innovation intelligence ® section 1 user interface and layout

Innovation Intelligence®

Section 1User Interface and Layout

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Window Layout

Selection List

Display window

Output Window

Assembly tree view to display model,LBC etc.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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 Edge Face Body Node Element Edge Bar Element Element

Loads Rigid Elements (RBE) Co-ordinate System RBAR

Selection Filter Toolbar


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



• 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


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.



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.



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.



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.




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.


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.



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.



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


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


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

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