Graphical User Interface

• Provides easy access for the "casual user," with short learning time   
• Point and click operation  
• Intuitively control view, rotate, zoom, & time  
• Easily learned due to object-oriented parts and features  
• Load data easily by double-click or "recently loaded" menu  
• Motif and Microsoft Windows standards  
• OpenGL graphicsGlobal and Part Attributes  
• Visibility of elements, lines or nodes  
• Transparency, color and lighting parameters  
• Line, hidden line and surface display  
• Line style and thickness
• Representation mode (3D, edge, feature angle)  
• Symmetry operations, mirroring  
• Variable threshold and element blanking
• Reduced polygon display

 

Customization

• No programming ability required
• Smart defaults based on data can be modified
• Define keyboard and/or mouse to match other CAE applications
• Configure preferences according to site and/or individual user
• Python throughout
• Even create your own user interface

 

Distribution and Documentation

• Easily install from CD, DVD, or web installer
• Complete documentation including: Getting Started, Installation, How-To, User, Command, and other manuals via Adobe Acrobat. Versions also available for purchase online.

 

Query 

• Node/element variable values
• Node/element labels
• Element connectivity
• Dataset summary
• Min/max values
• Distance between nodes

 

Plotting

• Extract plot data from probe position vs. time or along a line through the model space
• Animated plotting showing current time and dependent value
• Integrated view of plots and 3D geometry for superior appearance
• Control plotting and reuse layouts with common language and templates

 

Page Layout and Reports

• 16 independent and flexible viewports
• Solid, blended, inherited, or bitmap backgrounds
• Plots and geometry mixed or separated for superior presentation
• Annotation including dataset variables and constants
• Bitmap overlays or watermarks
• Multiple light sources position and intensity
• Flexible legends and variable color palettes
• TrueType Fonts and Internationalized Language Support

 

Animation

• Easy to use and professional quality
• Single record button for most movies
• Keyframe animation for ultimate flexibility such as part explosion, transparency animation, splined camera animation, and fly-around animation
• Viewport tracking to follow moving parts
• Streamline, Linear Load, Mode Shape, Plane Sweep, Isosurface and Transient Solution Animations
• Direct movie output to Animated GIF, AVI, EVO, FLV, MOV, and MPEG
• Direct image output to BMP, JPEG, PNG, PS, TIFF
• Video embedding w/time synching options
• Camera &  splines for walk through animations
• Movie titles and merging via EnVe
• 3D movie scene output: EnLiten, VRML, and stereo EVO movies
• Photorealistic movies via POV-Ray ray-tracing program

CFD Flow Feature Extraction

• Boundary Layer Parameters
• Vortices
• Shock Surfaces
• Surface Flows
• Flow Separation and Reattachment

 

Particle Tracing and Path Lines

• Interactive trace seeding from point, line, plane, part, or file
• Massed particle tracing with drag, buoyancy, gravity, viscosity, rebound, friction, etc.
• Oil-streak or Surface-restricted tracing
• Transient or steady-state tracing
• Parallel trace calculations for high performance
• Highly accurate trace calculation

 

Other Features

• Contours/Isosurfaces/Isovolumes
• Vector Arrows
• Elevated Surfaces/Profile Plots
• Data Probe
• Clipping and Cutting
• Developed or "Unrolled" Surfaces
• Material Species Extraction
• A/B Simulation Comparison
• Displacements
• Tensor Glyphs
• Offset Parts
• Subset Parts and Part Groups

 

Multi-physics and Fluid-Structure Interaction (FSI)

• Read multiple cases from different solvers simultaneously to combine CFD data with FEA data for FSI post-processing, or FEA data with rigid-body dynamics data
• Offset timelines to synchronize multiple datasets
• Map results from one solution onto another solution, even another grid, and compare values

 

CFD Input Interfaces

• ACCUSOLVE
• ANSYS/FLOTRAN
• CFD++
• CFF
• CFX
• CGNS
• COBALT
• CRAFT/ CRUNCH
• DTF
• ESPERANZA
• ESTET
• FAST
• FIDAP
• FIRE
• FLOW-3D
• FLUENT
• FOAM
• GASP/GUST
• FV-UNS
• KIVA
• LEWICE
• N3S
• OVERFLOW-2
• PAM-FLOW
• POLY2D/POLY3D
• POLYFLOW
• POWERFLOW
• SC-TETRA
• SPLITFLOW
• STAR-CD
• TASCFLOW
• TECPLOT
• TETRUSS
• USM3D
• VECTIS
• WIND

FEA Input Interfaces

• ABAQUS EXPLICIT
• ABAQUS STANDARD
• ANSYS
• I-DEAS
• LS-DYNA
• MSC.ADAMS
• MSC.DYTRAN
• MSC.MARC
• MSC.NASTRAN
• MSC.NASTRAN input file
• MSC.PATRAN
• PERMAS
• RADIOSS

 

Other Input Interfaces

• ANALYZE/NIFTI-1
• CTH
• EXODUS
• HDF5 MESH API
• MFIX
• MOVIE BYU
• MP-SALSA
• NETCDF
• SAGE
• SILO MESHTV

 

Manufacturing Input Interfaces

• FLOW-3D
• MAGMA
• SUPERFORGE
• TRUCHAS/TELLURIDE

 

CAD

• ACIS
• CATIA v4 & v5
• IGES
• IV
• OBJ
• Parasolid
• Pro/ENGINEER
• SolidWorks
• STEP
• STL
• Unigraphics

 

Command Language

• Python scripting
• Batch processing
• Automatic file recognition
• A counterpart command for every user action in the user interface
• Automatically records commands into file for editing and playback
• Commands can be saved as named macros
• Macros to be replayed at any time or be assigned to keyboard keys
• Sessions to be archived in binary form and then quickly restored

 

Licensing

• Standalone (nodelocked) or floating licenses
• Versions for Windows, UNIX, Linux and Macintosh hardware systems
• 32-bit and 64-bit platforms at no additional cost
• Performance by parallel processing
• Versions for distributed, client/server installations
• One simple license key that controls everything
• Time-limited trial version for purchase evaluations

 

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