| Key Functionalities
General
- Support of journaling
- Access all capabilities via VB Scripting
- Full integration with KnowledgeWare
Manual meshing
- Full support of spec – update paradigm:
- “Manual Mesh Part” feature used to group manual operations
- each manual meshing operation is captured in a feature
- advanced nodes and elements selection capabilities enable stability of selection during updates
- Meshing operations on nodes:
- creation by coordinates, by selection of an existing node or by transformation of existing nodes
- deletion of nodes
- modification of position by specifying new coordinates or by applying a transformation
- condensation on destination nodes
- Meshing operations on volume elements:
- creation by selection of nodes, by extrusion of element faces or by transformation of existing 3D elements
- deletion of elements
- split of hexahedrons
- No support of assembly of analysis
Semi-automatic meshing
- Three families of capabilities:
- mesh part operators used to modify the result of a 3D mesh part
- meshing by transformation of an existing 3D mesh (including symmetry)
- meshing by extrusion of an existing 2D mesh
- Very flexible input specifications:
- input mesh selection by mesh part, group, BRep or mechanical feature
- implicit geometry characteristics can be used (e.g. the axis of a cylindrical face)
- Supported transformations are translation, rotation, offset, along a curve and projection
- Mesh capture with a tolerance
- Uniform, arithmetic and geometric layer distributions
- Symmetric layers
Automatic hexahedron meshing
- Uses the fully automatic hexahedron mesher Kubrix
- The mesher takes as input data either a selection of geometries or a selection of triangular meshes
- The resulting mesh is associative to the input geometries and can be transparently used in GPS
- A local mesh size can be specified using a box
Requirements
CATIA V5 with one of:
- ME2 (Mechanical Engineering 2) Configuration
- MD2 (Mechanical Design 2) Configuration + GPS (Generative Part Structure Analysis) Product
- HD2 (Hybrid Design 2) Configuration + GPS (Generative Part Structure Analysis) Product
DPS products useful additions:
- CATUNV5 to have a Universal file format gateway
- FEM Utilities for CATIA to have manual meshing, numbering of FEA data and a NASTRAN or ANSYS gateway
CATIA V5 useful additions:
- EST (ELFINI Structural Analysis - for multiple load cases)
- FMD (Advanced meshing for solids)
- FMS (Advanced meshing for shells)
- GAS (Assembly structural analysis)
CATIA V5 releases supported: R16, R17
Minimum hardware and software requirements
- 2MB disk space for installation
- 500 MB minimum memory
- 1GB recommended memory
- Operating systems: Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows x64 Edition
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