New features V4 SAMCEF Field

7th October 2003

New features SAMCEF Field

version 4

Claire HAMMERCourtaboeuf, October 7th 2003

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FRAMEWORKData Tree management improvement

Directory creation

Sort within the directory

Move by:• Move to• Mouse drag and

drop

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FRAMEWORK

User preference management

Choice of the default unit

Order of appearance

New unit introduction

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FRAMEWORK

Improvement of face selection with a table

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MODELER

Direct CATIA V4 and CATIA V5 interface (option)

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MODELER

Analysis tools for the geometry

Tolerance visualization Invalid geometrical entities visualization Non analytical geometrical entities visualization Small and thin faces visualization

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MODELER

Tools

Line division by one point Display of relative distances (DX, DY,DZ) Angle calculation between 2 edges or 3 points

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MODELER

Highligthing of the nootebook variables in the 3D viewer and the data tree

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MODELER

Scaling fonctionnality

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MODELER

Improvement of the shading

Texture aspect

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SUPER ELEMENTS

Creation

Choice of the analysis type : Creation Super Element Retained nodes selection in the Analysis Data Convertion in bacon file with .CSUP command Launch of ASEF or DYNAM Back up of a sfield file specific for super element

creation:• Geometry • Retained nodes + gravity center node• References to the calculation files (.sdb, .u18, ...)

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Importation of one or several super elements

SUPER ELEMENTSUtilisation

Choice of the analysis type : Linear Static, Implicit Non Linear, ...

Post treatment

Automatic numerotation of nodes and elements for super elements

Automatic creation of the.USUP command (files management)

Placement of the super elements and copy of the model

Coexistence of the super with classic geometry

Analysis data can be applied on geometrical entities or retained nodes

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SUPER ELEMENTS

Recovery

Automatic creation of a Sfield recovery file from the utilisation session

Opening of a new session with analysis type : Super Element Recovery

Conversion in bacon file with.RSUP Launch of the calculation Post treatment

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ANALYSIS DATA

BEHAVIOR

Composite thick shell One element in the thickness One laminate by element

The face of spreading must be the same than the extrusion mesh face

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ANALYSIS DATABEHAVIOR

Beam profils

Profiles library (from BACON) Profile visualization in the 3D viewer Post treatment : Maximum stress visualization

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ANALYSIS DATA

CONSTRAINT Addition of a new local axe

ASSEMBLY Spherical jointScrew Flexible sliderSlider along a lineRigid-flexible contact (.MDS) Distance sensor along a curve

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ANALYSIS DATAFor all the dialog box edition possibilities for support or data

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MESH

Mesh importation from PATRAN, ANSYS,IDEAS

Nodes and elements numerotation by object

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MESHMesh extrusion or revolution from 1D or 2D mesh

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Mesh projection from one face to a similar one

MESH

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Mesh by extrusion, translation or projection on « prismatic » solids

MESH

Available for the geometries imported or created in SAMCEF Field

Solid among which 2 opposite faces have the same number of edges

2 bases can contain holes

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MESH

Examples of meshed geometries

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MESH

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MESHImprovement of mesh visualization (shading color)

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SOLVER

Bacon file

Abbreviation creation for selection composed of one node or one point

One attribute by mesh object

Epilogue Back up of note book

parameters in the bacon file

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Treatment of the results available in SAMCEF

RESULTPerformance improvement for results loading SAMRES modification New file format *.fieldresults

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RESULT Display

Reaction and displacement visualization as vector

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RESULT Stress

Display of cross of constraints

Traction

Compression

Tensor listing

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RESULT

Display of the result as scalar/node/element

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MECANO and DYNAM

Display of rigid modes

RESULT

MECANO

Display of the codes 900* (from .VIF)

Rigid Modes Eigenvalues

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Listing

RESULT

Back up to Excel format

In the 3D viewer display of the location of node and element selected in the table

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Picture capture Improvement of picture

quality

RESULT

Change of the background color

User choice for the picture size