General

This task explains how to customize Analysis and Simulation general settings.

The General tab deals with the following settings:

• Default Analysis Case
• Specification Tree
• Load Management
• Automatic Naming

Default Analysis Case

Define a default starting analysis case

This option lets you define a default analysis case that will be inserted each time you enter the Generative Structural Analysis workbench or the Advanced Meshing Tools workbench.

Before defining a default analysis case using Tools > Options command, make sure you started the Analysis & Simulation (Generative Structural Analysis or Advanced Meshing Tools) workbench at least once.

The default starting analysis case is Static Analysis. You can decide that the new default case will be:

• Static Analysis
• Frequency Analysis
• Free Frequency Analysis
   

The cases will only be displayed if an analysis workbench has been loaded at least once because the listed cases are linked to the Analysis workbenches last loaded.

By default, this option is deactivated.

Specification Tree

Show parameters

This option lets you display parameters in the specification tree.

By default, this option is deactivated.

Show relations

This option lets you display relations in the specification tree.

By default, this option is deactivated.

Load Management

Pointed documents not loaded

This option lets you open a CATAnalysis document without loading the geometry.

By default, this option is deactivated.

Disable Product Structure cache system

This option lets you ignore the Cache Activation option (Tools > Options > Infrastructure > Product Structure > Cache Management).

By default, this option is deactivated.

Automatic Naming

Automatic naming for mesh parts, connection properties and user materials

This option lets name automatically mesh parts, connection mesh parts, connection properties and user materials.

If you select this option:

• User materials you create are automatically named with the name of the material selected in the Library dialog box.
• Mesh parts you create are automatically named with the name of the mesh part support (geometry or publication).
• Connection properties and connection mesh parts you create are automatically named with the name of the analysis connection selected as support.

Be aware that:

• The automatic naming is done at the creation of mesh parts, connection mesh parts, connection properties and user materials. This means that:
  • If you rename the support of a mesh part, the mesh part is not renamed accordingly.
  • If you rename an analysis connection that is the support of a connection property, the connection property and the connection mesh part are not renamed accordingly.

  You have to rename manually those entities using the Properties contextual menu.

• You can have problems of naming uniqueness. For example: if you create several connection properties with the same analysis connection as support, all the created connection properties have the same name.
• The automatic naming option does not provide National Language Support (NLS).
   

By default, this option is deactivated.