About LAPCAD Engineering
LAPCAD was first introduced at a conference in Pasadena, in the spring of 1988. It initially functioned
as a finite element preprocessor on the Macintosh.
Since then, this product has been expanded to include post processing. Support for NASTRAN has
also been added, and in 1991 the first release running on Microsoft’s Windows 3 was introduced.
The product has been enhanced through the years, and currently runs on Macintosh OS9.1, Windows 2000, XP, Vista and 7.
LAPCAD Engineering was founded in 1988.
LapFEA
This integrated product is a combination of the LAPCAD modeler described below, and a finite
element solver. This solver supports linear static analysis, modal frequency analysis, and limited
frequency and transcient response analysis.
This combination also provides step-wise nonlinear geometry capability.