Browsers provide a structured view of model data, which you can use to review, modify, create, and manage
the contents of a model. In addition to visualization, browsers offer features like search, filtering, and sorting,
which enhance your ability to navigate and interact with the model data.
FE geometry is topology on top of mesh, meaning CAD and mesh exist as a single entity. The purpose of FE geometry
is to add vertices, edges, surfaces, and solids on FE models which have no CAD geometry.
Tools and workflows that are dedicated to rapidly creating new parts for specific use cases, or amending existing
parts. The current capabilities are focused on stiffening parts.
Use PhysicsAI to build fast predictive models from CAE data. PhysicsAI can be trained on data with any physics or
remeshing and without design variables.
Open animation files, measure various distances and angles between entities, and use the Results Browser to view the model structure and find, display, and edit entities.
After a contour plot has been applied in the Contour panel, the Cache feature will become active and allow you to add
the currently active contour result to an internal cache.
The averaging options allow you to limit the averaging of results to only a group of elements that are considered to be
bound by same feature angle or face.
The fatigue manager allows you to write stress and strain results from a finite element analysis to an external file that
can be used to set up a fatigue analysis.
The fatigue configuration file is a user-defined external ASCII-file through which the data groups from results of static/modal/transient analysis of different solvers can be read.
Create and edit user-defined data type expressions, derived load cases, and systems. You can also plot a forming limit
diagram, generate streamlines, track entities during animation, and create and import/export sets of entities.
Query entities, create or edit free body diagrams, construct multiple curves and plots from a single result file, and
create and plot stress linearization.
Explore, organize and manage your personal data, collaborate in teams, and connect to other data sources, such as
corporate PLM systems to access CAD data or publish simulation data.
The Value filter available in the Contour panel allows you to specify threshold
criteria for processing results only in a specific range.
The Value filter discards any values not meeting the specified
criteria. There are three possible modes to specify a criteria: greater than or equal to (>=),
less than or equal to (<=), or a Range. The results will be displayed on entities (like
nodes, elements, or systems) only when the value criteria is met. By default, no filter is
applied (None). The Value filter is similar to that of an iso surface when processing results,
with the difference being that no result is shown for the entities that do not meet the
criteria (instead of removing those entities from display). The Value filter can be a useful
tool for isolating the 'hotspot' areas. Using this filter along with the Count aggregation
mode, allows you to count the number of layers meeting a certain criteria (for example,
counting the number of plies exceeding a failure index).
The Value filter options (located in the middle of the panel) include:
Mode
Select an option from the drop-down menu:
None (*default setting)
<= (less than or equal to)
>= (greater than or equal to)
Range
Value
Use the field(s) to specify a numerical value or range of values.
Any entities (nodes/elements/parts/systems) that have values outside of the
filter parameters will be displayed as gray in the graphics area.
The Value filter options can be used in conjunction with the Count and Layer
filter, in order to determine which layers/plies are failing or exceeding certain threshold
criteria.
The tables below illustrate how the various Value filter and Layer filter
options work together:
All layers are included in the count and other calculations (Max, Min,
etc.).
Only the layers which are less than or equal to 0.4 (the Value filter setting) are
included in the count and other calculations (Max, Min, etc.).
Only the layers which are greater than or equal to 0.4 (the Value filter setting) are
included in the count and other calculations (Max, Min, etc.).
Only layers 1, 3, and 5 (selected using the Layer filter) which are greater than or
equal to 0.4 (the Value filter setting) and are included in the count and other calculations
(Max, Min, etc.).