The software is distributed world wide by a number of BETA CAE Systems subsidiaries and business agents.
In the United States, it is distributed by Beta CAE Systems, USA, based in Farmington Hills, Michigan.
ANSA maintains the association between computer-aided engineering geometry and the finite element mesh.
[citation needed] This means that the finite element meshes are better representations of their geometric parents.
[citation needed] ANSA initially stood for 'automatic net generation for structural analysis', but the software has gone beyond that very quickly.