Imported Remote Loads

Houses force and moment boundary conditions created by an external analysis, such as Maxwell. The application automatically creates this object when your harmonic system is linked to an upstream Maxwell system, or you can create the object manually and import an external Maxwell file. For linked systems, you can only use these loading conditions during a Harmonic Response analysis. When importing a Maxwell file, the application supports Coupled Field Harmonic and Harmonic Acoustics analyses in addition to a Harmonic Response analysis. Use the Imported Remote Loads option available in the Loads drop-down menu of the Environment tab, to manually insert an object and specify an external Maxwell file.

Object Properties

Tree Dependencies

Insertion Methods

Right-click Options

Additional Related Information

Object Properties

The Details view properties for the Imported Remote Loads object folder include the following.

CategoryProperties/Options/Descriptions

Scope

Scoping Method: Options include:

  • Geometry Selection (default): Indicates that the boundary condition is applied to a geometry or geometries that are chosen using graphical selection tools.

    Geometry: Visible when the Scoping Method is set to Geometry Selection. Displays the type of geometry (Body, Face, etc.) and the number of geometric entities (for example: 1 Body, 2 Edges) to which the boundary has been applied using the selection tools.

  • Named Selection: Indicates that the geometry selection is defined by a Named Selection.

    Named Selection: Visible when the Scoping Method is set to Named Selection. This field provides a drop-down list of available user-defined Named Selections.

Definition

Transfer File: Only available when you manually select the Imported Remote Loads option from the Environment tab. You use this property to import Remote Force and Remote Moment boundary conditions an external Maxwell file. Select the property's field to display an import dialog.

Solution: Provides a drop-down list of the available solutions that were generated in the upstream application. When multiple solutions are available, your selection defines which solution data is applied to the imported load.

Grouping: This property specifies that the loads are grouped by scoping location. That is, one load per location for all RPMs instead of one load per location and RPM. Options for this property include No (default) and By Location. If you group remote loads, use the RPM Selection property of the individual loads to view the imported load data for each RPM step, presented in the Tabular Data window.

Data Type: This property enables you to select which remote loads to import. Options for this property include Forces and Moments, Forces Only, and Moments Only.

Remote Points: Using this property, you select whether or not to display Remote Points as objects in the Outline pane. Options include Internal (default) and Globally Available. The Globally Available setting makes the Remote Points available in the Outline.

Interpolate RPM: This property automatically displays when you import a Maxwell solution file that includes a parametric sweep over RPMs. This property enables you to linearly interpolate the harmonic force and moment loads between two known RPM values, either equally spaced or defined using a manually defined data .csv file. Options include No, Equally Spaced Points, and User Defined.

On Data Refresh: Available only when the Remote Points property is set to Globally Available. Its options include:

  • Reuse Remote Points: This is the default setting. This option reuses the previously added remote points and only updates the scoping and location, if necessary.

  • Regenerate Remote Points: Deletes the remote points that were created during the previous import and adds new remote points when the data is imported.

Filter by Order: This property displays automatically when you import a Maxwell solution file that includes a parametric sweep over RPMs. This property enables you to import only required orders at every RPM. Options include No (default) and Yes.

Order: This property displays when you set the Filter by Order property to Yes. Use this property to enter individual order values (including decimal values) and range entries (whole numbers only). You can separate individual entries using a comma (0.5, 10, 15) as well as range values separated by a hyphen (20-25), or a combination of these entries, (0.5, 10, 15, 20-25).

Number Of Frequencies to Consider: With this property, you can specify the number of Maxwell frequencies to use in the analysis. The application automatically includes the first frequency, by default, and up to the value you specify.

Import Status: Read-only property that displays the status of the import. Status conditions include the following:

  • Data Unavailable: No data is available to perform the import.

  • Obsolete: The data is available to be imported, but no data has been imported or the data is obsolete and should be re-imported.

  • Update: All data has been imported.

  • Import Failed: An error occurred during the import process and no data was imported

Suppressed: The default value is No.

Tree Dependencies

  • Valid Parent Tree Object: Environment (Group).

  • Valid Child Tree Objects: The automatically generated groups of remote forces and moments.

Insertion Methods

  • This object displays by default when you link an upstream Maxwell system to a Harmonic Response analysis in the Workbench Project Schematic.

    Or...

  • Right-click the environment object and select Insert > Imported Remote Loads.

Right-click Options

In addition to common right-click options, relevant right-click options for this object include:

  • Insert > Imported Remote Loads

  • Generate Remote Loads

  • Suppress/Unsuppress

  • Go to Objects in Worksheet

Additional Related Information

See the Importing Forces and Moments section for more information: