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Quick Start Guide

of midas NFX
This guide is made for non-experienced
FEA users. It provides basic knowledge
needed to run midas NFX successfully
and start quickly the analysis.
Experienced FEA can also use this
guide to get used to NFX workflow.

TABLE OF CONTENTS:
About FEA analysis.1
Designer and analyst mode ...........2

Import a CAD Model ...3


Simplify your model .......4

materials ......5
Contacts....6
Boundary conditions...7
Loads.8
Meshing.....9
Choose analysis and solve...10
View results......11

What is Finite Element


Method?
Node

Element

Physical Model

Finite Element Model

Node and Element

Finite element method is an approximate method. It is used


when things gets too complex and theoretical solutions can
not be easily obtained.

Firstly it divides the target object into a large but finite


number of elements that we can control. Then it calculates
properties of each individual elements . And finally the
properties of the entire object is obtained by combining all
the elements together.

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Designer and Analyst


Modes

Depending on your FEA experience, midas NFX provides 2


different working modes: Designer Mode and Analyst Mode
Designer Mode
Designer-oriented interface
and automated functions
which helps designers to
analyze 3D CAD model simply
and quickly.

Analyst Mode
Provides all the advanced
tools needed by FEA
professional analysts
(1D,2D,3D Geometry
Modeling, Manual Meshing)

You can easily switch


between 2 modes at the upright corner

Designer Mode

Analyst Mode

midas NFX (Analyst Mode)

Switch between 2 modes

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Import a CAD model

While importing a CAD model to NFX, pay attention to 2


points:
1. Select the right type of CAD model before importing.
2. Make sure that the length unit is identical to the CAD
model.

1. Here to choose the file type

2. Here to check the length unit

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Simplify Your Model

Original CAD models usually contains small details(small


fillets, edges, holes, surfaces) .
Contrary to what one might believe, these details have
absolute no benefits in the simulation. Instead, they lead to
inaccurate FEA model or models with too many meshes.

Therefore, to perform faster and more accurate simulation,


simplification work on the CAD model is often necessary.
NFX provides automatic tools to simplify your model and
get it ready for analyzing faster.

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Materials

Materials can be divided into linear and nonlinear (elastoplastic, hyper-elastic, temperature dependant) materials.
Materials can also be isotropic, orthotropic or anisotropic.

To perform simple analysis on linear materials, only 3 basic


constants are required: elastic modulus, poisson's ratio and
mass density.
Midas NFX integrates a database of over 1000 materials.
Choose linearity

3 basic constants
Select from material database

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Contacts

By linking nodes of different mesh sets (mechanical parts),


contacts are necessary when analyzing a mechanical
Assembly.

Contacts are divided into linear (welded, sliding) and nonlinear


(general, rough, breaking-weld) contacts.
midas NFX provides auto-contact assignment which detects
and assigns automatically contacts of a mechanical assembly.
A singularity error may appear during the solving phase if
contacts are badly assigned or overlooked.

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Boundary Conditions

Boundary conditions fix the degrees of freedom (DOF) of the


assembly. They can be applied on parts, surfaces, edges,
points or nodes.

In static analysis all DOFs need to be removed. If a free


translation or rotation is presented in the model, singularity
error will occur during the solving phase.

Boundary Menu
(Designer Mode)

Boundary Menu
(Analyst Mode)
Basic Method

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User Defined Method

Loads

Loads can be divided into static, dynamic and heat load.


The choice of the type of load depends on the analysis to
perform. midas NFX provides easy way to choose and assign
loads to your model.
Static Loads

Dynamic Loads

Heat Loads

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Meshing

Meshing is the most important step in FEA model creation.


Mesh quality directly effects quality and efficiency of the
analysis: too big or deformed meshes will cause the
inaccuracy of the results. And too small meshes will double the
calculation time.
In midas NFX meshing can be done either automatically or
manually depending on the quality requirements.
In Analyst Mode, mesh quality can be checked with some
criteria such as aspect ratio to assure the mesh quality.
Auto -mesh

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Check mesh quality

10 Analysis Type and Solver


After preparing your FEA model. Its ready to pass to the
solving phase.
midas NFX provides various analysis types (linear/ nonlinear/
dynamics/ CFD) in one interface. You can choose the right
one easily in analysis case setting window.

The solver is the part of the software that takes the data
entered in the interface as an input to run finite element
numerical algorithms and calculate the output.

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11 View results
At last it comes to the phase to view the analysis results.
This task is charged by post-processor of the software.
Visualizing and interpreting the results in a good way is as
important as calculating the results themselves.
Various options and tools are proposed in midas NFX to
extract the correct analysis data.

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Now you are


ready to go !
Please contact us if you have any question
during your trial:
Email: Info@MidasUser.com
Telephone: +82-31-789-4040

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