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- You can adjust your LOOK AT POINT under VIEW SETUP to prevent your model from rotating out of screen when you
rotate your view point because LOOK AT POINT is the origin of your view rotation axis.
- Pressing the right mouse button in the workspace area generally brings up the last menu used.
- Graphics can be exported in bmp format.
- Avoid overlapping line segments and surfaces.
- LORENTZ allows you to launch particles with the effects of magnetic or electric fields.
- Use the parametric analysis function to optimize your design.
- The Quick Start Guides are an excellent way to learn the program basics.
- AMPERES works well for both Linear and Non-Linear Materials.
- Using the visibility on/off commands can aid in creating your model.
- LORENTZ E and M can be fully coupled for combined analysis.
- To setup a 3D workspace, map the corners of an imaginary rectangular volume encasing your model.
- Automatic Triangular elements provides an excellent distribution.
- Additional materials are available from your program directory.
- To make multiple copies of a geometry, select both Copy On, and Repeat Operation.
- Data can be outputted to Matlab, and spreadsheet programs for further analysis.
- Use Parametrics > Parameter Validate to check the range of motion in parametric analyses that involve displacements and/or rotations.
- In parametric analyses you can create parameters that are functions of the step number. Use the # symbol to represent the step number in your formula.
- You know you have a gap in your model when you select PULL command to pull a point and not all the segments connected to the point are highlighted.
- After setting environment variable PRO_COMM_MSG_EXE, remember to restart both ProENGINEER and INTEGRATED programs in order for the environment variable to take effect.
- You can close very small gaps when importing geometry to INTEGRATED's program by increasing the IMPORT PRECISION FACTOR.
- Make use of your CAD’s verification tools to verify your model before exporting to INTEGRATED's program.
- You may get better result by exporting geometry data as TRIMMED SURFACE instead as SOLID and model data as NURBS representation when exporting IGES file to IES program.
- Get continual use of your software by using batch or parametric mode to run unattended analysis over evening, holidays, or weekends.
- Use templates to save model setups you commonly use (unit system, materials, etc.).
- Our workshops provide you with both hands-on and theoretical instruction.
- Technical support is only a phone call or e-mail away.
- For complex 3D models, the visibility tools can make it much easier to see and select geometry.
- The most common geometry problem is physically incorrect connection of parts – especially overlapping segments or surfaces.
- Data can be output to text files for import into other software for extra analysis.
- For independent verification of results, compare with both BEM and FEM results on the same model.
- BEM solvers are generally easier to use and more robust than FEM solvers.
- Properly integrated software combines ease of use for both components and system level optimization.
- Presentations will be more impressive when they include animations obtained from parametric mode.
- Use parametric mode to gain design insight via model variations.
- Use a BEM (Boundary Element Method) solver for open region problems.
- Using symmetry or periodicity conditions, as appropriate, will greatly reduce computing time.