Thermal analysis settings allow customization of various options during the transient thermal solution.

The transient thermal analysis will determine the temperature history during the build process. These temperatures will then be used in a static structural analysis to determine the build distortions and stresses. The Mechanical application will automatically determine all the steps and times needed for time integration in the simulation.

Procedural Steps

Click Analysis Settings under Transient Thermal and, in Details, review the available options. It is usually appropriate to leave most analysis settings set to program-controlled. These settings are determined when you insert the DED Process object into the project tree.

In a DED simulation, your results file will grow in size very quickly, so we recommend you keep the default Output Controls that will suppress calculation of thermal flux, nodal forces, Euler angles, volume and energy, and other miscellaneous items. Nodal temperatures are stored at all time points by default but you can change that option (under Store Results At) so that temperatures are stored at the last time point only, at equally spaced time points, or at a specified recurrence rate.