Engineering Technology Associates, Inc.

VPG's PrePost delivers the tools needed to enhance your modeling productivity and meet the demands of the "faster, leaner" product development process.  Building on an efficient framework, VPG/PrePost is the price/performance leader. Through the "zero text editing" environment of eta/VPG,  all of the capabilities within LS-DYNA, NASTRAN, RADIOSS and PAM-CRASH are easily accessible through the user interface. Use eta/VPG’s advanced modeling tools to create complex finite element models with ease.  Included is an advanced toolset, excellent automeshing tools, automated spotweld generation all in a zero text editing environment.

Complete Meshing & FE Model Assembly Toolset

• CAD data interfaces with UG, CATIA, Pro/E, IGES, VDA
• Advanced auto-meshing and auto-welding features
• Complete interfaces with LS-DYNA, Nastran, MD/Nastran, Radioss, PAMCRASH and ABAQUS solvers                                               

• Mesh refinement via mouse clicks
• Rearrangement of nodes in failed elements
• Simultaneously Checks Warpage, Taper, Jacobian, Interior Angles, Aspect Ratio, Element Size
• Penetration Checking & Repair
• Quality Statistics

• Automatically repairs any surface gaps/overlaps
• No user intervention or preparation of surface data

• Generate hundreds of thousands of elements in minutes
• Reliable, proven results
• Basic hex and tetra meshing capabilities
• Supports 4 or 10 noded tetra elements and 8 or 20 noded hex elements

Complete Material Library

• Allows the user to select from a variety of materials

• Uses an efficient one step metal forming analysis to predict sheet metal thinning based on final part shape
• Visualize and map predicted thickness profile onto FE mesh to approximately account for manufacturing effects without performing complete metal-forming analysis