1. Innovation Intelligence ® Section 2 File Import

2. Copyright © 2012 Altair Engineering, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential. All rights reserved. Overview SimLab reads the following file classification CAD files SimLab files Tessellation files Analysis input files SimLab uses translate option to convert the Catia file into Step or Parasolid and import it in SimLab.

3. Copyright © 2012 Altair Engineering, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential. All rights reserved. CAD File Import CAD Import SimLab supports direct CAD import for ProE and Parasolid geometry. No manual geometry cleanup required. No occurrence of CAD geometry translation error. For Other CAD systems, a conversion to Parasolid before meshing is recommended. When a CAD assembly is imported into SimLab, The parts in the assembly are displayed in the tree view.

4. Copyright © 2012 Altair Engineering, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential. All rights reserved. CAD files I-Deas part.idi Export to part.xpk Export to part.x_t (Parasolid format) Parasolid Part.x_t Part.xmt_txt Part.x_b Part.xpk ProE (Creo is supported) Part.prt Part.asm Step Part.stp Part.step CAD File Import

5. Copyright © 2012 Altair Engineering, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential. All rights reserved. Translate Translate option is used to convert, 1.CATIA models to STEP and Parasolid. 2.STEP models to Parasolid.

6. Copyright © 2012 Altair Engineering, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential. All rights reserved. SimLab Files SimLab database SimLab has own database format with.slb as extension. (Example: Sample.slb) It is a binary file. A database can be imported into another database. This will store all the information present in the current database. Graphics Data file This is another format of saving the database with.gda as extension. (Example:Sample.gda) It is a binary file contains geometry and mesh data with topology. It writes only the nodal and element information.

7. Copyright © 2012 Altair Engineering, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential. All rights reserved. Tessellation Files STL This contains geometry with collection of disconnected tri elements. VRML This has faces/edges and some topology information to reconstruct solid brep models. SimLab create features for cylinders and cones during import.

8. Copyright © 2012 Altair Engineering, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential. All rights reserved. Analysis Files Analysis files Abaqus Nastran OptiStruct Permas Patran Marc Ansys AdventureCluster

9. Copyright © 2012 Altair Engineering, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential. All rights reserved. Saving a database When “Ctrl + S” is pressed, the current data base will be saved. Pressing “Ctrl+S” for the second time will save the database with extension *.slb.1/*.slb.2 and so on.. keeping the first saved data base untouched. “File | Save As” is used to save the database in a new name.