Optimizing and accelerating aircraft design and stress analysis with MSC Apex and DFC software

By coupling MSC Apex with the DFC software from Accentus Aero, engineers were able to build a link between CAD designs and certification-ready stress reports.  MSC Apex emerged as the core tool for preparing analysis jobs for MSC Nastran. It provides a GUI to assign structural properties such as joint data and material, and to extract loads. DFC software was then used to generate the calculation files, analyze structures, and interpret results.