General

[General]

• Application : Specify the user name, company name, temporary file folder, file save interval, etc.

• License : Authorize the program license. The Stand Alone (USB Hard lock) method and the Web Authorization method are supported.

• Unit system : Specify the force/length/time unit system used for analysis. Use the Unit converter at the bottom right to convert the units before or after analysis.  

[Graphic]

• Work View : Set the options for the screen.

- The mouse operation can be used to fit the utilized 3D CAD wheel operation.

- The Smoothing Surface Rendering method regulates the edge line tessellation of a cylinder shaped curved surface. The available levels are from 1 to 5, with a higher quality and smoother surface as the level gets higher.

- The Shape of the Dynamic View is the option for the displayed modeling shape on the work window during view rotation.

• Selection : Specify the options for the model part.

• Guider : Specify the options for the screen guider.

• Geometry shape : Specify the color for each geometry shape type.

• Element : Specify the color for each element type.

• Advanced : Adjust the advanced options for the graphic setting. It determines whether to show the shadow and controls its shade. The available levels are from 1 to 5, with darker information shown as the level gets higher.

Geometry/Mesh/Connect

[Geometry]

• Common : Adjust the options used on all geometry shapes.

• Import : Set the import option.

[Mesh Set]

• Common : Adjust the basic options used on  the mesh feature.

• Size Control : Adjust the color of the symbol shown when the seed function is used.

Load/Boundary Condition

[Coordinate system] : Specify the color of the coordinate system symbol. Symbol 1, Symbol 2, and Symbol 3 represent the X axis, Y axis, and Z axis respectively.

[Mesh] : Specify the size of the node and element number.

[Static load] : Specify the size and color of the static load symbol.

[Dynamic load] : Specify the size and color of the dynamic load symbol.

[Boundary condition] : Specify the color of the boundary condition symbol.

Analysis/Results

[Analysis]

• Number of processors : Specify the number of CPUs used for analysis. For a dual core CPU, input 2 processors and for a quad core CPU, input 4 processors to increase the analysis speed.

• Element Formulation : Specify the formula applied to the element.
  In terms of speed, a faster solution can be obtained in order of Reduced (Efficiency) > Standard (Stability) > Hybrid (Accuracy). In terms of accuracy, a more accurate solution can be obtained in order of Hybrid (Accuracy) > Reduced (Efficiency) > Standard (Stability).

• Equation Solver (Structural) : Specify the method for solving a finite element simultaneous equation. If the setting is automatic, the program automatically determines one of the following methods: Multifrontal, Dense matrix or AMG(Algebraic Multi-Grid).

• 2D Element Setting (Structure) : The [Unique Shell Normal Generation] function judges two adjacent shell elements to have two different normal directions when the value between the normal direction vectors are larger than the input value. Because the element size is relatively larger than the curvature, if this value is increased for a rough curved mesh, a smooth contour that considers the curvature of the geometry shape can be calculated.
  The [Consider Drilling DOF(degree of freedom)] option calculates the stiffness of the in-plane deformation by considering the rotation about the out-plane axis (drilling degree of freedom).

[Result]

• General : Input an analysis result that is extremely small and can be considered as 0. The default value is set as 1e-12, and results lower than this value is considered as 0.

• Contour : Determine the various settings for contour representation of analysis results.

• Vector : Display results that are represented with a (V) using vectors. Here, specify how to represent the vectors.  

• Deform : Specify the basic settings for checking the deformed shape of analysis results.

• No result entity : Specify how to represent the no result entities when displaying analysis results.

• Diagram : Determine the basic settings for diagrams.

• Graph : Select whether to show the graph.

• Animation : Specify the location in which the animation image types and files are saved.

• Legend : Specify the background color and number of result bands displayed on the screen.

Customize Shortcut Key

The user can call up frequently used commands by defining a shortcut key.