1. Copyright © 2010 Altair Engineering, Inc. All rights reserved.Altair Proprietary and Confidential Information Section 4 Applications

2. Copyright © 2010 Altair Engineering, Inc. All rights reserved.Altair Proprietary and Confidential Information Geometry Applications | Geometry In Geometry workbench following are the functions available.

3. Copyright © 2010 Altair Engineering, Inc. All rights reserved.Altair Proprietary and Confidential Information This option is used to remove the floating vertex and merge the connected edges. vertices at which the feature angle less than or equal to the specified angle will get removed. Geometry | Vertex

4. Copyright © 2010 Altair Engineering, Inc. All rights reserved.Altair Proprietary and Confidential Information Create- To create faces Merge- To merge two or more faces Split faces- To split a face into number of faces Break Faces- To break a face up to the specified length. Face equivalence - To equivalence nodes between two faces Imprint Line- To imprint a line on a face Imprint circle- To imprint circular edges on a faces Show Adjacent- To trace out the adjacent faces Disconnect- To disconnect a face that is not continuous Cap Cylinder- To close (capping) the opening of a cylinder and to create layers of caps along the axis. Replace- To replace a face with another face Remove Fillet- To remove fillet from the body. Geometry | Face

5. Copyright © 2010 Altair Engineering, Inc. All rights reserved.Altair Proprietary and Confidential Information Face CleanUp Close Narrow Region- To extend the floating edge upto the boundary. Remove Tiny Faces- To display the tiny edges within the tolerance. Remove Thin Faces- To add mid line on the face and collapse the elements. This is mainly used to collapse thin faces on the ribs. Geometry | Face

6. Copyright © 2010 Altair Engineering, Inc. All rights reserved.Altair Proprietary and Confidential Information Create- To create a body (Block, Cylinder etc) Merge- To merge two or more bodies Show Internal faces- To show the faces that are within the body Unmerge- To unmerge the merged bodies Show Features- To identify the features like fillets, cylinders etc. Show edges- To display edges of given length Remove face- To remove any faces like chamfers,etc Break- To break a body or a face Disconnect- To disassemble the merged body. Boolean- To identify a target solid and one or more tool solid. Geometry | Body

7. Copyright © 2010 Altair Engineering, Inc. All rights reserved.Altair Proprietary and Confidential Information Create- To create an empty model Merge- To merge two or more models Show Bodies- To display bodies which are lesser than the given bounding box. Sew Model- To stitch sheet bodies and make them as a single body. (for parasolid only) Imprint Model- To make imprint of one body on the other (for parasolid only) Transfer Body- To transfer one or more bodies from one model to another model. Merge RBE- To merge two or more RBEs from a single body. Geometry | Model

8. Copyright © 2010 Altair Engineering, Inc. All rights reserved.Altair Proprietary and Confidential Information Applications | Meshing Mesh Control- For applying local mesh control parameters Surface Mesh- To mesh a body with surface elements Local Remesh- To alter the mesh locally Free Edges- To identify the cracks Element Intersection- To identify the overlapping elements Auto cleanup- To fill the cracks, holes in a body Cleanup- Tools for manually cleaning a surface body Volume Mesh- To create meshes with solid elements Quality Check- To verify the quality of the elements Tools- Special functions (Axisymmetric meshing, Mesh Pattern, Pent layer, Layered element, Face offset, Project to CAD, Change Layers)

9. Copyright © 2010 Altair Engineering, Inc. All rights reserved.Altair Proprietary and Confidential Information Extract Cylinder- To extract the perfect cylinder part from a cylindrical pipe Align- To align the entities Join- To assemble the faces and make congruent nodes Separate- To separate the shared faces Share Entities- To display the shared faces or edges Hex Bolt Align- To align a hex meshed bolt with the bolt hole. Applications | Assembly

10. Copyright © 2010 Altair Engineering, Inc. All rights reserved.Altair Proprietary and Confidential Information Node- To create a Node. Element- To create elements. Renumber- Renumber Load, Element, LBC connection id's of a model. Transfer id's- Transfer Node id's and property of one body to another body. Node id's are transferred based on the co-ordinates. If nodes with same co-ordinates exists in both bodies then destination body node id will be changed to source body node id. Transfer Loads- Transfer loads and properties from one model to another and properties model. Replace Body- To replace the existing body with new body. Export Nodes/- To write the Nodes and elements of the selected face. Elements Assign LCS- Used to assign Local co-ordinates system to selected graphics or FEM entity Nodes. Tools- Special functions (Thread removal, Logo Removal, create Rib, Symmetry plane, Set id, Calculate volume) Applications | FEM

11. Copyright © 2010 Altair Engineering, Inc. All rights reserved.Altair Proprietary and Confidential Information Applications | Analysis | Structural Co-Ordinate- To create local coordinates Loads- To apply loads Constraints- To apply constraints Interaction- To define the surface behaviour Contact- To establish the contact between bodies Mass- To see the mass properties of a body Global damping- To define the critical damping vs Frequency and global structural damping values Connections- To create connectors, equations, RBEs Sets- To create entity sets Material- To define Material Property- To assign Material properties to a body Load Case- To create load sets Rename LBC- To rename to loads and boundary conditions. Export- To write out solver input

12. Copyright © 2010 Altair Engineering, Inc. All rights reserved.Altair Proprietary and Confidential Information Initial temperature- To define the initial temperature on specified entities. Temperature- To define the temperature on the specified entities. Flux- To create surface heat flux load to define surface based heat fluxes. Convection- To define surface heating/cooling due to convection by surrounding fluids. Heat source- To create heat source on the specified location. Thermal MPC- To define equation/MPC for thermal degree of freedom between nodes of faces. Thermal Contact- To specify contact between bodies Material- To define material property for a model. Property- To define properties for solids,shells,beam or bar,rigid elements. Load case- To organize loads and constraints created into Nastran load cases or Abaqus steps. Export- To write out solver input. Applications | Analysis | Thermal

13. Copyright © 2010 Altair Engineering, Inc. All rights reserved.Altair Proprietary and Confidential Information Import results- To import the result files Select- To select the results of load sets Contour- To adjust the contour spectrum Deformation- To set the deformed view for results Animate- To see deflections in animations XY Plot- To plot graphs between the nodes and results Export results- To export the results for nodes and save them in the desired format Tools- Special functions (Query results, Bore distortion, FRF, Show Min Max, Set display etc.) Applications | Results