Overview

Welcome to the Realistic Shape Optimizer User's Guide!
This guide is intended for users who need to become quickly familiar with the product.

This overview provides the following information:

Realistic Shape Optimizer in a Nutshell

The main application fields of Realistic Shape Optimizer are:

  • Ability to represent parts under load conditions,

  • Ability to perform a reverse analysis to optimize tooling (Die, Cast, Mold, ...),

  • Ability to optimize the part definition, based on "as built" measurements compared to CAD initial definition.

Before Reading this Guide

Prior to reading the Realistic Shape Optimizer User's Guide, you are recommended to have a look at the Infrastructure User's Guide for  information on the generic capabilities common to all products.

 

  

Getting the Most Out of this Guide

To make the most out of this book, we suggest that a beginning user reads the Workbench Description to find his way around the Realistic Shape Optimizer actions. The User Tasks section gives a quick description of the operating mode of the various actions.

  

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.