great advantage of having Inventor Nastran 2020 at hand during Inventor design work. Focusing on daily applications using rubber O-rings (and other applications using plastic components with large deformations), we’ll show which nonlinear material model can be used to demonstrate deformations and stresses in the components. The presentation will also show how to transform your own mechanical material testing into useful nonlinear material model input. This presentation will show cases from the hydraulic, offshore, and mechanical design industries. We will cover Inventor Professional software and Inventor Nastran 2020. David E. Weinberg will be co-speaker in this class.

While you make analyses using Inventor Nastran software, you do many things correctly (assigning the right connection types, applying the loads correctly, and so on). But if you aren't sure of the accuracy of the results, this class is for you. When you direct your parts or assemblies to the Inventor Nastran tab, by choosing the most accurate analysis type, you can simplify your assemblies for analysis, use the suitable mesh types, and define specific settings before analysis to bring results closer to reality. This class will show you how to choose the analysis and mesh type, what methods will simplify assemblies, and how to define settings to bring results closer to reality.

Real-world problems are rarely linear or static. Nonlinearities often impact the prediction of a product's behavior in unpredictable ways. These add uncertainty and risk to decisions made from either virtual or physical test results for engineers and designers who don't understand them. In this presentation we’ll use Inventor Nastran software to mid-surface a thin-walled assembly and weld the parts together. We’ll then go through the process of validating our model and then performing a nonlinear static analysis with linear and then nonlinear materials. Once the existing design is validated, we’ll perform a light-weighting design optimization to reduce the assembly’s weight, and then we’ll perform a nonlinear verification analysis on the final, reduced-weight design.

Learn how to correctly prepare a complicated 3D model in Fusion 360 software, then transfer it to Autodesk CFD, validate the geometry, and simulate fluid flow basis on real multipiston axial pumps. Results of this scenario will be used for stress analysis with vibration and fatigue impact in Inventor Nastran software. This class is based on a real industry case. Almost all the car companies like Ferrari, Ford, or Tesla invest in electric drive solutions. One of the biggest challenges in their new projects is the silencing of the car interior. After eliminating the loud combustion engine, we start to hear things like the knocking of the air condition system caused by vibration of fluid flow driven by multipiston pumps. Elimination of this effect leads to fatigue and failures. You’ll learn how to protect your design in Autodesk’s Simulation software. Progress is impossible without changes. Autodesk helps us make these changes properly.

In this session we will look at the functionality available to automate Nastran using iLogic and how this can be applied within Inventor. We will also look at some of the design workflows where this could be used.

This presentation will focus on the newly developed Topology Optimization technology now being used in Autodesk Nastran In-CAD software and also found in Autodesk Nastran standalone, Fusion 360 Ultimate software, Inventor Simulation software, and Dreamcatcher software. We will begin with an introduction of how Topology Optimization works, and then we'll focus on the Autodesk Nastran In-CAD interface for Topology Optimization. We will perform several examples that will include how to produce designs with minimized mass and maximized stiffness that comply with various design and manufacturing constraints. Examples will include minimized mass with stress and compliance design constraints and various manufacturing constraints such as additive and subtractive with symmetry. We will show a complete workflow that includes importing optimized .STL geometry and building a verification analysis model.

Thousands of engineers around the world are making better design decisions using the simulation tools in Inventor Pro. As success and comfort levels increase, engineers need to look beyond the limited questions that can be asked of this linear static solution to truly understand and respond to the demands of innovation. Autodesk Nastran In-CAD brings advanced analysis techniques to the Inventor platform allowing engineers to explore nonlinear, vibratory, buckling and other behaviors or failure conditions within the context of an interactive design and modeling session. Attendees of this workshop will be taught to recognize the need for these solutions and how to take their Inventor digital prototypes thru advanced tests. Additionally, they will be introduced to the inputs required and the outputs produced so more exacting and precise engineering decisions can be made.

The recently acquired Autodesk Nastran general-purpose finite element analysis (FEA) solver has gained a lot of popularity, and at the center of this is the newly developed topology optimization technology now being used in Autodesk Nastran stand-alone, Fusion 360 software, and Inventor Simulation software. This class will introduce the basics of topology optimization in Autodesk Nastran and demonstrate some of the advanced features that empower designers to create better designs and modify existing ones, making them lighter and more efficient. This session features Nastran and SimStudio.

This class is a practical introduction to using Autodesk Nastran In-CAD. Students will become familiar with the user interface and workflow, revisit core concepts in FEA, and perform stress analysis on a handful of everyday designs. With a few simple exercises, students will become comfortable and familiar with Nastran In-CAD. In each exercise, a new design will be introduced. Together, the class will use Nastran to set up a load case and analyse the resultant stress. After this, changes will be made to the design (geometry, materials) or the load case (forces, constraints), and the analysis will be repeated. By the end of the session, students should be as comfortable using Nastran for basic stress analysis as they are with Inventor's native stress analysis tool.

Do you want to know how it's possible that the von Mises stress is twice as big as the yield point value and the model doesn't fail? Do you want to learn how to quickly prepare a simulation without errors? And, most importantly, do you want to learn how to correctly evaluate the results? This is the session just for you. FEA simulation software has been on the market for years, offering advanced analysis capabilities. However, knowledge from engineering practice is still lacking. These days, time moves faster than our traditional engineering workflow. Times have changed and now there is no time for trying. It's necessary to prepare a model with good mesh quality and results convergence in the first iteration. We will present good practices as well as tips and tricks for the simulation workflow. We'll look at complex and real industry examples in Autodesk Fusion 360 software and Inventor Nastran software.

Today Autodesk Nastran In-CAD software is available as part of the Product Design & Manufacturing Collection, meaning many designers and engineers like you have the capability to adopt simulation early in the design process as this is where it has the most impact. Despite software availability and simulation continually becoming easier to use, there remains a fundamental question on the mind of every designer and engineer: How do I know my results are correct? This is the main reason for the lack of Autodesk Nastran In-CAD adoption within workplace. Autodesk Nastran In-CAD, although easy to use, has a comprehensive set of tools to help you answer this question and make sense of your results. These include mesh convergence, numerous result plots, section views, and much more. The session will include workflows and tips based on industry best practices. The goal of this session is to make you more confident in using Autodesk Nastran In-CAD software, and thus help you make better and more-innovative products within your workplace.

Discover the advantages Autodesk's new generative techniques have over well-known optimization methods. We’ll explain this using two next-generation technologies: Generative Modeling and Generative Design. The session will give you a solid understanding of differences and how to apply the two techniques. You’ll learn how to verify results in the simulation environment of Autodesk Fusion 360 and Inventor Nastran software, and how to interpret safety factors and von Mises stress values. Safely removing a significant amount of material without fear of structural failure is not easy, but you’ll see how to do it easily and safely. You’ll learn how to use Autodesk Fusion 360 to increase product-development agility and optimize the design-to-manufacturing process. Generative Design capabilities are in Autodesk Fusion 360 and Inventor software. Cloud collaboration makes it possible to verify one design in different Autodesk software systems. You’ll also have the opportunity to get your questions directly to the people creating new features.

As success and comfort levels increase, engineers need to look beyond the limited questions that can be asked of this linear static solution to truly understand and respond to the demands of innovation. Autodesk Nastran In-CAD software brings advanced analysis techniques to the Inventor platform, letting engineers explore nonlinear, vibratory buckling and other behaviors or failure conditions within the context of an interactive design and modeling session. You will learn to recognize the need for these solutions and how to take your Inventor digital prototypes through advanced tests. Additionally, you will be introduced to the inputs required and the outputs produced so more-exacting and more-precise engineering decisions can be made.