Nonlinear Structural Analysis and Thermal Analysis
Enhanced Functionalities
- Controlling Parallel Execution
- Parallel processing is now supported. You can now specify the use of two
CPUs for jobs run from the Nonlinear Structural Analysis or Thermal Analysis
workbenches.
- Querying Values for a Results image
- You can now query, or “probe,” nodes and elements in your model or in a
results image to obtain information about your model or analysis. Thus, you
can collect nodes and elements of interest, examine them, and export them to
a text file or to a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet.
- Creating a Display Group
- You can now reframe the window around the contents of a particular display
group using the Reframe On option available in the contextual menu and
the Create Display Group dialog box.
- Improved Usability for Creating, Customizing, and Deleting
Analysis Jobs
- You can now create and customize analysis jobs directly from the
Job Monitor as well as delete analysis jobs directly
from the specification tree.
- Inserting a New Step Between Two Steps in a Structural analysis
case or in a Thermal Analysis case.
- You can now insert a new step between two existing steps in your Simulation
History by using the new Insert Step Below option.
- Data Mapping Options
- You can now import temperature data, pressure data, or heat flux data from
a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet (.xls*) or a text file
(.txt) into an analysis.
- Using Local Coordinate Systems
- You can now specify that the local coordinates created in the
Part Design workbench be transformed in the Nonlinear Structural Analysis workbench
for use as cylindrical or spherical coordinates.
- Importing Restraints
- You can now import a restraint feature or a restraint set from the Generative
Part Structural Analysis workbench into an analysis. The Imported Restraint
capability supports import of clamp, surface slider, ball joint, slider, pivot,
sliding pivot, user-defined restraints, and iso-static restraints.
- Importing Loads
- You can now import a load feature or a load set from the Generative Part
Structural Analysis workbench into an analysis. The Imported Load capability
supports import of pressure, distributed force, moment, bearing load, imported
force, imported moment, acceleration, rotational force, line force density,
surface force density, volume force density, and force density.
- Using Analysis Sensors in an Optimization Problem
- You can now use the Product Engineering Optimizer (PEO) workbench with Nonlinear
Structural Analysis and Thermal Analysis to optimize a desired analysis result.
- Creating a Solution Sensor
- You can now create global solution sensors in Nonlinear Structural Analysis
and Thermal Analysis. Global sensors are useful for creating parameters in Knowledgeware
formulas and for driving optimizations with Product Engineering Optimizer (PEO).
- Point Loads, Distributed Loads, and Load Densities
- Two new load types, distributed loads and load densities, are now available;
and the existing point load function has been enhanced (new Force Norm and Moment
Norm fields).