The analysis of a design, especially for a more complex product, system, or component, often requires building multiple simulation models. One model will be built for fatigue calculations, another for nonlinear analysis of strength, and yet another model for stiffness/noise, vibration and harshness (NVH) evaluation. Even though each model isn’t always built from scratch, typically the use of different solvers for each attribute requires that models need to be converted from one solver format to another. This practice is not only time consuming but frequently error prone resulting in an inefficient use of engineering time.