Innovation Intelligence ® Section 1 User Interface and Layout

Copyright © 2012 Altair Engineering, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential. All rights reserved. Window Layout Selection List Display window Output Window Assembly tree view to display model,LBC etc.

Copyright © 2012 Altair Engineering, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential. All rights reserved. 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

Copyright © 2012 Altair Engineering, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential. All rights reserved. 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

Copyright © 2012 Altair Engineering, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential. All rights reserved. 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

Copyright © 2012 Altair Engineering, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential. All rights reserved. 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

Copyright © 2012 Altair Engineering, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential. All rights reserved. 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

Copyright © 2012 Altair Engineering, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential. All rights reserved. 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

Copyright © 2012 Altair Engineering, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential. All rights reserved. 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

Copyright © 2012 Altair Engineering, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential. All rights reserved. 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 EdgeFaceBodyNode Element Edge Bar Element Element Loads Rigid Elements (RBE)Co-ordinate System RBAR Selection Filter Toolbar

Copyright © 2012 Altair Engineering, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential. All rights reserved. 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

Copyright © 2012 Altair Engineering, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential. All rights reserved. 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

Copyright © 2012 Altair Engineering, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential. All rights reserved. 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

Copyright © 2012 Altair Engineering, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential. All rights reserved. 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

Copyright © 2012 Altair Engineering, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential. All rights reserved. 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

Copyright © 2012 Altair Engineering, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential. All rights reserved. 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

Copyright © 2012 Altair Engineering, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential. All rights reserved. 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.

Copyright © 2012 Altair Engineering, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential. All rights reserved. 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

Copyright © 2012 Altair Engineering, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential. All rights reserved. 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

Copyright © 2012 Altair Engineering, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential. All rights reserved. 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

Copyright © 2012 Altair Engineering, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential. All rights reserved. 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

Copyright © 2012 Altair Engineering, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential. All rights reserved. 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