Simulation

Use the links below to find content related to measuring geometry, animating assemblies, and optimizing your design.

• Also check out the right side of the page for some of the more valuable validation topics that can change the way you work.

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Learn the basics

• Change the current view settings

• Physical properties of parts and assemblies

• 3D Measure command

• Explode an assembly automatically.

Next level

• Checking interference on parts

• Using sensors

• Creating assembly animations

• Practice creating and using QY CAD Simulation studies

Quick Search

animate (KeyShot) - animate (FEA) - colors - constraints - contact - distance - design optimization (FEA)  - simulation - pt1 comb stress - surface to surface contact - meshes (FEA) - meshes (generative) - femap/nx nastran - plot - render - section views (3D)

Measure distance, area, and length on a model and while drawing 2D geometry in profiles, sketches, and in the Draft environment. See Working with engineering tools.

To reduce weight or find a volume, Use goal seeking in calculations.

Verifying assemblies—Use the basic physical motion, interference checking, and sensor tools in the Assembly environment to ensure that your assemblies are valid.

Use QY CAD Simulation finite element analysis to visualize where models twist, bend, and break using different types of studies. See Analyze a model, and then Review analysis results.

Explode and animate your assembly using QY CAD ERA (Explode-Render-Animate).

Learn to use QY CAD Motion to perform time-based kinematic analysis of moving parts in your assemblies based on assembly relationships.

Use design optimization in QY CAD Simulation to refine the results of a structural or thermal analysis of a part, sheet metal, or assembly model by changing the study geometry based on selected variables. See Minimize the mass of a part with design optimization.

Open KeyShot to create photorealistic renderings of your model.

Transfer the resulting dynamic loads and engineering data from a completed motion simulation directly into your QY CAD Simulation study as time-based loads for structural analysis. See the QY CAD Motion simulation workflow.

Use FloEFD for QY CAD to simulate the flow of fluid or gas over, through, and around your model, and to analyze its interaction with surfaces.