1. Innovation Intelligence ® Section 4 Applications

2. Copyright © 2012 Altair Engineering, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential. All rights reserved. Geometry Applications | Geometry In Geometry workbench following are the functions available.

3. Copyright © 2012 Altair Engineering, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential. All rights reserved. This option is used to remove the floating vertex and merge the connected edges. vertices at which the feature angle less than or equal to the specified angle will get removed. Geometry | Vertex

4. Copyright © 2012 Altair Engineering, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential. All rights reserved. Geometry | Edge Create – To create edges and wire bodies from other geometrical entities. Merge – To merge two or more edges. Split Edges – To split an edge into number of edges. Project To Plane – To project an edge to the defined plane. Equivalence – To join two separate edges into a single edge. Chaining – Creating an edge from the collection of element edges to form as a chain. Show Adjacent – To display the edges corresponding to the given guide face and edge. Delete – To delete the Floating, Overlapping and Tiny edges Present in the body. Select connected– To display elements/faces connected to the selected edges. Imprint Edges on Face – Imprints edges or edge groups on the target faces or face groups. Imprint Edges on Edges – Imprints one or more edges on the target edges.

5. Copyright © 2012 Altair Engineering, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential. All rights reserved. Geometry | Face Create- To create faces. Merge- To merge two or more faces. Split faces- To split a face into number of faces. Break Faces- To break a face with respect to a node or vertex. Face equivalence - To equivalence nodes between two faces. Imprint Line- To imprint a line on a face. Imprint circle- To imprint circular edges on a face. Show Adjacent- To trace out the adjacent faces. Disconnect- To disconnect a face that is not continuous. Cap Cylinder- To close (capping) the opening of a cylinder and to create layers of caps along the axis.

6. Copyright © 2012 Altair Engineering, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential. All rights reserved. Geometry | Face Replace- To replace a face with another face. Remove Fillet- To remove fillet from the body. Change Fillet- To modify the existing fillet. Move- To move the faces from its parent body to another reference body. Show Connected- To identify the closed regions excluding the non-manifold regions. Make Congruent Face - To make one face identical to another face.

7. Copyright © 2012 Altair Engineering, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential. All rights reserved. Geometry | Face Face CleanUp Close Narrow Region- To extend the floating edge upto the boundary within the given tolerance value. Remove Tiny Faces- To display / merge the tiny edges within the given tolerance. Remove Thin Faces- To add mid line on the face and collapse the elements. This is mainly used to collapse thin faces on the ribs.

8. Copyright © 2012 Altair Engineering, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential. All rights reserved. Geometry | Body Create- To create a meshed body (Block, Cylinder etc.,) Merge- To merge two or more bodies. Show Internal faces- To show the shared faces that are within the body. Unmerge- To unmerge the merged bodies. Show Features- To identify the features like fillets, cylinders etc. Show edges- To display edges of given length. Remove face- To remove any faces like chamfers etc., Break- To break a body or a face. Disconnect- To disassemble the merged body. Boolean- To get the union or intersecting volumes in the bodies Edit Parasolid-This tool helps in removing the Holes and Fillets on Parasolid geometry. Drill Hole -Able to drill a hole through a hex meshed body using this option. Show Duplicate-This tool is used to identify the duplicated parts among the selected parts.

9. Copyright © 2012 Altair Engineering, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential. All rights reserved. Geometry | Model Create- To create an empty model. Merge- To merge two or more models. Show Bodies- To display bodies which are smaller than the given bounding box size. Sew Model- To stitch sheet bodies and make them as a single body. (for parasolid only). Imprint Model- To make imprint of one body on the other (for parasolid only). Transfer Body- To transfer one or more bodies from one model to another model. Merge RBE- To merge two or more RBEs from a single body. Compare-To compare the two models and display the difference and union in the entities.

10. Copyright © 2012 Altair Engineering, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential. All rights reserved. Applications | Meshing Mesh Control- For applying various local mesh control parameters. Surface Mesh- To mesh a body with surface elements. Local Re-mesh- To alter the existing meshed portion of the body. Free Edges- To identify the cracks. Element Intersection- To identify the overlapping elements. Auto cleanup- To Auto fill the cracks, holes in a body. Cleanup- Tools for manually cleaning a surface body. Volume Mesh- To create a mesh on a body with solid elements. Tools- Special functions (Axisymmetric meshing, Mesh Pattern, Penta layer, Layered element, Face offset, Project to CAD, Change Layers). Quality Check- To verify the quality of the elements.

11. Copyright © 2012 Altair Engineering, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential. All rights reserved. Applications | Assembly Extract Cylinder- To extract the perfect cylinder part from a cylindrical pipe. Align- To align the irregular geometrical entities. Join- To create congruent mesh between the parts. Separate- To separate the shared faces on a body. Share Entities- To display the shared faces or edges on a body. Body Union-To perform boolean operations between the bodies. Hex Bolt Align- To align a hex meshed bolt with the bolt hole.

12. Copyright © 2012 Altair Engineering, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential. All rights reserved. Node- To create, translate, equivalence and separate nodes. Element- To create and modify elements. Renumber- Used to Renumber Node, Element, LBC connection id's in a model. Transfer id's- Transfer Node id's and property from one body to another body. Node id's are transferred based on the co-ordinates. If nodes with same co-ordinates exists in both bodies then destination body node id will be changed to source body node id. Transfer Loads- Transfer loads and properties from one model to another and properties model based on both CAD and Persistent Id’s. Replace Body- To replace the existing body with new body. Export Nodes/- To write the Nodes and elements of the selected face. Elements Tools- Special functions (Thread removal, Logo Removal, create Rib, Symmetry plane, Set id, Calculate volume). Applications | FEM

13. Copyright © 2012 Altair Engineering, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential. All rights reserved. Applications | Analysis | Structural Co-Ordinate- To create local coordinates. Loads- To apply loads. Constraints- To apply constraints. Interaction- To define the surface behaviour between bodies. Contact- To establish the contact between bodies. Mass- To calculate the mass properties of a body. Global damping- To define the critical damping vs Frequency and global structural damping values. Connections- To create connectors, equations, RBEs. Sets- To create sets for various entities. Material- To define Material. Property- To assign Material properties to a body.

14. Copyright © 2012 Altair Engineering, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential. All rights reserved. Applications | Analysis | Structural Load Step/Sub Case- To create load sets using existing loads. Rename LBC- This tool is used to rename LBC objects. Set Master DOF- It is used to set master DOF (only for Ansys). Assign LCS - Used to assign Local co-ordinates system to selected graphics or FEM entity Nodes. Mapping - To map the Load/Results data from one mesh to another mesh. Export- To write out solver input file.

15. Copyright © 2012 Altair Engineering, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential. All rights reserved. Applications | Analysis | Thermal Initial temperature- To define the initial temperature on specified entities. Temperature- To define the temperature on the specified entities. Flux- To create surface heat flux load and to define surface based heat fluxes. Convection- To define surface heating/cooling due to convection by surrounding fluids. Heat source- To create heat source on the specified location. Thermal MPC- To define equation/MPC for thermal degree of freedom between nodes for faces. Interaction -To define the gap conductance as a function of conductance with respect to clearance or pressure, along with temperature data if required. Thermal Contact- To specify contact between bodies. Material- To define material property for a model. Property- To define properties for solids, shells, beam or bar, rigid elements. Load case- To organize loads and constraints created into Nastran load cases or Abaqus steps. Mapping- To map the Load/Results data from one mesh to another mesh. Export- To write out solver input.

16. Copyright © 2012 Altair Engineering, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential. All rights reserved. Applications | Results Import results- To import the results files. Select- To select the desired load sets from results file. Contour- To adjust the contour spectrum. Deformation- To set the deformed view for results. Animate- To see deflections in animations. XY Plot- To plot graphs between the nodes and results. Export results-To export the results for nodes and save them in the desired format. Tools-Special functions (Query results, Bore distortion, FRF, Show Min Max, Set display etc.).