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.
The Solid Mesh Optimization tool can be used to improve the quality of a tetra, hexas, and second order meshes with
respect to several element criteria.
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.
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.
Use the Boolean tool to combine solids, subtract one
solid from another, detach solids, and find the intersection out of
the solids.
Note: FE geometry is not supported for these tools.
Use Parasolid
When you click the Boolean tool, you will have the option to either keep the common
interface or to use Parasolid.
This option is added to allow you to use the Parasolid geometric kernel for
performing boolean operations like combine, subtract, and intersect.
Key Differences
Here are some key differences between using classic and parasolid geometry.
When complex geometries are submitted for this operation, using the parasolid option
can return with partial success creating regions of the failure areas in the
Model Browser. The following image shows a few similar
regions as an example.
You can review problem areas and either fix or isolate them by trimming solids so
that the remaining solids can be successfully processed for the boolean
operation.
If the selected solid has a common interface to another solid that is not selected,
that solid is not considered using the parasolid option. For the classic geometry
engine the solid that interfaces with other unselected solids is still considered in
the boolean operation.
In the following example, the selected solid has a common interface to another solid
that is not selected. That solid is not considered using the parasolid option and
the common interface is removed by detaching these solids. For the classic geometry
engine, the solid that interfaces with the other solid, though not selected, is
still considered for the boolean operation.
Combine Solids
Use the Boolean: Combine tool to connect two or more solids together, retaining all of the material in both.
Subtract Solids
Use the Boolean: Subtract tool to carve out one set of solids from another set of solids.
Intersect Solids
Use the Boolean: Intersect tool to retain only the intersecting portions of two sets of solids.