innovation intelligence ® section 1 user interface and layout
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Innovation Intelligence®
Section 1User Interface and Layout
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Window Layout
Selection List
Display window
Output Window
Assembly tree view to display model,LBC etc.
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Assembly Model
Assembly window has various tree views. Each
window organize different controls.
Meshing a CAD model will generate a new model
and the meshed bodies will be present under that
model.
Rigid bodies, bar bodies and wire bodies are also
listed here.
Assembly Tree View
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Process Control
This tab is to display the mesh controls and set
controls created.
Preserve entities controls, Local mesh controls
and Mesh pattern controls are listed under mesh
control.
Node sets and element sets are listed under set
control.
User can modify the controls by double click on
the mesh or set control.
Right click on the mesh control lists the show, hide
and empty option. This will show or hide the
selected mesh control entities.
Assembly Tree View
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Loads
Loads and boundary conditions, Sets and
Automation objects are displayed in this tree view.
Static loads, Thermal loads, Constraints,
Connections, Interactions and contacts are grouped
and displayed under LBC tree view.
Nodes and Element sets are displayed under set.
Bolt head, Bolt thread, Bar pretension, Solid
pretension etc, are listed under automation objects.
User can modify the loads by double click on the
LBC.
Assembly Tree View
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Materials
Materials, Properties and Field tables created are
displayed under materials tree.
Groups
Groups of same type of entities are listed here.
SimLab supports Face, Edge, Vertex, Element,
Element edge (Bar) and Node group.
Assembly Tree View
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Results
This displays available results in the analysis results file.
These results are separated under each load case (Steps) / time steps / iteration /
modes.
Assembly Tree View
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The selected (Picked) entities are listed in the
Selection list window.
This will help user to find the picked entities and
correct it before using them in any dialog box or
application.
There are three options to clear the selected
entities list, 1) Deselect all button clears all the
items in the selected list. 2) Deselect geometry
button clears only the geometrical entities. 3)
Deselect FEM clears only the FEM entities.
Each item in list can also be selected and deleted
using the delete key.
Deselect all
Deselect geometry
Deselect FEM
Selection Window
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Output window is used to display information and error messages.
Value displayed in this window can be cut and pasted in any dialog.
Output Window
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Before you pick an entity, Select the entity to be picked from the selection Bar.
Example: If you need to pick a Face on a body, select the third button (Face) in
the selection filter toolbar, followed by a left button click on the graphics
screen. When you move the mouse over body, entities will highlight and after
picking they will highlight in a contrast color.
Vertex Edge Face Body Node Element Edge Bar Element Element
Loads Rigid Elements (RBE) Co-ordinate System RBAR
Selection Filter Toolbar
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Single - Picking a Single entity (default).
Rectangle - Use the left mouse button to drag and create a box to
pick all the enclosed entities.
Polygon - Use the left mouse button, create line segments to
create a polygon and close the polygon near the first
point.
Intersection - Use left mouse button to drag and create a line
segment. The line which passes through the entity will
be picked. (This is only for element and edges).
Single + Rect - Both single and rectangular picking can be done.
Enclosed - This works same as rectangle, but only the fully
enclosed items will be picked.
View Setting Toolbar
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View Setting Toolbar
• Visible - This is also similar to rectangle picking but
only the visible items will be picked.
• Pick Through Transparency - This option will select the non transparent
face through the transparent face.
• Deselect Only - This will deselect the selected entities, if this
flag is ON, then the selected entities will
be deselected corresponding to the
selection filter behavior
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Rotation Center (M) :
To change the rotation center of the model by clicking the rotation center button and picking
a node / element (FEM geometry model) or picking edge / vertex / face (CAD geometry
model), to move the default rotation center to the center of the picked entity.
Zoom (Z) :
Use the left mouse button to create rectangular area of interest, it will display the zoomed
view of desired area to the full screen.
Scribble Zoom (Shft + Z ) :
This option enables free hand scribbling to zoom the area of your interest by just doing a
scribble on the desired area.
Reset View (F) :
This option brings back the whole model to the view area.
View Setting Toolbar
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Add/Remove Layers :-
• Added option to display one layer of adjacent faces/elements for
each click. In the same way user can remove one layer of
faces/elements.
Capture Image :
To take a screen shot of display window by changing the
background and gradient settings.
These colour settings are applicable only for capturing images.
Delete Entities :
To delete the selected entities.
View Setting Toolbar
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Visibility Filter :
CAD Model - To display the geometry model in display
window.
FEM Model - This toggle automatically turned on if FEM
model is present in the
display window.
Load - To show the entire load marker in display
window.
Mesh Control - To display all the mesh control present in the
display window.
Results - To display the result visibility.
Explode - Assembly model shows each component of the
model separated from other
components.
View Setting Toolbar
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Render Mode :
SimLab provides separate rendering options for CAD and FEM
models.
CAD Model
Shaded - It displays the model with colour shading.
Wire Frame - It displays only the face edge of the model.
Face Edge - This will highlight all the face edge in the
model.
Fast Rotate - Hides the shaded display while rotating the
model. Only
the face edge will display while
rotating the model. This will improve
rotation performance for large models.
View Setting Toolbar
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View Setting Toolbar
Shaded - To display the model with colour
shading.
Wire Frame - To display only the edges and
element edges of the model.
Rotate With Edges - Face edges and element edges are
displayed during rotation.
Rotate with LBC's - This will display the load marker during rotation.
Face Edge - To turn on / off of the face edges present in the model.
Element Edges - To turn on / off the element edges present in the model.
Quadratic Element - This will display the exact mid node position
of the higher order elements.
Free Edge Boundary - It displays only the free edges without displaying the layers.
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View Creation
To set the standard view for the model.
Also customized view can be saved and stored.
Show Tool
Used to measure the distance, angle and radius.
To find entities based on region / feature.
To find element and node normal.
To check the nodes and elements count.
Labels
To highlight the nodes and elements id.
View Setting Toolbar
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Create Group
Entities of unique type like face, edge, vertex, element, element
edge and node can be grouped together by assigning a name.
This group can be used to apply mesh controls, LBC. Applying
mesh controls and LBC using group will take all the entities
belonging to that group.
Transfer Group
Group information in CAD bodies can also be transferred to
FEM bodies.
Transfer of group is based on CAD ids of entities.
View Setting Toolbar
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Search Toolbar
To show the entities with desired ids in display window.
If the searched entities are found, it will be added in the
selection list and displayed in graphics window.
Search Toolbar
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F - Fit View
M - Rotation Center
R - Rectangle Pick
C - Cylinder / Circle Filter
P - Polygon Pick
F5 - Redisplay
Home - Reset
Z - Rectangle Zoom
Shft + Z - Scribble Zoom
Ctrl + N - New Window
Ctrl + O - File Open
Ctrl + S - File Save
Ctrl + R - Remove Last Picked Entity
Ctrl + A - Select all the entity
Ctrl + Z - Undo
Ctrl + Y - Redo
Shortcut Keys
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Left Button Click - Selection of geometry, elements, nodes.
Right Button Click - Panning (Movement of model).
Ctrl Key + Left Button - Zoom in and out.
Roll on the Mouse - Zoom in and out.
Middle Button Click - Model Rotation.
Mouse Manipulation