PTC Creo

Simulate:
Structural and Thermal
Analysis Tools for the
Engineer's Desktop
Urs Simmler
MCAD Simulation Specialist
PTC (Schweiz) AG

November 28, 2012

Presentation

Urs Simmler
MCAD-Simulation-Specialist

PTC (Schweiz) AG

mail:
phone:

usimmler@ptc.com
+41 44 824 34 36

Focused on PTC-simulation products

Presales, Training, Consulting,
25+ years simulation-experience (17 years with PTC)

Creo Simulate: Structural and Thermal Analysis Tools for the Engineer's Desktop

Agenda

Whats New: - PTC Creo Simulate 1.0

- PTC Creo Simulate 2.0
Whats Next: - PTC Creo Simulate 3.0
Live-Demos: - New Meshing Capabilities
- Collar with LDA & Contact
- Vessel with Preloaded Bolts & Pressure
SAXSIM 2013

Questions

Creo Simulate: Structural and Thermal Analysis Tools for the Engineer's Desktop

Whats New: PTC Creo Simulate 1.0

Creo Simulate: Structural and Thermal Analysis Tools for the Engineer's Desktop

PTC Creo Simulate 1.0: User Experience

> PTC Creo Simulate Standalone

> Ribbon UI
> Unit Support on all dialogs / Results
> Moments/Rotations active when valid

> Distributed Batch Support

> Process Guide Template editor
> 3D icons for loads, constraints
> Mesh display in exploded view
Creo Simulate: Structural and Thermal Analysis Tools for the Engineer's Desktop

PTC Creo Simulate 1.0: Engineering Functionality

> General Large Displacement Analysis:
Contacts
Plasticity
Hyper-Elasticity

> Nonlinear Thermal Analysis:

Temperature Dependent Conductivity
Generalized Convection Conditions
Radiation Conditions

> Modeling of nonlinear springs

> Ordering of nonlinear loads
> 2D axi-symmetric LDA
> Modeling of UCS constraints in LDA

Creo Simulate: Structural and Thermal Analysis Tools for the Engineer's Desktop

PTC Creo Simulate 1.0: Engineering Functionality

> Moving Heat Loads:
Heat loads as combined functions of time and space
Heat loads on composite curves
Heat Loads as functions of arc length

> Generalized modeling of Total Volume Heat Load

> Base Excitation Enhancements:
Different histories in different directions
Linear and rotational motion of the supports
Support G^2/Hz units of PSDs

> Calculation of von Mises stress results in Random Analyses

> Preload on bolts modeled as solids
> Modeling of variable thickness shells

Creo Simulate: Structural and Thermal Analysis Tools for the Engineer's Desktop

PTC Creo Simulate 1.0: Results

> Animation of Dynamic Frequency results
> Measure vs. Measure graphs
> Animation on cutting planes
> Default Result templates

> Output to PTC Creo View

Creo Simulate: Structural and Thermal Analysis Tools for the Engineer's Desktop

PTC Creo Simulate 1.0: Output to PTC Creo View

Creo Simulate: Structural and Thermal Analysis Tools for the Engineer's Desktop

PTC Creo Simulate 1.0: Robustness

> Ability to mesh thin regions with bricks and wedges
> Ability to mesh prismatic regions with bricks and wedges
> Mapped meshing

> Enhanced modeling of Fasteners:

More accurate modeling of interface between bolted components
Modeling of bending and torsion effects
New measure calculations

> Filtering of negative Buckling Factors

> Increased solver memory
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Whats New: PTC Creo Simulate 2.0

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PTC Creo Simulate 2.0: Engineering Functionality

> Temperature History as Load of Nonlinear Static Analysis
> Lightweight Assembly Representations in Creo Simulate
> Online Help Links in Diagnostics
> Speedup of Dynamic Analysis Calculations

> General Performance Tuning

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Independent Mode Retirement

RETIRED!!!
Last Version: Creo 2.0

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Whats Next: PTC Creo Simulate 3.0

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Future Plans PTC Creo Simulate 3.0: Engineering Functionality

> New Ribbon-based UI for Results

> Contact with sliding finite friction

> Faster dynamic analyses

> Automatic preloads for fasteners (you no longer need to run 2

analyses to get the correct preload)

> Fatigue Analysis with Multiple Load Sets

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Future Plans PTC Creo Simulate 3.0: User Experience

> Stress intensity factor measures for cracks

> Improved UI for linearized stresses

> Beams, shells and fasteners displayed as solid geometry

> Can enter Simulate with failed features

> Faster entrance into Simulate from PTC Creo Parametric and PTC
Creo Direct
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Future Plans PTC Creo Simulate 3.0: User Experience

> In addition there are many other small, less impactful features added
to PTC Creo 3.0

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Live-Demos

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New
Meshing
Capabilities

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Live: New Meshing Capabilities

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Collar with
LDA
& Contact

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Live: Collar with LDA & Contact

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Vessel with
Preloaded Bolts
& Pressure

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Live: Vessel with Preloaded Bolts & Pressure

o LOADS, PRELOAD
o Automatically simulate a preload carried by a prismatic
solid (shaft of a bolt)

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Live: Vessel with Preloaded Bolts & Pressure

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SAXSIM 2013

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SAXSIM 2013: April 22/23 in Chemnitz

Usermeeting

Student Competition

www.SAXSIM.de
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Questions

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Thank You, See You

in Chemnitz

2013, April 22/23

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