Overview

Welcome to the DMU Optimizer User's Guide. This guide is intended for users who need to become quickly familiar with the DMU Optimizer Version 5 product. This overview provides the following information: DMU Optimizer in a Nutshell Before Reading this Guide Getting the Most out of This Guide Accessing Sample Documents Conventions Used in this Guide
DMU Optimizer in a Nutshell
DMU Optimizer is a product dedicated to improve users' productivity by computing an optimized geometrical representation of data for mockup verification in the context of the immersive and collaborative design review environment of the full digital mockup. DMU Optimizer facilitates the full integration of Digital Mockup centric processes within the global engineering environment of the customer. DMU Optimizer is a dedicated DMU Navigator workbench and is available on both UNIX and Windows environments.
Before Reading this Guide
Before reading this guide, you should be familiar with basic Version 5 concepts such as document windows, standard and view toolbars. Therefore, we recommend that you read the Infrastructure User's Guide that describes generic capabilities common to all Version 5 products. It also describes the general layout of V5 and the interoperability between workbenches. You may also read DMU Navigator User's Guide You may also like to read the following complementary product guides, for which the appropriate license is required: DMU Space Analysis User's Guide. DMU Fitting Simulator User's Guide
Getting the Most out of this Guide
To get the most out of this guide, we suggest you start reading and performing the step-by-step tutorial Getting Started. This tutorial will show you how to create mechanisms and joints from scratch. Once you have finished, you should move on to the next section: User Tasks dealing with the main capabilities of DMU Optimizer product (representation simplification, thickness, offset, free space swept volume, 3D cuts...) You might be interested in reading the Interoperability section which can be accessed directly from the table of contents using the following icon . It may be also a good idea to take a look at the section describing the menus and toolbars: Workbench Description
Accessing Sample Documents
To perform the scenarios, you will be using sample documents contained in the `online\dmoug_X2\samples`folder. When samples belong to capabilities common to different products, those samples will be found in the `online\cfysm_X2\samples`folder. Where X can be C for CATIA, D for DELMIA or E for ENOVIA. For more information about this, refer to Accessing Sample Documents in the Infrastructure User's Guide.
Conventions Used in this Guide
To learn more about the conventions used in this guide, refer to the Conventions section.