Overview

Welcome to the DMU Fitting Simulator User's Guide! This guide is intended for users who need to become quickly familiar with the product. This overview provides the following information: DMU Fitting Simulator in a Nutshell Before Reading this Guide Getting the Most Out of this Guide Accessing Sample Documents Conventions Used in this Guide
DMU Fitting Simulator in a Nutshell
DMU Fitting Simulator is a software dedicated to simulating part motions for assembly and maintainability issues. It addresses the Design Review Environment of Digital Mock-Ups (DMU) and can handle a wide range of products from consumer goods to very large automotive or aerospace projects as well as plants, ships and heavy machinery. DMU Fitting Simulator is a dedicated DMU Navigator Version 5 workbench and is available on both UNIX and Windows environments. DMU Navigator Version 5 comprises the following main applications: Kinematics Simulator Fitting Simulator Space Analysis DMU Optimizer The above applications are delivered as totally interoperable workbenches. From a user interface standpoint, switching from one to another is completely transparent and done in a context-sensitive fashion. In addition, to these workbenches, DMU Navigator is an open solution which offers: Support of native CATIA Version 4 and Version 5 data Interface with the VRML industry standard for data exchange Native OLE (Object Linking and Embedding) compliance. This facilitates the system integration within the office environment and across the digital enterprise. DMU Kinematics Simulator Offers motion simulation capabilities. Kinematics Simulator can be cooperatively used with other current or future companion products of the DMU Navigator next generation such as DMU Fitting Simulator and DMU Space Analysis. DMU Fitting Simulator Allows the user to define and simulate assembly and disassembly procedures thereby validating product assembly and maintenance at the design stage. Fitting Simulator can be cooperatively used with other current or future companion products of the DMU Navigator next generation such as Kinematics Simulator and Space Analysis. DMU Space Analysis Offers advanced interference analysis, sectioning and measurement capabilities. Space Analysis can be cooperatively used with other current or future companion products of the DMU Navigator next generation such as DMU Kinematics Simulator and Fitting Simulator. DMU Optimizer Improves user's productivity by computing an optimized representation of data for mockup verification in the context of the immersive and collaborative design review environment of the full digital mockup. 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 like to read the following complementary product guides, for which the appropriate license is required: DMU Navigator User's Guide DMU Kinematics Simulator User's Guide DMU Space Analysis User's Guide DMU Optimizer User's Guide
Getting the Most Out of this Guide
To get the most out of this guide, we suggest that you start reading and performing the step-by-step Getting Started tutorial. This tutorial introduces basic steps involved in using fasteners. Once you have finished, you should move on to the User Tasks section, which deals with handling all the product functions. The Workbench Description section, which describes the DMU Fitting Simulator workbench, and the Customizing section, which explains how to set up the options, will also prove useful. Navigating in the Split View mode is recommended. This mode offers a framed layout allowing direct access from the table of contents to the information.
Accessing Sample Documents
To perform the scenarios, sample documents are provided all along this documentation. For more information about this, refer to Accessing Sample Documents in the Infrastructure User's Guide.