Inventor Nastran

What do you like best?

First of all, the fact that it is open-source and completely available to anyone is what i like the most about it.

And other than that, one can define solvers specific to his/her problem.

What do you dislike?

The complex GUI coupled with low visual sims as compared to its competitors (Workbench, Hypermesh, etc)

The automesh function is not as good as that of Workbench

Recommendations to others considering the product:

If you have a good teacher for the software, its worth it. Or else you need to spend a lot of time figuring out the ins and outs of this software package

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

We used it for composite analysis of carbon fiber structures in our project