1. Copyright © 2010 Altair Engineering, Inc. All rights reserved.Altair Proprietary and Confidential Information Regeneration – Pro/Engineer

2. Copyright © 2010 Altair Engineering, Inc. All rights reserved.Altair Proprietary and Confidential Information 1.SimLab gives access to design parameters exposed in CAD software and allows the definition of parameters inside SimLab that define feature modification (Regeneration), which enables the user to study the influence of design parameters on the result. 2.The group information of entities like faces and edges can also be imported into SimLab as groups which enable the user to define mesh control, loads and boundary condition. Regenerating the model will retain the group information Regeneration

3. Copyright © 2010 Altair Engineering, Inc. All rights reserved.Altair Proprietary and Confidential Information Only the design parameters are read into SimLab from Pro/Engineer. Ref. Design parameters in ProEngineer.ppt for parameters in Pro/EngineerRef. Design parameters in ProEngineer.ppt for parameters in Pro/Engineer Design parameters

4. Copyright © 2010 Altair Engineering, Inc. All rights reserved.Altair Proprietary and Confidential Information Parameters created through Tools | Parameters will be read into SimLab as design parameters. Images show the parameters defined in Pro/E for the attached sample con_rod.prt file. Design parameters (Contd.)

5. Copyright © 2010 Altair Engineering, Inc. All rights reserved.Altair Proprietary and Confidential Information User need to select the “Design Parameters” option to import the parameters defined in Pro/E Importing Pro/E parameters into SimLab

6. Copyright © 2010 Altair Engineering, Inc. All rights reserved.Altair Proprietary and Confidential Information Accessing design parameters in SimLab

7. Copyright © 2010 Altair Engineering, Inc. All rights reserved.Altair Proprietary and Confidential Information Right click on model tree enable the user to regenerate the model by defining the “New Value” for design variables Accessing design parameters in SimLab

8. Copyright © 2010 Altair Engineering, Inc. All rights reserved.Altair Proprietary and Confidential Information Ex: Design parameters in con_rod.prt BIGEND_DIA SMALLEND_DIA THICKNESS