The morning of our Autodesk Nastran press briefing in Lake Oswego, Autodesk released this official announcement regarding the NEi Nastran purchase.

The company has officially purchased the NEi intellectual property including NEi Nastran engine, one of the industry’s relied upon non-linear analysis solvers. While this doesn’t really change a lot for Siemens FEMAP users licensing the NEi Nastran solver for example, it does put the solver direction and intelligence directly in Autodesk’s lap.

This has allowed them to add Autdesk Nastran 2015 to Simulation Mechanical already, and to offer a new product for Autodesk Inventor and D’assault SolidWorks users called Autodesk Nastran In-CAD.

Autodesk Nastran In-CAD - Inventor Overview

The press release offered the following statement from Ian Pendlebury, Senior Director of Simulation at Autodesk:

“Since 2005 Autodesk has been consistently adding new technology to its Simulation platform with the goal of building a comprehensive cloud-based portfolio that spans Finite Element Analysis, Computational Fluid Dynamics, plastics and composite solutions…Autodesk’s acquisition of NEi Software and the introduction of Autodesk Nastran and Autodesk Nastran In-CAD reinforce this long-term strategy to broaden our footprint in the mechanical simulation market as part of Autodesk’s Digital Prototyping toolset.”

After the press meeting this week, we were able to sit down with Autodesk and NEi’s executives and discuss the direction the company is taking and exactly how much of the NEi IP was purchased. Those details and more will follow this announcement.

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