Difference in FEA Inventor

[vex]

Is there significant difference in the Inventor Professional FEA and the Nastran In-CAD environment? A cursory look over the Nastran In-CAD appears to have thermal loading where as Pro does not. Are there any other differences?

[CCarreiras · Accepted solution]

HI!

Nastran IN-CAD has a lot more types of analysis than Inventor Pro.
Besides the thermal as you say, (among some other nice capabilities), it can also run non-linear analysis, inventor pro can only create linear analysis.and modal.

Now, depend what you need to analyze...

Check here...

http://www.autodesk.com/products/nastran-in-cad/compare

[JDMather]

I haven't experimented whith Nastran yet, but this is the list of analysis types that I see ....

[vex]

Wow. I didn't know they had that much packed in to it.

[admaiora]

A lot of interesting things. JD let me know what do you think when you will try it.

[JDMather]

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@admaiora wrote:

A lot of interesting things. JD let me know what do you think when you will try it.

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Well, I have experimented a little.
Enough that I have abandoned Algor (Autodesk Simulation Mechanical) for Nastran-in-CAD.