Educational Webinar: Why Your CAD Geometry Won’t Work for FEA and How to Fix It

Preparing CAD geometry for use in FEA is required for most structural analysis components.


Preparing CAD geometry for use in FEA is required for most structural analysis components.

But why is it that the CAD geometry is often missing the full information required for accurate loads, boundary conditions and mesh control?

In this webinar, author and professional FEA trainer, Tony Abbey will answer this question with real examples.

The key areas Tony will cover include:

  • Get the right idealization – beams or shells (vital in aerospace and many other industries)
  • The meshing objective – get good stresses with minimum element count
  • Tame that geometry – guide the loads and boundary conditions
  • Plan your results strategy – control contour and stress plotting

This webinar won’t rely on just the usual slide deck. Tony’s presentation will be supported by live demonstrations.
Tony will be back on April 10 for a follow-up webinar on Meshing Methods for FEA. You can sign up now.

About the Speaker:


Tony Abbey FRAeS
Tony is a Professional Structural Analyst who graduated from Imperial College, London with an MSc in Aeronautical Engineering. He has extensive experience in the aerospace and defense industry and in managing FEA support and training for MSC.Software and also NEi.Software, where he created a world class Femap team.

Tony is the founder of FETraining, a company that provides FEA training (including Femap based courses) and consultancy.

In 2017 he was honored as a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society.

This webinar is free to attend thanks to the sponsorship of Siemens Femap software. To watch for this webinar, please complete the form on the right.

PDH Certificates will not be provided for the recorded webinar.