These objects are used for certain analysis configurations only.
| Additive Manufacturing | |
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| These objects set up and define options for an AM process simulation. | |
| Object | Description |
| AM Bond | Establishes a connection between a meshed part and a meshed support in an AM process simulation. |
| AM Process | Identifies geometries and sets global options for all AM-related objects in an AM process simulation. |
| Build Settings | Defines the strain assumptions, process parameters, and build conditions related to the additive machine, material, and process. |
| Generated Support | Generates a support structure consisting of finite elements. |
| Predefined Support | Identifies a support structure that was imported with your part geometry. |
| STL Support | Imports and meshes a support structure that is an STL (Stereolithography) file, of either volumeless or solid type. |
| Support Group | Groups support objects (STL Support, Predefined Support, and Generated Support). |
| Composite Prep/Post | |
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| These objects provide and plot composite result data for Composite PrepPost. | |
| Object | Description |
| Composite Failure Criteria Definitions | A model-level object that is inserted into the tree when you promote a Composite Failure Tool object. |
| Composite Failure Tool | Provides result data that corresponds to that of the failure definition in Ansys Composite PrepPost (ACP). |
| Composite Sampling Point Tool | Provides ply-wise results that were modeled using ACP. |
| Composite Sampling Point | Plots the composite part result data. |
| Explicit Dynamics | |
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| These objects apply a specific velocity as an initial condition for Explicit Dynamics. | |
| Object | Description |
| Angular Velocity | Applies angular velocity as an initial condition for use in an explicit dynamics analysis. |
| Drop Height | Applies a velocity as an initial condition by calculating the velocity at which an object would be traveling if dropped from rest from a specified height. |
| Fracture Analysis | |
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| These fracture-based objects enable you to create cracks in and on your model to compute fracture parameters. | |
| Object | Description |
| Arbitrary Crack | Defines a crack to analyze planar or non-planar cracks of any arbitrary shape, which already exist on the geometry model. |
| Contact Debonding | Defines contact regions along a contact interface that will separate. |
| Elliptical Crack | Inserts embedded void cracks into a solid body. |
| Fracture | Contains all crack definitions. |
| Interface Delamination | Simulates the separation of two materials across an interface. |
| Pre-Meshed Crack | Defines a crack that is based on a previously generated mesh and used to analyze crack fronts based on a Named Selection. |
| Ring Crack | Inserts embedded void cracks of a hallow disc shape into a solid body. |
| Semi-Elliptical Crack | Defines a semi-elliptical crack based on an internally generated mesh to analyze crack fronts by use of geometric parameters. |
| SMART Crack Growth | Simulates fatigue and static crack propagation in a structure. |
| Structural Optimization Analysis | |
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| Object | Description |
| Design Contraint | Specifies certain manufacturing-based limitations to help alleviate design problems. |
| Manufacturing Constraint | Specifies contraints and other restrictions to ensure manufacturable designs in a Structural Optimization analysis. |
| Objective | Specifies the structural optimization goal. |
| Optimization Region | Specifies the geometric entity on a model that will be optimized using a Structural Optimization analysis. |
| Response Constraint | |