This is a one day, 8 hour course in engineering automation focusing on Femap API, VBA, COM, & Excel. You'll learn how to process engineering data faster and more consistently. The course leverages our 40+ years of FEA experience and use of Femap/Nastran to show you many of the tools and tricks we've learned to do our job faster, more repeatably, and more thoroughly.

Next Course: Los Angeles - Week of Jan 11 2025 - $1,095 Early Bird - $1,295 Regular

  Coffee and Pastries

  Morning

Demos - Model Builder, Joint Summary Tool, Solder QC, Parametric Build
Data Visualization
Data Processing
What to Automate and Why
Model QC Automation Demo
Object Oriented Programming
Option explicit, Femap object, programming IDE
Write a simple script
How to read the API manual
Read, write, parse data - data xfer and manipulation
Excel (tips and tactics and tricks)
dictionaries, arrays keyed index index match
speed - loops, excel parallel & multi-process functions & subroutines
GUI basics (femap)

 Afternoon

Engineering Tools Demo - How to Modify existing scripts
Write in Excel or write in Femap parallel processing
PHP and web based & best practices dev
Python and other languages
Mode Identification Demo
Com, what is it? AFGROW examples
Mathcad, Matlab, Perl, auto hot key
AI, Chat GPT and others
Group Based Capstone Projects (in class)

Happy Hour

 

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