Is NINCAD2017 compatible with the new solidworks2017?
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Hi @porca_paletta,
Nastran In-CAD 2017 supports working with Solidworks 2016 and Solidworks 2015, in addition to Inventor 2017. Dassault generally releases a new version of Solidworks in the September/October time frame, while new versions of Nastran In-CAD have come out in the March/April time frame. Because development are not able to code Nastran In-CAD around the unknowns of a future version from Dassault, we generally will not support the new version of Solidworks until the following full version year release of Nastran In-CAD.
Regards,
Andrew
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Has there been any progress on integrating Nastran In-Cad with SW 2017?
I just upgraded to SW2017 and In-Cad is not available in the add-ins. I tried running both repair and reinstall without success.
I don't think so: I guess you need to wait for NINCAD 2018, in a 2-3 months
Hi @steve,
We have not yet made an update to the software to allow it to work with Solidworks 2017. Traditionally due to the work required to support the new version of Solidworks, the update has come with our annual new version year, which has historically been in the March-April time frame. Although I can't give an official estimate of when Nastran In-CAD 2018 will be released.
Best Regards,
Andrew
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Hi Andrew,
Thanks for the reply.
I certainly hope that we have a solution soon. As you now, there's no round trip in SW to earlier versions so I'll be without analysis for 6 months every year until this is solved. That's a tough pill to swallow. My other add-ins like HSM continue to work fine through version updates.
Steve
I'll throw in my two cents too. As a soon-to-be-displaced Simulation Mechanical user and a heavy Solidworks user, I'm shopping for a replacement FEA program. Nastran In-CAD is top of my list. BUT, I could not EVER be shut out of my FEA package because a client was on, say, Solidworks 2017 and my In-CAD only worked with Solidworks 2016. With SimMech (or any stand-alone pkg) I can deal with file incompatabilities via standard exports (STEP, IGES, etc.) It would totally defeat the purpose of an embedded FEA like In-CAD to have to export from Swx2017 to STEP and then re-import into Swx2016, not to mention the hassle of having to have both Swx2017 and Swx2016 installed.
According to the read me page for InCAD 2018,
Hi
What about the compatibility in the down sense : suppose a company is moving from a SW version to the other very 3 versions.
With a given release, will this one be able to use the SW version wich is 2 or 3 years before ?
Thanks
This is the compatibility list (help online)
1) NINCAD2018: SW2016+ and SW2017+
2) NINCAD2017: SW2015SP1+ and SW2016
3) NINCAD2016SAP: SW2014SP1+ and SW2015