Name: The Sim-Posium: A Decade of SOLIDWORKS Simulation: 10 Years of Innovation, One Look Ahead
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Transcript for "The Sim-Posium: A Decade of SOLIDWORKS Simulation: 10 Years of Innovation, One Look Ahead": start talking about ourselves. So that's the that's the plan. Hey. Alright. Hey, everybody. Well, we'll go ahead and get started here. We'll wait another minute or so. Thank you all for joining us. So, yeah, Nick and I are really excited to have you all here to talk about some simulation progress. Hey. Hey. How you been... How you doing, Nick? Good. How about you? I'm I'm alright, man. It's, it's flu season. Right? So I'm getting over, I think I got the flu or something nasty. I got a little congestion, but we're gonna make it work here, friends. So... Okay. But, Good. yeah. Coming back congestion... on top. Right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That congestion doesn't go away, man. It lingers. Right? So... Yeah. Yeah. But, but, yeah, looks like we got, yeah, David here. So we're gonna be we're gonna be in the chat. So, so we have we have the q and a section. We also have the chat section. We we like the we like the chat, so so we'll be doing that, for the most part. So we'll we'll be we'll be checking out the q and a in case you do have some questions there, but feel free to pop it all on the chat. Wanna keep, keep things, pretty, pretty open and a little informal. Right? This is just something interesting and fun and hopefully useful for you. So... Hey, Hans. Good morning. Good morning, everybody. Hey. Morning. Coming in from Milwaukee. There you go. Local swag. Yeah. Go check out, David's swag and, group there in Milwaukee, everybody. So we love we love to present at, these, SOLIDWORKS user groups ourselves. So, Yep. I I present at the SOLIDWORKS user group. Nick also presents there as well. in Missouri. have our next week. Use... We have our user group next week in Saint Louis, There you go. here. But, yeah, great place. We we we talk simulation from time to time about these things. SOLIDWORKS CAD, it's a great way to network, great way to, like, to share, different tips and tricks and things. And you guys have pain points at your jobs, what are they? Are those other people? We've all been in your shoes. Right? So. it's a great place to to support each other. It's it's a support group as well. So. so... Yeah. Love love the love the plug there, David. Appreciate it. Alright, friends. Let's go ahead and get started. I'm gonna actually just turn off my my camera just there just to maximize bandwidth, but I just wanted to, just, again, just to just to peek in here, just to say hello to everybody that's that's here in the show today. So let me pop off my camera. Let's get started here, my friends. Alright. So welcome to the SOLIDWORKS Symposium. This is a place where we talk about all things simulation. All simulation is treated equal. We don't discriminate. If we know about it, we'll talk about it. So today, we're gonna be talking about how far we've come with our SOLIDWORKS simulation tools, both for SOLIDWORKS simulation and with flow simulation over the past ten years. Man, ten years. I. am... My name here is Enrique Garcia. I'm the self proclaimed... What's, what's the stick stick we do here, Nick? I'm the self proclaimed simulation sensei and senior simulation specialist. Gosh. Say that five times fast. Right? GoEngineer, and I'm accompanied by my my buddy, my friend, the myth, the legend, the quantifier of quantitative results himself, senior simulation specialist, Nick Pusateri. How are you doing, my friend? Hey. Hey. Good. Good. Well, it's, man. a very high soapbox I'm on with that one. Yeah? Oh, man. It's... We we worked on that a while ago. Right? It's, it's it's fun. Every time I say it, it's, it... It's it's a gas. Right? Gotta keep it fun. But, I hope you had a wonderful summer. What what what do the kids write on their yearbooks? Have a great summer. Right? Yeah. Yeah. So we're back. Kids are in session again. School's back. Right. Yep. Yep. Fall fall is here. Right? Halloween is just around the corner, man. Any plans for Halloween, Nick? So far, I don't know. I I don't know the answer to that one just yet. Yeah. It's it's Halloween not a Saturday. kinda new for my sons. So it's. like, I I don't know for sure what he's gonna do yet. How about you? it. Yeah. Yeah. But, yeah, we we may travel a little bit. I mean, maybe go to California to visit wife's family. We're not sure. But, but, yeah, that's. on the table. It's gonna be a fun one. Right? It's it's Saturday. There's no need to to wake up early the next day for work. or anything like that. So last year was on a Friday, though. That was a bonus too. So, yeah, happens every... Once or twice every every seven ish years. Right? So. so I gotta make the most of it. But, yeah, let's let's keep it going here. Let's, let's talk about... Let let me introduce myself a little bit for those of you that are new to the SOLIDWORKS Symposium. I'm one of your hosts. My name is Enrique Garcia, and I'm a application engineer here with GoEngineer. I specialize in our simulation products. I really enjoy doing these types of presentations. I also I also do, outreach events right, Nick, with schools and students whenever I can. It It seems like a lifetime ago, when I was in college and and a bit afterward, I used to be a high school woodwind band instructor. I used to support, some of the educational programs out here in in... Out of, out of Arizona, out of Phoenix in the West Valley. And so I used to do that for free... For number of years. And, yeah. So I love to support education programs, and it's always been a passion of mine. I'm also a tinkerer just by nature. Ever since I can remember, man, I I used to love taking things apart, seeing how they work, took apart the family computer at. twelve. It's what my kid does now. He just takes things apart, but the whole, putting back. together thing doesn't happen. So It'll come. It'll come with time. Yeah. That's that's a that's a tell, right, to maybe push them into engineering is taking. things apart, the inquisitive nature we all have. Right? Yep. I satisfy that with repairing vintage watches, mechanical watches. I'm I'm a bit of an amateur watchmaker. I just... I really enjoy fixing them up, man, and, just you give them new life. It doesn't have to be expensive. Right? You can fix up some some some older, like, Belova watches, citizen watches, just something like that. Actually, you'll get a kick out of this, Nick. I recently become a a family toy maker. So so here's a here's a picture, of some of the toys I've repaired for my family over the past few months. So, so there... There's a belova that I that I restored there for my watchmaking, and and it's... You... I'm I'm surprised, like, it's not surprised. I'm not surprised at how easy all those skill sets translate to, taking thing... Other things apart. Right? Just the. meticulousness of watchmaking really has helped me kind of, fix up. Here's a buzz light here with some broken lights on those wings. Those ring... Wings were kind of tricky, man. Like, it's easy just to swap them out, but going into the actual wing itself, kind of a pain in the butt. Did some soldering work on this thing. You know, these things, kids throw them. Right? And they they mess them up. They're like mini SIDs. Right? They just they they. fall and they break. Wires tear and shear. So, yeah, soldering iron's your best friend or or woody there. The spring was shot. The the the the little string was out. So I had to... It was fubarred up. So I had to, like, basically repair the string and put tension on it, fresh batteries, brand spanking new, sand in the the the kitty, the... I think it's called the meow meow keyboard or something like that. It makes meowing sounds. It's it's kinda fun, man, But it sounded like a freaking maraca after my niece had it in the sandbox. Not I. had to get it out and... Yeah. Just full of sand. And here's some other stuff. There's another toy there. There's my dad's toy. He dropped his his iPhone the other day and... Well, yeah, luckily, I could just get a get a replacement off of Amazon. Boom. He's back in action. So, yeah, Yeah. just a little bit about myself. to replace the batteries in those. Right? Oh, yeah. Right? Oh, man. Yeah. This planned obsolescence is is a thing too. Right? The things get, Yep. you can replace all all these things when... Till the cows come home, but once the OS slows down, it slows down. Yep. Alright. Yeah. I guess a little bit about me. First off, my name is Nick Pusateri. I I reside out of the Saint Louis, Missouri office location. My title here at GoEngineer is, of course, what, senior specialist in simulation. I've worked in four industries as an engineer. As you can see, I've worked in the power industry, recycling, and mining industry as an engineer. Then, so that's a little bit about my work background. But I guess some fun facts about me, before I ever became an engineer, I was actually a mechanic for almost twelve years. I've been working on cars since I was 14 years old. Nice. Got burned out on that. Didn't wanna do that for a living. You know? It was like, I didn't see a lot of 60 year old guys that were still turning wrenches and enjoying life. Right? So, Sure. so I left there, went went back to school for engineering, became that, and worked in industries, and and been in the VAR channel for, what, twelve years now. So, I do like to do weight training. You know, I like to pick things up that are heavy and then put it back down. Right? So, like mechanic, man. yeah. So I I I do weight train, and, I do like to shoot compound bow just for target purposes. It's, you know, it's a little something different than a typical shooting range with a gun or a rifle. It's a whole different experience with, shooting a a compound bow. And, you know, sometimes I go on the range. I, like this time of year, the animals would come out, and I found interesting is one time I took a picture in... I think the next slide here... Or you click the next here. You know, you go to these these, archery ranges that are free, and it's out in some park area. Right? And lo and behold, what walks up is all these deer that have no idea that what's in my hands is the very thing that, I guess you could say, that takes them out in the, in hunting season. So I thought that was ironic. Right, Enrique? The closer you are from danger, the the farther away you are from harm. Right? Yeah. So that's. a little bit about me. So... Very cool. Yeah. Thank you for that, Nick. So, yeah, so we we do this, this thing we call the symposium every... At least twice a year if we can. Once a quarter if we can as well. So. so, yeah, we're we're happy to be here and happy to collaborate with you guys and give you some good information. So this this podcast is for you all. It's a way to ask questions, help collaborate with you all. Looks like David here is trying to do a simulation specific SOLIDWORKS meeting in Milwaukee with simulation. So if you guys are interested, reach out to, David Mandel there in the chat. Get in touch with him. And, yeah, we're happy to help out as best we can with you, David. But, yeah, that's what we're here for. We're here for our simulation community, and, let's get started. It's, let's go ahead and take a look at the agenda for us today. So we'll start by talking about some some GoEngineer simulation news, then we'll go straight into the main episode showcase there, Nick, and we'll present the top enhancements for our simulation products for SIM and flow simulation. We have a lot of tools and and neat little, capabilities that, have been added to this tool in in, like, a decade. So we wanna cover as much of that as possible, and we need all the time we can get. So we'll jump right into it after the news. And, we'll end the show with some talk about what's coming up in simulation, '20, 2027 for SIM and Flow. Some, pretty interesting see what's, new. in '27. Yeah. We get to peek beyond the curtain before the the main reveal, next month, though. Yeah. So we'll take a look at some of that stuff there. And then, of course, we'll have some time for your questions and comments at the end formally. But, again, as always here, friends, we're here to, this this is definitely a loose agenda. So if you have any questions or related comments along the way, please please just feel free to reach out, chat with us in the chat field there, and, and, yeah, and we'll... If everything works out, which it looks like it has been, we'll be able to see your questions and comments on the chat and give you some feedback. Alright. So let's talk about some GoEngineer news. So as for, simulation GoEngineer news, we have some simulation related events coming up here next month. So we'll talk about... We're gonna be introducing the next generation of SOLIDWORKS tools with our what's new series for 2027. So so SOLIDWORKS 2027, what's new? Join us here on November fourth and fifth as we review basically, what's new in SOLIDWORKS, the the 2027 release of SOLIDWORKS and all SOLIDWORKS related products. So we have many, user driven enhancements as well as performance improvements to share with you all. It's gonna be pretty exciting. Also, I I I think we'll be reviewing what's new as far as AI and SOLIDWORKS here. That's... Those are definitely buzzwords. Right, Nick? Yeah. So, well, of course, just... It'll increase your productivity. It's, pretty exciting to hear what's gonna happen with this... With these tools. It's gonna help you get basically more out of the tools you already own using these, these AI tools and corporations, into SOLIDWORKS. So, we'll be covering all products, including SOLIDWORKS Simulation for you, flow simulation, and SOLIDWORKS plastics. Those are our three major simulation products inside of our ecosystem here in SOLIDWORKS. So we'll be covering what's new with those as well, specifically. So, yeah, go check out our main website at goengineer.com. Register for the events. There's two events there, two dates. It's a great way to see these tools up close and and start a dialogue with us. We're really excited about these things, so these tools coming out. We also are gonna be having a French version of this presentation on the November 18. So for those of you that. that, yeah, man. So we, so for all of our French Canadian speakers, we have you covered. We got, we have some pres... A presentation for you dedicated. So it's gonna be the same same content, same topic, but, it'll be in French on November 18. But that is one of the big ones. Let's see. The next thing, the the other thing we wanna mention just real quickly, it's, another tool that, this is more for our GoEngineer customers. Before we move on, of course. If, you have some support subscription with us for for any one of your SolidWorks products, you probably have a, access to our set of benefits that we call the success plan. Right, Nick? It's, it's... It includes. access to the self paced courses that we help produce, maintain as application engineers. I. have done a few. Nick's helped collaborate with a few as well. We also offer application mentoring sessions. We offer, advice. Right? The mentoring advice for projects you're currently on, many, many training sessions. You wanna know, a refresher on interactions. You know? We give you forty, fifty minutes with us, so you can use these on that. It also gives you access to our our technical support team in case you run into any any technical trouble with your tools. Right? We got you covered on all three all three of these offerings with this, with the success plan. We're also offering a new benefit, Nick. It's called, CAD chat. Pretty interesting tool. It's gonna be included with a new support subscription level. We call it the success plan plus. So everything has a plus these days, like Disney plus. Right? So. it gives you it gives you access to everything in the in the current success plan plus the new collaboration tool. You see what it did there, Nick? Yep. Anyway, cheesy. I know. Anyways, it's it's, again, just a newer offering that we have from us. If you upgrade your plan, to this newest success plan tool, it... It's basically a collaboration tool that lets you collaborate and interrogate with your CAD models on a web browser. I don't know how clear this comes out there for the the preview there. I took a little GIF file of a little demo that I found, but it's it's quite interesting, Nick. It it reminds me of virtual reality meeting tools that we have maybe for VR headsets. Like, I have a Meta Quest three, and I... I've used the the Horizon workrooms, app before where everyone... I think I got a couple of people from GoEngineer just that had headsets or didn't have headsets maybe on the web browser, but they can come into workroom, and you can point and collaborate and show things or draw on things and annotate, except for with CAD chat. You can do this, without a VR headset for everybody. So it's all done on the web browser. It's all secure. It's done, it's basically a session at a time, and you can save these sessions. You can save all the annotations that go along, all the collaboration, all the notes that you guys type in in the session, you know, and save it for later. This way, you can go back, make changes to your models. And then, yeah, later, you can delete it. You can manage it however you like. So, again, it's called CAD Chat. Check it out. Here's some information on... There's some information on our landing page on our website on goengineer.com. It... It's pretty interesting. Yeah. It's a it's a great way for, engineers that are working remote to collaborate and not have to worry about just using some more old fashioned, more traditional tools. So so check it out. Alright, everybody. Let's get into it. This is the main showcase section. So here, we're gonna be talking about how far we've come with our simulation tools and and the SOLIDWORKS ecosystem. It's been a ten years, and we just wanna go in and... I don't know about you, Nick, but ten years, it's a long time for sure. Right? But but. the past decade has just flown by for me, man. It. just, maybe it's the the age. Right? I can get a little older. Just, yeah, just years merge. Right? And and things come up. And with regards to simulation tools, we've added some pretty good... Some pretty useful enhancement that I wanna make sure we share with you all in our community. Just, maybe you'll find some hidden gems that you oversaw during the the release of these tools. Maybe you didn't realize. Right? Maybe you're. working on a SOLIDWORKS, release, and then boom, you jump to two or three releases ahead. It happens. And so you miss. all the what's new stuff, and you just keep working because we have deadlines. Right? This is a tool. It's a it's a toy for for us. Luckily, we get to play with all the neat toys. But for all of you guys, this is a a a, a realized tool that you use every day. And so, yeah, we wanna share some, some of these maybe, more important what's new highlights. Maybe there's a hidden gem in there that you can incorporate in your own workflow. So let's, yeah, let's get into it. Alright. Let's start with, the simulation, SOLIDWORKS simulation enhancements starting back in 2016. Let's jump back down there, and then we'll we'll go back to the feature to, to 2026. So let's start with, blended curvature based measure. Do you do you remember this one, Nick? Yeah. I just didn't realize it was 2016 is when it came out. Keep... But, keep going. Yeah. Yeah. We're being seems. like a while ago. It's, basically... Excuse me. Yeah. There we go. So, basically, blended curvature based mesh, it's a it's it's a a marriage between the standard meshing approach and the curvature based mesh approach. For those of you that haven't seen this before, David, like the like the like the images there. Exactly. So, basically, if you, if you don't know about these, these options in in the measure, we have a standard measure option and a curvature based measure option. If you're working on prismatic parts, right, blocky parts, you wanna use the standard measure. You have very, very repetitive or very nicely organized elements which you ideally would like. However, when you're dealing with, curvilinear parts thick, right, or or organic shapes, very standard deterministic shapes or or, patterns like standard mesh is not ideal for curved shapes. Go figure. So curvature based mesh is the other approach you can take that will go in and add more of a nondeterministic, element rotation, aspect to it to help conform to more organic shapes with your geometries and simulation when you're when you're. discretizing your models. Now in 2016, they released a marriage of the two called a blended curvature based measure, which you see here here. It basically takes the best of both worlds, man. When you're going through and you're looking at blocky, maybe areas where not much is happening curve... Curvilinearously speaking, right, it'll stick with the standard measure, which is more desirable. But then when you're going to a curved area, a small feature somewhere, it'll flip over and, switch to a to a curvature based mesh. Here we can see just a little flat stock piece with a hole in it. We have the little boundary, a little, showing the transition between the standard measure over to a curve... Nope. A a curvature based mesh. So, again, there's, I think, at your old var, I think you guys did, which... This this stuff is available at GoEngineer here as well, but we've done some, some studies, some benefit studies on this with comparing standard curvature and blended curvature based measure tech... Approaches. There's a lot of degrees of freedom and calculation resources you could save by switching over to blended. I think blended is the default now when you install. Yeah. Yeah. It is the default. And, one comment I I do wanna make on blended curvature is... And correct me if I'm wrong here, that I've I've heard this in the past is prior to 2021... So 2021 forward, we didn't really promote the blended curvature very much. It was still kind of a, True. it was in, you know, a work in progress algorithm automatic measure, but it became the default, automatic measure to be used, I think, as of, you know, basically, as twenty twenty one's release. So it was like... it? Okay. Yeah. I... It will... Okay. So, like, maybe theoretically, you know, like you're saying here, it came out in 2016, but it was still in work... It was still a work in progress. We didn't really promote it very much. We promoted more of the curvature based and standard measure, instead of the blended. But at the release of 2021, it became the default, and, they they very, very fine tuned it in twenty one's release. So as of 2021 and moving to present day, this is the... They say the preferred, automatic measure algorithm we should be telling our customers to use. Sure. Does it mean it works it it works for everybody's stuff? No. But you can use it like this. So the blended curvature measure is for models that failed to mesh with the standard or the curvature based measure. So if you're if you're not if you're not seeing a balance from one side of the structure to the other of the load using curvature or standard methods, then use blended curvature, and then you... It should fix the issue you're having. I... I've noticed that blended curvature works well for balancing forces or loads throughout a structure when one side is not doing what it should on the other side, if that makes sense. Does that make sense what I'm saying there, Enrique? Like a like a force balance situation? Yeah. We have two you go. Like. like, I... One time, I was... I had a I had a... An AMS session, application mentoring session, put it that way, where they were doing a scissor lift, load on a scissor lift. And it was a static load, and they meshed the bodies. And one side had the. actual load through it. And then the other side, there was really not much going on, and they were using, I think, the curvature of standard measure. I can't remember which one it was. So we didn't... I didn't quite understand why this was happening. The load was not, you know, symmetrical from one side to the other because the load was uniform across, you know, the scissor lift. And we switched the blended curvature and boom, there it was. I'm wondering know why it... it hadn't come to that point, but it did. Yeah, I I think just to give you some insight, I'm wondering if it's because we're now... Because we're using the curvature based mesh to to more tightly mesh those areas of complexity, small features, and then standard measure for the majority of it. Right? A very deterministic, very, very repetitive mesh like you see there under standard. is gonna help with the force balanced, response. Yeah. Right? So I'm wondering. if maybe it has something it's a... do with. mirroring like you said, those. it's... Yeah. It's like you. said, it's bringing in both capabilities to. smooth out the problem. Very nice. Yeah. Good good, good to hear about those stories, man. So we appreciate it. Alright. Let's let's keep it going. Let's go in and do another thing here. Another, capability, 2016. This... 2016 has some pretty good ones, some good gems here, friends. The next one is gonna be detecting under constrained bodies. Again, another one. I can't believe it's already been a decade since it was. released, but, this is a tool that we use to to go in and look for any under constrained degrees of freedom. So especially when you're doing, I guess, like, static study, Nick. Right? It's always. a pain when you're dealing with, like, you're adding fixtures and, and fixing the model, removing degrees of freedom. You think you got everything right. You. go run the project or the study in this case. You get a message, inst... Unstable model or something. Right? Solver failed. Right? It doesn't tell you why. Yeah. I did... this... I think it... Yeah. Sorry. Go ahead. No. Go ahead. ahead. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I was gonna just say before this, you had to use some tricks of the trade, if you will. Right? You had to either go in and ask a a friend or a colleague to do a little audit with you and go through everything. Right? Because we we miss things, right, as we're as we're as we're preparing things. I mean, we see things up close. We we miss things that may be obvious. Right? So that's a good practice just to have a review by a colleague, or, also, we can use, I think, frequency studies. I used to use that a lot, to go in and look for. for resonant frequencies that were zero or close to zero, and that would be indicative of having a degree of freedom that was left open. So that's something. we used that that. is what's actually being used under the hood here is the frequency study from what, I understand. very cool. So, very nice. That's good to know. But, but, yeah, it's a great tool here, friends. All it is, you do what you do a right click on the connections folder, choose under constrained bodies. It was available for... It's available for static studies. It it, for the first couple of years, up until 2022, it could not detect any instability for models with in... With contact interactions or bolt bolt connectors. So it was more for simplistic bonded based interactions that you could do. Then in 2023, for... If you had SIM Pro or premium, they they they then let you, go in and do and do this for, for contact interactions, which was pretty impressive. That's that's, yeah, that's... Yeah. Again, with contact interactions, right, it's, there's quite a lot of moving parts there. Things are always moving. So it's a bit, advanced, so they're able to support that. don't I don't know if it works for all element types, but at least it does exist. But... Because I... Yeah. I'm I'm not a 100% if it's... If it works for shell and beam, or is it just mainly solid tetrahedral? I'll have to go back and check. If if anyone knows there, please put it in the chat. I think you're right. I think it might be only solids, but but, I don't know. Maybe this this was a shell feed... This, this model was a shell feature. Was it? Okay. Then I stand corrected. May... You know what? I I don't know because I I usually mess with this, and I show this model for solids and then showing the benefits of switching to two d elements. So I'm not quite sure. It... Yeah. It could be either one. So... But... Yeah. Maybe that's, actually, I don't know for us here in the community. Go check it out. Go look at under constrained bodies. Let us know if you guys think it's worthwhile. So, we we definitely use it. It's a great way to to showcase. And, also, if you see here, a little tip for you, Nick. I don't know if you knew this, but this animation you see there on the screen, that that wasn't added until, I think, 2023 or '24. Yep. The realistic orientation. The... of it... Of the free. body movement. Yeah. Before, you you clicked on the on the body and it would highlight, and that was good enough. Right? You could usually figure it out, and it would tell you what the degree of freedom was that was left open. But it's just it's just nice to see it. Right? Nice to see the animation. Real nice touch there. Alright. Let's keep on going. Let's, talk about the, this is, I think, the last thing in 2016, and then we'll we'll we'll speed things up here a little bit. But, we'll talk about mesh sectioning. Real quick, short and sweet one here. Here we have a quick comment from David. Better than just trying to constrain an assembly with mates. Yeah. I I I guess you still have to. Right? You still have to constrain in in in CAD with mates, and then you have to figure out how to have the equivalent of those constraints, inside of SIM. But but... Yeah. Yeah. You're right. It's... It it helps. Right? It helps. Definitely. Let's. go back here and, yeah. Let's let's let's show... Let's talk about the mesh sectioning tool. It's just a real real real simple one. It looked... This is a way to section your meshes so you can see the level of detail inside of your geometries. You wanna have, at least, two to three elements across thicknesses of things on on thin parts and things like that, small features, just to get enough, on the stress side. Right? The stress results are the ones that are picking up the displacements. You can actually have a pretty darn course, displacement result, and they're pretty darn accurate. But the stresses are the culprits. Those are the ones that are bit, more extra. You need to go in and add extra detail. So the mesh sectioning lets you see if you have enough detail for that. Yeah. I I use this, for hunting down, where if you make an aspect ratio plot and, you know, where it finds anything over, you know, aspect ratio of 10 or greater, you can hunt down within the geometry Oh, yeah. where the mesh body and see the element that's actually causing, you know, the high aspect ratio number to, you know, the number to go above 10. So this is. a good tool to hunt it down, and then you kinda pick your battle from there. Right, guys? Whether you care about that element, is it an area of high stress that's causing, you know, your your stress to be bad? And then from there, you can decide whether to refine your mesh or not from hunting it down using this Yeah. Yeah. I remember... Just to touch on this, I remember before this tool, I would have to use SOLIDWORKS CAD to... Like, the split tool or section tool to to cut the model, and tool. then it's gonna be bonded in simulation. But now you have extra nodes they have to deal with just to be able to hide them to see the level of detail. It was a pain in the butt. It was doable, but this is so much easier. And plus, for people that are new to cellular simulation, it tell... It it it opens their eyes to see, woah. It is turning it into a a fem body, a finite element body. So it took your. geometry and turned it into a finite element body. So Definitely. Alright. Let's jump over to 2017, and, we'll we'll talk about some some, some neat capabilities here. The first one is gonna be going in and when you copy a study, right, you're... You typically copy a study. You copy it to the same study type. Well, in 2017... Excuse me. Excuse me. In 2017, we're able to more streamline maybe the the development of your studies. Let's say you start with a linear static study. You did all this work with your with your elements, with with your your features, your interactions. Right? That... That's definitely a big bottleneck for us as analysts, setting up interactions, making sure they're correct. Then you wanna go in and upgrade this to a nonlinear analysis to see what happens plastically, you know, a plastic deformation, more failure analysis. What happens? You usually have to create the nonlinear study and then go in and bring over that extra work that you did at the linear study, either by copying it or just redoing it from scratch, which is a real pain in the butt. But, 2017, you could just upgrade the study. You do a copy study, choose nonlinear or a linear dynamic or a topology if you're doing that... Going that route, and it'll bring over all of those supported features to the new study. Yep. So real, real useful to streamline. your workflows. Yeah. I do like that for nonlinear because usually you qualify that it's truly nonlinear in nature or by a static study or you, like you said, Enrique, you, you prime the pump in the static study, make. sure the mesh... It even meshes, make sure your contacts are done correctly or your fixtures are done in the static study first. So, then you. jump into a nonlinear. So you take bits... Bytes... Small bytes at a time at complexity. Right? So this this, is. another tool to byte at complexity. Patriot. Patriot. Alright. Let's talk about a little utility. This is a little automation that we we incorporated. So we we all do this. Right, Nick? We all are looking for what we call stress singularities, artificial stresses that show up in the models. They're benign by nature. Right? They're in there. They're just... It's just good to call them out. If you're showing a client and you see a very unusually high stress there, if it's in a sharp reentrant corner, a sharp edge of some kind, it's probably artificial. Right? And, typically, we go in and manually, confirm this by tightening the mesh in those areas, running the study again, Nope. looking at the stress results there. If the the stresses exponentially increase and skyrocket up in magnitude, it's probably a singularity. It's artificial. Right? Well, in 2017, we added this tool called stress hot spot diagnostics. You just do a right click over the result folder there, and you can then tell it to go in and do this automated approach where we can say, hey. Go in and run three iterations of this by tightening up the mesh. We give it some conditions, and then the software will look for the maximum stress, and it'll keep track of that to make sure to see what the trend is. Here on the the lower right hand corner there of the slide, we can see a convergence graph. We can see the maximum stress. And as we iterate and add and tighten the mesh automatically with this tool, we can see the the the increases go up. Right? So it's a great way to to kind of do do your job, basically. It's a... One. of the. few do my job buttons. Yeah. It's not gonna take away the the, like, the sharp reentrant corner. It'll just indicate where... I mean, the... Like, Enrique said, it it... The deeper you go inside the tool, it can actually, refine the area that's having the hot spot issue. But if you have, like, on this l shaped part, a very sharp reentrant corner, it's not gonna just fix it for you. You'll you'll still have to put some kind of fill it in there to heal, sir. the problem there. So so don't think of it as, like, it's going to fix the hot spot problem for you on every model that you do. You know, some... Where you have curvature issue causing hot spot, it it it probably will help. But if you have a sharp reentrant corner, it's not gonna do it for you. You'll have to put in the fillet and then go back, reuse the tool, and say whether or not the deck fix the situation with the fillet. Yeah. It's it's it's an interrogation tool, right, or utility. Yep. Yeah. There you go. well put. Very nice. Alright. One more thing here in 20, '20, 2017. You. know, This, one. surprised me. I I don't understand why it was that... You. know, why did it take that long in SOLIDWORKS and to even do something like this? But The mass edit of multiple interactions. Right? You you would you would think we'd have this in there much, much sooner, maybe time ago. Yeah. 2010, right, at least. But, but, yeah, yeah, it's just the tool. You you just go in there. You do you do a control select or or a shift select, and you choose multiple interactions, and you just choose edit definition. You have a... Edit definition. You'll get a pop up that'll let you know, hey. You're you're you're modifying more than one definition. Are you are you okay with that? You say yes. Move forward and get it done. Yeah. Interactions, again, a big bottleneck for us as analysts as far as setting things up. So, again, any any little tool, little enhancement to help speed this along is well welcomed. Right? So. so there is mass edits of multiple interactions 2017. Let's jump over to 2018. This one actually saved a lot of engineers back in 2018 and has been ever since. So we can we can import simulation studies features that are lower level. Let's say you set up a part file or an assembly, a subassembly, and you spend all this time adding all these features to the model, setting things up. Now you're at the top level. Right? You're you're adding more detail to the model. This is what we do. Right? We we start simply, then we introduce more geometry. Maybe we're at the top level of the assembly now, and we're trying to incorporate all those features that we did, back at the lower levels, and we're having to redo them right at the top level. Well, in 2018, we can now use this utility to import study features, and it'll go in and comb all of your components and subassemblies for any models that have existing studies in them, simulation studies, and. you can filter in what you wanna bring in as far as features. So you can bring in quite a bit of different features, side loads, virtual connectors, material selections, I believe material selections. We can bring in, mesh controls for sure. And it's all a matter of going in and, using this little filter. So the the way it works is you go and you start a new study at the top level. You checkbox import study features there upon the creation of the study. Or if you forgot, you're already inside of the the study, just do a right click at the top of the simulation design tree at... What what the name of the study is, and then choose import study features. You'll get this pop up there, Nick. Right? And then you'll just see... In this case, you can see that base plate three component had some features in there, had some, I think, foundation bolts, some side loads, a, a mesh control, and then you can choose with filters with these icons what you want to bring in and what you want to exclude from the import. And it just shows up there. It's great. It just, it brings them in, later and later releases, it lets you sync. I think 2016, it let you go in and do a rebuild from those lower level studies back up to, to to your to your top level assembly. So, again, it's very useful. We've had many customers that, have these larger models, 2,000, part assemblies, I think over in Midwest over by your neck of the woods there, Nick, Motor City. And, yeah, it's streamlined and really, really, it's like magic. We would come in, and these people were like, hey. Like, how can I save some time here? I'm spending. hours recreating all of these lower level features and just a two... A couple clicks. Right? And now you're you're back into it. You saved hours of time. So, again, it was a big, big benefit back in the day and still continues to be. Alright. Let's keep it going here. How are we doing on time here, Nick? So we are at, Now we got about twenty little little over. the half of the hour. Alright. Let's keep it going. Let's, let's talk about hybrid meshing real quick. So this tool, added twenty twenty, we're able to go in. This is more for linear static studies and linear static friendly studies like fatigue, pressure vessel design studies, and we can mix and match draft quality and high quality elements in the same study. It's... If you're... Maybe you have areas of the model or components that maybe don't participate too much. Maybe they're very, very stiff compared to other more malleable components. Well, you can make those stiffer components a draft quality mesh and make the ones that are really gonna respond in the in the in the study make those high quality elements. So it's it's a great way to mix and match your elements to help, maximize your calculation resources ultimately. Yeah. Give me a thumbs up. out give. me a thumbs up out there, guys, if you... Whether you like this this, I'm kinda curious what... There you go, David. What... If you guys like this one. I never pulse check the crowd here. So is this a good one to you guys? I think it is. Dumb down what you don't care and fine tune. what you do care. Right? Especially... Keep going. Yeah. When I... Yeah. Absolutely. Whenever you do larger assemblies... Perfect. Yeah. Thanks for. your feedback, Hans. Very nice. helpful. almost. It's great for... Yep. Bingo. There, you go. David. Nail. on. the head there, David. We get we get a feel of the the... You guys know the nature of it. So that's that's good that we're seeing you you guys understand the nature of it. That's good. Okay. And, it's, yeah, the way you you implement it for those of you that haven't used it, just go into your message. Do a right click on the mesh folder, create mesh, and then you'll see at the top, at some tabs, you'll see a a dedicated mesh quality tab. And then you have two little buckets. Right? You just choose which components you want as high quality and which ones you want draft quality. Real straightforward, UI change. Another more elegant one is in the parts folder. If you have multi... Multiple solid bodies or components, you'd go in and you do a right click at parts of that that area where you assign materials. You can do a right click and then convert to draft quality or convert to high quality, and then it'll actually change the icon. I'm trying to showcase it there. You can see it. There's, like, some some straight edges. on the tetrahedrons for for draft quality and and vice versa. So, It's, a little hard. to see that, but Yeah. A little bit. So, hopefully, you guys will get the get the picture. Alright. Just another one real quick. This is more for new simulation users. If you're new to the tools, you don't know what you don't know. Right? So this is a great way to do a quick evaluation of your model in your simulation study before running the project. It it it checks, pretty important things like result locations. Right? It'll let you know if you're if you're saving result locations on a network. That will definitely slow down your calculation. It'll confirm that you've applied material properties and the correct material properties on your components, verify interactions. Also, it'll it'll check your mesh quality as far as how coarse your mesh is. It'll do a comparison between the mesh volume of the of the of the of the of the, the mesh, the... For the FEM versus the actual CAD model volume. Just to ensure that they're close enough. It'll give you a little a little, a little correlation there. Pretty pretty useful tool. I think it's more for maybe newer simulation users or maybe good for documentation. So so that... Again, something that popped in there. Not much more to be said. Let's move on here, Nick. This one's an interesting one. 2021, we added a couple of new tools. The first one is gonna be context stabilization. So if... With, with this tool, if you, if you're maybe going through and you have some contact interactions, sometimes you can have some instability issues when you're at the at the beginning of your solution. Right, Nick? Then you can. have some errors. So if you have some kind of... That kind of situation where you have these context that are maybe complex in geometry and they they come through, then you can kind of add some stability, some damping, if you will. Right, Nick? Just between those components at those clearances between those, those entities just to help with some stabilization. Yeah. So the way I kinda look at it is as the blue part is coming down into contact with the orange part, they both have, like, like an oil or a thick syrup around each other. You can think, of it like that. go. So as as as as soon as they get close to each other, they have to go through that thin oil or that syrup film to make contact to each other. Like a dampening that... so... Yeah. Yeah. There it is. It's in... It's introducing a small amount of damping between the two body surfaces that will come into contact to, of course, slow down or, I guess, you could say since this is linear static, any kinetic energy that would would not be able to be handled in a linear analysis. So so what you see here on the slide is if if a... If the gap is too big, or there are any interferences... So in... If you see on the slide there, the red circle or the red box there, so there's an interference there and then the gap is too big, then the stabilization does nothing in those areas to control how the bodies come together. It only... It's only controlling that 1% of the characteristic length, in the green box area. So that's my 2¢ there. Yeah. Yeah. It's, Yeah. It's just a nice... Think of it as a little a little stabilization tolerance, I guess. You could? think of it that way. So, yeah, they added that. And then, on the same, properties area, they added the, the gap range to consider contact. So this is, for for models with maybe, again, slightly imperfect geometries like we've sustained there, or small little gaps maybe. Maybe you, you imported a model and you didn't realize had small gaps or or I've had engineers contact me, and they're having trouble with their models. And we realized that they inherited this legacy design from from, some some other person. Right now, it's it's it's a nightmare of a model. Small gaps everywhere that we typically had to resolve before. Right? Everything had to be touching in order to respect, certain interactions. Well, now with this, you can put in, like, a a little gap tolerance, if you will. So we can say anything that has a gap size of, let's say, one millimeter or 1% or less will respect whatever interaction. In this case, this contact interaction. So, yeah, it's it's a great way to kind of, add a little tolerance to small gaps that that maybe were not intentional. That's a that's a big a big little bonus for this tool. There's also a double edged sword right next to this. So if you, put in a gap range to consider the contact and your actual gap range is larger, you could inadvertently be ignoring certain face pairs. in your model. So so, again, They usually. buffer it. Yeah. The devil's in the details. Right? You have to go back in. Again, it's a big a big... A good practice to go in and have an audit of your of your setup with someone, a colleague, maybe a colleague that's learning simulation. It's a great way to to to share knowledge, and then they can look at this with fresh eyes and and make sure everything is is correct. Yeah. I I could say it like this. The characteristic length that it's defining there, it's... I wouldn't change anything in there unless you know the gap between the two surfaces that you're making the contact of is not that number. So I would leave those areas alone unless the gap is not correct in there. The number is not correct. Yeah. And and there's some there's some, default settings there in the simulation options. there. So for that reason... Right. And very good. Alright. Twenty twenty two here, friends. Coarser mesh controls. So if you're using... This is a development with, our blended curvature based mesh from 2016 that we introduced. And if you're using that that flavor, that option, you can now add mesh controls to specific areas to coarsen the mesh. So this is the first time we've ever had this this ability there, Nick, to be able to add a. coarser like this. instead of tightening it. Yeah. So it's just, simple as that. Hey, guys. Keep giving us thumbs up if you like this stuff. Yeah. Yeah. We'd like to see if these things you guys, are liking this. Don't be is. new for you. Absolutely. We we like to get that feedback from you guys. Yeah. Because to me, this is the this is the big one. I I like how it dumps down in areas that are, you know, not... Courses areas of no need and refines. It's kinda like... of need. Yeah. It's kinda like a compliment to to hybrid meshing. Right? You can take. it a step further. Very true. Perfect. So the next one here, 2022 here, real real straightforward. Just we added a new diagnostics tool menu pull down. Just a place to consolidate all of our tools and utilities that we can use. Again, maybe more for a newer simulation user. This way, everything is in one spot. You can be like, oh, what's interaction viewer? Let's check that out. Or or, oh, we have a simulation evaluator. What's that about? Oh, I didn't know that we we needed to put things local. It it gives you a little a little call out for things on what... What's ideal and what's what's not great for for... We got simulation right now. adviser. Yes. Alright. Ten minutes. Ten minutes. Alright. Automatic saving here. $20.24. So for those of you that are in the zone, right, you're... You set up a model. It takes you... You've added, I don't know, to 100 different interactions. You mesh the model. You run it. You... And you're in the middle of running the project, and and now you're running out of RAM. You have a power failure. Your toddler kicks the power cord off of your tower, and you lost all of that work. Right? So you can come into the simulation options and turn on a save, an automatic save after meshing and then after the analysis is complete. Again, best practices that we do, for a newer user or someone that maybe is in the zone. Right? You could forget. We've all done it. We've all been there. We forgot to save our work before running the project or or say... Or or running the mesh. Next, import, this is actually an Abacus thing. Right, Nick? An improved mesh performance. So, basically, we can go in and... We... We've done a lot of improvements over the mesh as you can tell over the past twenty years. But we can now reuse the mesh instances for identical parts. So this is. this is actually a very abacus thing to do where. you're meshing individual independent parts, meshing. right, Yeah. and dependent meshing. And now we just recycle that mesh for all the other instances. It saves so much work and so much time if you're meshing. If you have a 10 a 10 part assembly, five of those parts are identical instances, boom, you've already saved 50% of your performance time to remeshing. Yeah. I don't think that's on by default either, is, it? again, it's it's don't think so. known. Because it is more of a premium thing, it's it's for SimPro and premium licenses only. Right. Right. I think because it's it's a it's a waterfall tool from Abacus, right, this capability. So I'm assuming that's why, but just a just a little footnote for you. Last twenty twenty six, simulating, cables. We can now go in, and we have a new cable connector. Again, we can go in and put in... If your cables are intention, this is the connector for you. You can pop in, what the what the, oh gosh. I'm trying to remember this particular tool. I haven't used it much, With the connection... your. diameter, right, it's it's on there. Yeah. Right? The cable's diameter material, maybe a safe axial strength that you can use for for... When you're going in looking at your connector forces and post processing. Again, just another tool to use and, put it into your tool belt. Alright. Let's continue. Let's finish it off by talking about some flow simulation enhancements, not as much as sim... Simulation FEA. Let's see here. Oh, David had, useful for lifting mechanisms. Yes. Absolutely. Yes. Cranes, bridges. Absolutely. Anything where these cables are in tension, that is, the supported configuration for that. Large components have to... Yeah. Exactly. Hoisting. You got it, David. It's exactly right. It it basically beefed up the link tool. It's the... Yeah. Yeah. You see it right there. The link is above. Link would. just do a, a rigid body connection. You could see no stresses. No feedback. at all. It's... I just... Yeah. No. feedback at all. With the cable, it's the beefed up version of the link tool. Yeah. Yeah. Great, great info there, Nick. Alright. Let's, shift gears real quick for our flow simulation CFD users out there. We have a few select enhancements over the years. This one, again, Nick, it's, one that we didn't realize that, they added so late in the game. Right? Yeah. I I don't understand. that. It seems pretty, pretty straightforward now. Right? But in hindsight, right, it's always 2020. Before 2016, I remember having to Photoshop No. and just take screenshots and mirror them across in Photoshop or something similar, pop it into, my PowerPoint, call it good. Now no no need. No need to worry about that. Just click on the mirror results checkbox, and you're golden. Also, something that's similar to, importing lower level features in CAD. Right? We have this capability in 2017 now in flow where if you've added, maybe an a part file, you... You've added, or another lower level of subassembly, a heat sources, PCB information. What else? The materials. Right? You have different materials. You can then bring that over to our top level assemblies. So, again, Yeah. it imports this one. in there. Yep. It's a big time saver. Absolutely. Yeah. The... For the same benefits, we already covered in FEA. So that's 2017. 2018, another, pretty revolutionary capability, free surface. Starting in 2018, we were able to simulate two immiscible fluids, two fluid mediums that are different. phases. This is impressive what it does. Absolutely. Air and water, oil and vinegar, eventually. Right? Those can get mixed up, but, but, eventually, they'll unmix. Right? It's just the nature of immiscible fluids. So we can we can, in a macroscopic level, simulate those thresholds, those boundaries between those fluid mediums. Now some, some things that weren't supported were things like phase change translation or transitioning, porous misting, effects, or at the time, back in 2018, fans and rotations were not supported. They added that in 2020. You see the screenshot there if you... If you're doing industrial mixing applications. 2020 and newer is when we were able to do that with free surfaces. But things like free flow examples, like, the ends of valves, right, going... Dumping into air and the environment, sprinkler heads, Yeah. If you wanna see. how something... How well something's mixing, like in a blender, for example, Yeah. Yep. this tool will find if you're having blender ish, how well the blend is being done through your blade. turning. Okay. It'll show you recirculations. Yeah. Concentrations of each each each fluid medium. It's it's very insightful. Very, very useful useful tool. Alright. We're getting close to the end here. Next is gonna be associated goals 2019. This is subtle but super, super, powerful as far as streamlining the setup. So whenever we go through and we set up a simulate... A flow simulation project, right, Nick, we have to address engineering goals. It's just a a necessity to get the best convergence in areas of interest. We tell it formally, hey. As an engineering goal, this is the face that we care about for temperature or or pressure or maybe like in this case. Right? We we set up an environment pressure on a certain face. Maybe it's an outlet face. And then down below, we can, on the fly, add a surface, engineering goal. We can save all your flow rate. Boom. That's done. No... Don't have to worry about addressing that formally. Great little tool. I see a lot of our new flow simulation students and users just do this on the fly, intuitively, so it's working. I'm really excited to see people using these associated goals. Also, 2019, Nick, we have flux plots. This is huge. This is a way that we can show heat transfer, right, from one component or one system to another. It's... I call it a sanity check. I use this all the time when I do consulting projects. You wanna make sure your heat transfers are balancing each other out. You're not missing or or losing heat to... You're accounting for heat transfer in the different components. It could be all components of the assembly. It could be a certain subsystem. Whatever you choose to select, and then it'll create this, flux plot. Very, very insightful and, again, a a a really great way to, check your work. Yeah. See energy in versus energy out. Right? Conservation of mass and. see how it is going. in, going out. Exactly. So that's new in 2019. Jumping over to 2020, real subtle. If you needed to do a project and you needed to specify... Maybe you're doing this at 30,000 feet, right, for, like, a aerospace application. Well, before, you had to look up the the temperature and pressure at that particular altitude, pop it in. Not a big deal. Right? You can Google that usually, but now it's just built into the tool. I can hit the pull down menu, switch it to an altitude reading, type in the altitude or whatever unit you wish, and then it'll just give you the pressure and temperature. Real straightforward. Little nice little little gem there for you. This one's huge. 2020 fan derating, Nick. So usually, before 2020, we had to pop in, a fan definitions. Right? Or we could use the fan... The existing fan definitions, but the fan, performance was pegged. It was at a 100% whatever the fan power was going to be. Right? Whatever that CFM was, that's what the maximum was. But we don't typically just... Yeah. GoEngineer. We way. don't? do that in real life. we wanna give some robustness to your tools. Right? We wanna give it some some some relaxation, some tolerancing. So what do we do? We wanted to erate the fan. It's different different industries, but maybe 15%, 25% if you can. Right? And what did that look like in flow? We had to go in and make a custom fan, take the fan curve, and transpose it down by by 15%, 20%, and then use a custom fan every single time. And I remember seeing a lot of our customers would have this big database, and it'll say derated by x percent. And it's the same fan, and we have this... These subsets of of of databases for it. And, and now it's all all built in. So twenty twenty, you go in and turn on derating. You can specify there as a as a as a fraction 85% there. You can derate it down to 50% there, and it'll work. And the nice thing about this, Nick, it has a little dependency button. So you can then start to optimize. You can add a dependency versus other other variables. You can use this maybe for... I haven't done this yet, but you can... I presume you can do it with, with design studies. Excuse me. Parametric studies for optimization, and you can change that if it's a variable a variable available there. I don't know. Have you tried that yet with parametric have not. studies? I didn't know that you actually did that. I I am... I... I'm willing to bet money that it it it is. If it's not, then I, then, yeah, I owe you guys a tasty adult beverage. But, but but that's that's something that actually I'm gonna probably check today. I'm just curious now. But that would be something to give you an optimal, derating. Right? Then we can do a little per... A little performance, optimization. But, that's derating in, in 2020. We have also in 2021. This is kind of subtle but very, very useful, filtering hidden bodies. And, actually, let me see. We're... We are at the top of the hour here, friends. We wanna respect your time. So if you do need to head out, we definitely understand. We are gonna be recording this session. It's gonna be available on our website under... We have a a a dedicated webinars section, which I'll show a slide for. But, but definitely check us out there. We're gonna have a copy of this presentation up there for us for the future in case you guys need to leave here at the turn of the hour. We have maybe about ten more minutes of content for you ready to present. We do wanna cover some of the what's new 2027 capabilities, just before we let you all... We we all part ways. But if you need to head out, thank you for joining us. We're gonna stick around for another couple minutes to finish off the content. But, that's that's all I wanted to say about that. Let's jump over here, Nick, and let's talk about this filtering hidden bodies. So if you guys are using flow simulation... Very welcome there, Hans. If you're using, flow simulation, we always... A technique we tend to use is, something we call either dummy bodies or reference geometry where we have a volume in a model, and we use that volume for, engineering goals or for getting... Cultivating results, interrogating results. Maybe in this particular volume, I wanna find the maximum pressure or what is the maximum flow rate in this particular volume of interest. But the volume, we don't want it to plug up our systems. So what we can do here is if... We typically will use it for what we are using it for, and then we'll hide it in the graphics area. Right? And now with component control, we come in here and we can exclude these bodies from the analysis to not plug up our systems, our our flow systems. Now we can turn on a filter to say, hey. Filter only hidden bodies. This will be the bodies we wanna exclude. Right? So we can easily... More easily go in and and exclude those bodies using, the hidden the hidden filter. Again, just something very practical, very subtle that we can use to streamline these setups that, again, it's just some some minor pain points that can make a big difference. Another one, this is kind of neat for presenting to clients. So 2022 introduced scene plots. So with Flow, the Flow Flow post process was very, very powerful. There's many different types of result plots we can show and combine the showing of them in the graphics area. Here I have maybe a a a... What do I have? A surface plot. Maybe around the surface plot, I can have a cut plot, and then I can have some probes to show what those are. I can showcase the the thermoelectric cooler here in this case. And I can make, this particular scene, and I can I can package it up, so that I can use? So I can show all of these, these post processor plots altogether again later. So I can go in and get it, Sherry, exactly how I'd like. All I do is I right click on the the new scenes folder under the post processor, under results, and say insert. It creates a scene, then I can go hide everything, go about my business, then maybe I'm coming back in. Maybe there's, something in the PowerPoint to a client you didn't... You forgot to show. Well, just pop on over to your flow project, turn on that scene to showcase maybe this particular scene here with the with the cut plot and the surface plot and your callouts. So it's a way to prepackage multiple, plots in your post processor. Alright. Second to last feature. This is quite nice if you have small, unanticipated gaps in your flow projects. If you're doing internal, analysis, especially, you wanna make sure that your geometry is airtight. So you can use some of our tools for that. It'll detect where we have small gaps and openings. And we typically had to go back into the CAD model, repair those. Right? Add material, add just dummy features to plug holes up. Well, in 2026, we can apply this fill thin slot feature. It's just a feature in the in the project design tree. We go in and we specify the actual... One of the phases that are gonna be, kind of in parallel to the model, to the opening, and then we specify the material we wanna choose for that. And in the, in the measure, when you're when you're going in and running the project, there's a little phase in the in the project run that says preparing the model. Well, now they've added this ability to go in and and add a little extra extra elements to plug up those specifically located, slots that you have in the model. So it's a great way to not touch the original CAD geometry. Maybe the the model was, was done up, and it's a real pain in the butt to change the model. It happens. And so you can do this in, in the solver. The last thing I wanna cover before we touch on the what's new twenty twenty seven features, just a quick one is relay... Regarding parametric studies. So we have under the the post processor, under the the results area, we can put in some bubble plots now though so that we can kind of correlate up to three different parameters. If you have a designer for experiments or a what if, analysis and and parametric studies, now you can see some maybe some trends that correlates three parameters together. Just for just for comparison. Again, just so... A simple little bubble plot we can show just for more feedback. That's it. Just a little... Nice little extra. Let's continue on here. We're gonna finish this thing off here, Nick. Good. How you doing, Nick? There's a lot of stuff. Right? We we. try to fake enough for an hour, but we we definitely enjoy and appreciate your conversations and your insights. So, so, yeah, let's, let's finish this thing off here. We're going. to talk about some of the what's new features. These are the highlights that we saw that were very interesting. This one I thought was the most interesting of simulation FEA in 2027. This this is a big need of the product. Absolutely. This is, it... It's a subtle thing. Right? Under connectors, under bolt connectors, we have have an option that says under the tightening method, it's a new tightening method, and we can put in gradual. So this allows you to go in and specify a start time and end time for the tightening of your bolt fasteners. Very important. Right? Like, this helps maybe with the stability of your models. This, this lets you... If you if you guys have been using bolts, right, especially in in in nonlinear analysis, right, you're going through and you're tightening the model, and you can run into some error messages, right, some in... Initial, instability that you might get, a matrix nine error, something weird like that. Those are related to instability. And it'll say model is unstable, then it'll tell you model failed at step one initially. Right? So this will help for those. This will help you ramp up the tightening of your bolts at the beginning of your study, then you can maybe continue with the actual loading of your model. So, again, a real useful tool. You can see a little GIF file there, Nick. Right? It's. just showing that little this case. that little animation kinda... If if you want my honest opinion, Yeah. it... It's not the reality of how we bolt down things. Like, we would never bolt that down. in? a circle pattern. So I wanna make sure everybody... star. Yeah. We would probably star pattern that. So. I want you all to be understanding that you can do a star pattern. It's just this video that... And the GIF here isn't... You know, I would not do it that way in reality, but you can do a star pattern. So please. don't. look at you're if. you're changing, if you're changing your car tire, right, always star pattern that sucker. Yeah. Absolutely. And also, like, just to to echo off what Enrique was saying, you know, this is this is the first time we're really seeing something of what they call multistep analysis. existing. in SOLIDWORKS simulation. So you really never saw any of that at all... Ever really at all. Well, I guess you could say for Maybe with some loading. the loading patterns where you could turn patent loads on or have them off in the beginning of the solve, and then half a second later, they turn on. Maybe that's considered multistep, but this is, you know, inside of a linear study. They're introducing kind of a multistep... Although... I'm sorry. I'm sorry. In nonlinear studies, again, Yes. not linear, nonlinear, where you could have, you know, the the the preload occurring at time zero to one second. And then at the same time, your force somewhere in the object be turned off between zero and whatever second later, and then turn the force on after the preload has been done. So this is, like I said, this is the first time you're seeing multistep, another type of multistep being used with the bolt patterning here. You. wouldn't... You weren't able to do this before because it would just it would just do an amplitude load of the bolt tightening and the loads all at the same time. Now you can time it differently with multistep in 27. Yeah. Absolutely. Yeah. Thank you for that, Nick. Let's keep it going here. Let's talk about another nonlinear capability. We're able to bring spring connectors inside of nonlinear studies now. Again, pretty important. Before, we. had to idealize this stuff with, with simplified geometry, but this is great for representing maybe simplistic mounts, flexible supports, right, just other connectors, bearing areas in the model. We can we can do... This is the the tool that we have now, right, that's allows you to put in axial lateral torsional bending, responses, right, and then stiffnesses. We now have this more advanced spring in nonlinear studies in 2027. So, again, just real nice little simple enhancement there. Some other ones just, that are worth noting, some honorable mentions, shear stress in beam results, just under the list beam forces option. You're now able to choose that specifically. So you can pop in shear stresses. That's quite nice. And also bonding stresses, Nick. If you're putting in, if you're bonding, having contact between touching faces that are bonded right or you're trying to qualify, a a a, a certain glue or some some sort of bond... Bonded... Bonding material. Right? You can now specify a shear stress, a tangential, specifically, shear stress. That's pretty huge. You can do normal. I shear stresses think about. that till you sent that. We could do that with, with beams. Right? But but before, you had to use, like, some stress cut plots and do that. We we cover that. in the, in our simulation course, but this is more direct here, friends. You can go in and just specifically choose tangential stress and see if your bonding agent is going to be below or above that value. It's real real straightforward now. Pretty nice. A few here with flow simulation coming next. So this one is, I think, derivative to the fill gap feature that we talked about in 2026. So, we we mentioned, right, that you can go in and if you have small gaps, we can use that fill gap feature to fill in, with the solver, with the measure, and we can fill in those small gaps in the simulation without having to touch the CAD model. Well, in 2027, I'm excited. I haven't played with these tools yet there, Nick, but I'm excited to see how they're gonna implement this, how robust. this is gonna be. But, basically, we're gonna be able to automatically patch small gaps and openings with this mesh Boolean functionality. All you do is you right click at the very top of the of the flow simulation design tree, choose mesh Boolean to go in and automatically plug up these holes. And it sounds like a do my job button. Right? So I'm excited for this one. Yeah. Alright. The last one here, friends. This one is, just a little enhancement, to the, the the, incorporate or the the, the low level projects. We saw that, earlier in, earlier releases, we could we could, bring in lower level features, right, in flow into the top level assembly. We can bring in heat, printed circuit boards, material selection, and then a few things. But now we can do a rebuild. Before, it was a one way street, friends. You could only bring it in at the time. If you maybe did some changes at the lower level that you wanted to incorporate at the top level, you'd have to reimport those, those features again. Delete them, reimport them. Now in 2027, we could go in and right click on those folders and say rebuild or just rebuild all, and all of those changes from the lower level will propagate up to the top level. That's pretty cool. handy, a nice little, little enhancement or step forward, right, into streamlining these workflows. So real excited for that. Alright, Nick. I think we did it, man. I think we made it. We're we're about fifteen minutes, just about fifteen minutes over there. So we wanna thank you guys for joining us and sticking around for the extra minutes. We really enjoy, kind of presenting to you all. We really like doing these presentations for y'all. So if you have any, any other ideas for any future, shows and programs, definitely give us some feedback. Feel free to to. shoot us an email. We'll we'll pop our emails on here. Also, if you wanna see this webinar in its entirety again, if you wanna go back, take some screen grabs and stuff, check out under GoEngineer.com. 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