1. Copyright © 2010 Altair Engineering, Inc. All rights reserved.Altair Proprietary and Confidential Information Section 18 Set Creation & Solver Interface

2. Copyright © 2010 Altair Engineering, Inc. All rights reserved.Altair Proprietary and Confidential Information Eight types of sets can be created. Nodes – Nodes are grouped as a set. Shell Elem – Shell elements are grouped as a set. Solid Elem Face – The visible face of the solid elements are grouped as a set. Solid Elem Layer – Solid elements are grouped as a set. RBE – Rigid Bar Elements are grouped as a set Sets Creation

3. Copyright © 2010 Altair Engineering, Inc. All rights reserved.Altair Proprietary and Confidential Information Sets Creation Analysis Coordinate – This option is used to group nodes based on a local coordinate system. It is specific for Nastran. Membrane Element – This option is used to create membrane element sets for Abaqus. These sets can be created from volume mesh bodies. Nastran ASET – This option is used to create Nastran ASET / ASET1

4. Copyright © 2010 Altair Engineering, Inc. All rights reserved.Altair Proprietary and Confidential Information Sets Creation Node / Shell element / Solid element sets can be created from contact pairs. Contact pairs between the selected Master and Slave bodies within the specified tolerance will be found out and sets will be created. Sets can be transferred from source to destination body based on CAD ID (or) Persistent ID.

5. Copyright © 2010 Altair Engineering, Inc. All rights reserved.Altair Proprietary and Confidential Information Solver Interface

6. Copyright © 2010 Altair Engineering, Inc. All rights reserved.Altair Proprietary and Confidential Information Supported Solvers Abaqus Nastran Permas Ansys Marc Beasy CAEFEM

7. Copyright © 2010 Altair Engineering, Inc. All rights reserved.Altair Proprietary and Confidential Information Abaqus Support Analysis – Linear Static, Non-Linear, Normal Mode, Explicit, Steady State Heat Transfer. Shell and Solid Elements for Structural and Thermal Analysis. Beam, Membrane, Connector, Mass, Spring Elements Pressure, Force, Motion, Body Force Temperature, Flux, Convection Constraints - *Boundary, Equation Constraint. Contact Definition. Sets. Thread Pretension. Gasket Elements, Gasket Loading and UnLoading curves. Materials, Stress-Strain-Temperature curve. Load Steps

8. Copyright © 2010 Altair Engineering, Inc. All rights reserved.Altair Proprietary and Confidential Information Nastran Support Analysis – Linear Static, Normal Mode, Thermal 1D Elements (CBAR,PBAR,PBEAM), 2D Elements, 3D Elements. Rigid Elements (RBE2, RBE3,RBAR), Bush Element, Mass Element, Scalar Element. Pressure, Force, Gravity Single Point and Multi Point Constraints Cyclic Symmetry Sub Cases Single/Double precision support Material and Property definitions with comment cards.

9. Copyright © 2010 Altair Engineering, Inc. All rights reserved.Altair Proprietary and Confidential Information Permas Support Analysis – Linear, Non-Linear, Normal Mode, Steady State. Membrane, Solid, Beam, Shell, Gasket, Spring, Mass Elements. Surface and Node contact definition. Thread Pretension Pressure, Concentrated Loads, Constraints, MPC. Material and Property definition. Load History definition(NLLOAD)

10. Copyright © 2010 Altair Engineering, Inc. All rights reserved.Altair Proprietary and Confidential Information Shell, Solid and Beam Elements. MESH200 Element support. Pressure, Force, Body Force, Constraints. Contact Elements (TARGE170, CONTA173, CONTA174) and respective Real Constants. Mass Elements, CERIG, RBE3. Temperature, Flux and Convection. Pretension section Material and Property. Ansys Support

11. Copyright © 2010 Altair Engineering, Inc. All rights reserved.Altair Proprietary and Confidential Information Export This dialog allows to export the model to relevant solver for analysis. Solvers can be spawned directly from SimLab and the analysis results are loaded into SimLab. Output requests can be specified. Node and Elements Ids can be written either in ascending or descending order.