MG 2020-02-24

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Enhanced app: SIMULIA Process Composer

Engineering Document File Operation

You can now use the Upload and Download adapters to store and retrieve files within engineering documents.

Previously, you could only store and retrieve files within simulation documents.

Simulation Document Multi-Stage Lifecycle

You can now edit the multi-state lifecycle of documents created outside of a simulation.

These Simulation Documents now have a Simulation Document policy, where the document owner can access it and grant access to others based on the lifecycle state of the document. Simulation Documents are now available with the following lifecycle states: Private, In Process, Complete, Released, and Obsolete.

Enhanced app: SIMULIA Companion

Cloud Support for Simulation Companion

You can now use Simulation Companion on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform on the cloud

Enhanced app: SIMULIA Performance Study

Enhanced Job Monitoring widget to support multiple Simulation types

The current Job Monitor Widget only supports Jobs from Simulation processes. The new Job Monitor Widget will extend this capability to other types of Simulations such as, for example, Physics Simulation.

Renamed app

Results Analytics Essentials app renamed as Performance Trade-off

Enhanced app: SIMULIA Structural Model Creation

Feature Manager

The Scenario and Results tabs now remain available when you view the Feature Manager in Structural Model Creation.

Duplicate Finite Element Model

You can now copy the FEM from a part or subassembly to another part or subassembly in the same assembly.

Functional Structure Finite Element Models

You can now take advantage of the following enhancements to the Functional Structure FEM tool:

Where functional structures have beam members that intersect, imposed points are now added to the mesh specifications. This ensures that the beam mesh elements are connected at the intersections.
A new argument is available when using an action rule with the Functional Structure FEM command. You can now specify a distance tolerance for projected curves.

Templates for couplings, ties, and connectors

You can now use template files when defining couplings, ties, and connectors.

Connection Visualization Review

You can now view the selected supports separately from other features to verify that the connections are correct.

Editing Multiple Connections

You can now select multiple tie and fastener connections in the Connection Manager to edit common properties together.

Connection Enhancements

You can take advantage of several enhancements to connections and the Connection Manager.

You can now use connectors to connect couplings defined in the current FEM or to connect couplings defined in one or two child FEMs.
You can now use the Update Mesh command in the connection editors to update the mesh without exiting the dialog box.
In the Connection Manager, there is a new column showing the name of the template when it is used to define the connector behavior. You can use the context menu to reload parameters from the template if the template has been updated.

Visualize and Display Tools Reorganization

The Visualize section of the action bar has been renamed Display. Within the new Display section, the Cutting Plane tool has been renamed Sectioning. The Display section also includes visualization management controls, visibility controls, and the clipping box.

Diagnostic Viewer

The Diagnostic Viewer now checks that a valid mesh is associated with each support.

No Compression and No Tension Elasticity

You can now define elasticity behavior with a tensile response only, a compressive response only, or with full tensile and compressive response.

Functional Structure Finite Element Models

You can now create a meshing rule that includes the full set of mesh parameters for a functional structure.

Support for New Beam Profiles in the CATIA Structural Model Creation App

The following beam profiles are now supported when you create a finite element model for a functional structure: pipe, box, and channel.

Visualize and Display Tools Reorganization

The Visualize section of the action bar has been renamed Display.

Improvements to Edge Distribution

You can now place nodes on an edge more quickly and with greater flexibility using Availability, Multiselection, Reverse Direction, and other enhancements to edge distribution.

Support for Four Layers When Projecting Weld Curves

You can now select up to four layers when supporting seam welds between features.

Center in Tree

You can now recenter the tree on a selected finite element model by selecting Center in Tree from the context menu in the Contributing FEMs dialog box.

Multiselection of Bad and Poor Elements in the Quality Detailed Report

You can now multiselect bad and poor elements from the Quality Detailed Report to remove or edit them.

Partition Hex Mesher Enhancements

You can now control the meshing techniques assigned to selected volumes. You can refine the support of the mesh to include only a subset of the volumes for a given part. This is advantageous when you want to ignore small volumes that do not contribute significantly to the physical behavior and are difficult to mesh. It is also helpful when you want to mesh subsets of the part with completely independent mesh patterns.

Quality Detailed Report Multiselection of Elements

You can now multiselect bad and poor elements from the Quality Detailed Report to remove or edit them.

Surface Quadrangle Mesh Topology

New topology algorithms adhere more strictly to geometry guidelines, creating simpler and smaller domains.

No Compression and No Tension Elasticity

You can now define elasticity behavior with a tensile response only, with a compressive response only, or with full tensile and compressive response.

Support for Power Law and Time Power Law for the Creep and Viscous Material Options

Two new creep laws are now available for the creep and viscous material options: power law and time power law.

Import Nastran Model Data into a FEM Assembly

You can now import model data from a Nastran deck into a FEM assembly in a 3DEXPERIENCE simulation. Each assembled FEM representation corresponds to the files containing mesh data. To import data in this manner, you can select the Structure FEM representation by files option now available from the Import dialog box.

Import Support for Nastran Matrix Data

You can now import new types of Nastran matrix data as results in a 3DEXPERIENCE simulation. Several new data cards are now supported including CORD2S, DMIG, K2GG, PLOTEL, PSHEAR, and many others.

Improved Support for Import of Nastran Scenario Data

You can now import new types of Nastran scenario data into a 3DEXPERIENCE simulation including SET, DISP, ESE, FORCE, SPCFORCE, STRAIN, and STRESS and others

Enhanced app: SIMULIA Physics Simulation Review

Enhanced feature manager functionality

The Scenario and Results tabs now remain available when you view the Feature Manager in Structural Model Creation or Fluid Model Creation.

Requesting Shareable Licenses

You can now use shareable licenses to execute simulations. To activate shareable licenses, use Me > Preferences > General > Shareable Products.

Moving the Default Location of the Context Selector

The default location of the context selector has been moved from the left side of the action bar to the space immediately above the action bar. The new centered location provides more visibility to see and switch the active analysis case.

Enhanced app: Structural Scenario Creation

Requesting Shareable Licenses

You can now use shareable licenses to execute simulations.

Amplitudes with Total Time

You can now define an amplitude in terms of total time accumulated over all non-perturbation analysis steps.

Visualize and Display Tools Reorganization

No Compression and No Tension Elasticity

You can now define elasticity behavior with a tensile response only, a compressive response only, or with full tensile and compressive response.

Improved Diagnostic Capabilities for Durability Simulations

The app now offers better diagnostic messages that enable you to correct or fine-tune your durability simulations.

Handling of Stress/Strain Output Positions in Durability Simulations

For structural analyses that involve elastic behavior only, you can now perform a durability analysis using a mesh with elements that support stresses at interior integration points.

Improved Fatigue Loading Capabilities for Durability Simulations

Definition of a fatigue loading history has been enhanced including an optional time history or duration property and overlaid events and many other enhancements.

Enhanced app: SIMULIA Fluid Model Creation

Thermal Shells

For conjugate heat transfer simulations you can now use shell sections to model heat transfer in solid parts whose thickness is too small to be simulated using 3D elements. The heat flow in the normal direction to the shell assumes a linear temperature distribution, while the app solves the energy equation to compute the temperature distribution along the shell. Shell sections support isotropic, orthotropic, and anisotropic heat conductivities.

Feature Manager [Enhanced]

The Scenario and Results tabs now remain available when you view the Feature Manager in Fluid Model Creation.

Visualize and Display Tools Reorganization [Enhanced]

Enhanced app: SIMULIA Fluid Scenario Creation

Human Groups

You can now create human groups that you can use to categorize the humans included in a human comfort simulation.

Support for GPGPU Acceleration for Simulation Jobs

You can now use your computer’s graphics processor to run a simulation job.

Internal 3D Fans

You can now simulate the effects of three-dimensional internal fans in a simulation by ascribing fan behavior to 3D geometry in your model.

Stopping Criteria

For a steady-state flow step you can now define a greater variety of "stopping criteria," which are variable thresholds that, when reached, will prompt the app to terminate the analysis.

Thermal Resistance for Walls

You can now add thermal resistance at walls, enabling you to model a one-dimensional heat conduction across the wall with a finite thickness, in conjunction with other thermal boundary conditions.

Heat Generation in Porous Baffles

You can now add a heat source within a porous baffle, and you can specify heat source behavior by defining a uniform heat generation rate or by defining a constant heat flux.

Active Species Simulations

You can now define an "active" species simulation; that is, a multispecies simulation in which all the components in the simulation have an effect on the bulk flow.

Solid Energy Sub-cycling

For conjugate heat transfer simulations, you can now specify how often the app solves the solid energy equations for both transient and steady-state flow steps.

User-specified Time Step Evolution

For transient flow steps, you can specify the evolution of the time step throughout the simulation by scaling the initial time step with an amplitude that defines the variation desired.

Requesting Shareable Licenses

You can now use shareable licenses to execute simulations.

Amplitudes with Total Time

You can now define an amplitude in terms of total time accumulated over all non-perturbation analysis steps.

Visualize and Display Tools Reorganization

Enhanced app: SIMULIA Physics Results Explorer

Using Mirrors and Patterns to Display Results

You can now display results representing a repetitive portion of the model using mirroring and patterning techniques.

Copy and Paste of Results Features

You can now copy and paste results of features to the same analysis sequence or to a different analysis sequence. The name of each copied feature is appended with the label "Copy".

Reading X-Y Data Through the Thickness of a Shell

You can now read X-Y data from field output through the thickness of shell elements, composite shell elements, and continuum shell elements in your model. Displaying the change in field variables through the thickness of shell can provide helpful information about changes to field output within the thickness of the shells, particularly for composites that have different material thicknesses and orientation.

Create a Path Along a Geometric Edge

You can now create a path from one or more geometric edges that you select in the model. This is helpful when many nodes are present, because it can be time consuming to pick individual nodes to define a path. If the edge is meshed, all the nodes on that edge are automatically used in the path. If the edge is not meshed (for example, edges used to construct seam welds), you can specify how many points you want along that edge.

Tensor Component Display

You can now view vectors based on a single directional quantity as colored arrows in symbol plots. You can view a single tensor component (for example max principal) at a time, rather than all principal values and directions simultaneously.

New Codec for Saving Videos

You can now save videos with a new compression quality codec (compressor/decompressor for audio and video). The new codec, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC allows you to save files in MP4 format.

Modified Display of Units in Axis Labels

You can now modify the display for the X-axis and Y-axis by assigning units of measurement. All curves associated with the modified axis are then updated with the units.

Customizing Preferences on Plots and Legend

You can now specify global settings for any new plots you create.

Enhanced app: SIMULIA Plastic Injection

Simulation of Powder Metal Injection Molding

You can now simulate the filling and packing phases of products manufactured through the powder metal injection molding process (PIM).

Simulation of Thermoset Material Injection

You can now simulate injection of a thermoset material. To support simulation of thermoset material injection, the app now includes the following enhancements:

Material definition now supports two thermoset-related material properties. You can define Kamal curing behavior, and plastic viscosity now supports the Macosko viscosity model type.
When you use a thermoset material, you can now specify whether the app defines the length of the Fill/Pack phase based on the cure percentage of the material or based strictly on time.
Additional results plots are available for post-processing of thermoset injection simulations. You can plot the conversion percentage and the curing time, both at the end of the Fill and at the end of the Pack simulations.

Simulation of Valve Gates

You can now simulate the effects of valve gates in a hot runner system.

User Experience Enhancements

The app now includes the following improvements that enhance the user experience:

You can now assign materials to your model from the contextual toolbar.
The Process Settings dialog box now displays material assignments for all parts.
The Plastic flow simulations options now display material assignments for each injection order.
You can now plot the selected fill rate profile or pack pressure profile from the Plastic flow simulations options.
The default mesh size displayed in the Local Mesh Size dialog box is that of the part body selected rather than the plastic part body.
The diagnostic viewer now includes all of the dynamic advisor messages available in SOLIDWORKS Plastics.
When you display results, the app hides parts that do not have any results.
The results legend is now displayed in a vertical orientation by default, which provides more room for display of contour values.
The app automatically generates history plots (such as Clamp force and Flow rate) so that they are available to you immediately when you display the analysis results.
The Analysis results are now presented with the most commonly used results at the top of the list. For example, the Fill time plot is listed first for fill simulations, and the Total displacement plot is listed first for warp simulations.

Requesting Shareable Licenses

You can now use shareable licenses to execute simulations.

Visualize and Display Tools Reorganization

Other Simulation enhancements

Creation and Usage of Dashboards in an Engineering Workflow

This example guides you and your team through an engineering workflow using 3DDashboards to organize, enact, validate, and approve a design change on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform.

Analysis of Airflow through a Duct

This example guides you through creating and performing fluid dynamics simulations on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform.

Energy Computations in a Contact Analysis

This example guides you through using contact-related energy output variables and other meaningful energy output variables in a static nonlinear elastic, finite-sliding, frictional contact analysis.

Sequential Thermomechanical Analysis of a Laser Powder Bed Fusion Build

This example guides you through creating and performing thermomechanical simulations on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform.

Linear Dynamic Analysis of a Printed Circuit Board

This example guides you through creating and performing linear dynamic simulations on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform.

Conjugate Heat Transfer in a Fan-Cooled CPU Board

In this example, the inlet flow condition is now a fan boundary. In addition, the fluid mesh properties and results plots have been updated.