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PTC Creo Elements/Direct Finite Element Analysis Survey

qnguyen
1-Newbie

PTC Creo Elements/Direct Finite Element Analysis Survey

Would anyone please let me know if PTC Creo Elements/Direct Finite Element Analysis has the following capabilities for thermal analyses? Any suggestions/recommendations are welcome too. Thanks.

Steady state and transient analysis

Conduction, convection and radiation

Temperature and pressure dependent thermal conductitivity

Anisotropic thermal conductivity

Material propety aliases (for easy re-assignent materials to models)

Automatic calculations of capacitances and linear conductances and radiation conductances thru MLI

Ablation calculations

Calculate interface conductances along surface edges

Thermoelectric coolers

User defined variables for parametric study

Verify model with checking tools (active surfaces, duplicate nodes, overlapping surfaces, free edges etc.)

Organize models using submodels

Manage models with Model Browser

Run multiple analysis cases in sequence

Postprocessing tools for animation, temperature history plots, and temperature contour plots, etc.

Defeaturing tool (remove unnecessary features from CAD models) to simplify model meshes

Built-in functions for modeling primitive shapes, Boonlean Operations, 2D sketching tools

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Mahesh_Sharma
22-Sapphire I
(To:qnguyen)

Quoc,

This is about Creo Elements/Direct hence moving the post to correct category.

Thanks, Mahesh, for your suggestion. Since I was not able to locate the Creo Elements/Direct category you had mentioned, I decided to post this question again in Creo/Analysis and Simulation/. I hope this will be fine.

PeterKehoe
5-Regular Member
(To:qnguyen)

I've never used the FEA module for thermal analysis, so I don't know all of the answers:

Steady state and transient analysis - Don't know

Conduction, convection and radiation - Conduction and convection, but I don't believe it handles radiation

Temperature and pressure dependent thermal conductitivity -Don't know, but I believe that conductivity is assumed constant

Anisotropic thermal conductivity -Don't know, but I believe that conductivity is assumed constant

Material propety aliases (for easy re-assignent materials to models) -You can pick materials from a table, so it is easy to assign/reassign

Automatic calculations of capacitances and linear conductances and radiation conductances thru MLI - Don't know

Ablation calculations -Don't know

Calculate interface conductances along surface edges -Don't know

Thermoelectric coolers -Don't know

User defined variables for parametric study -I don't believe that the FEA module can access any parameters and adjust them

Verify model with checking tools (active surfaces, duplicate nodes, overlapping surfaces, free edges etc.) -There are some checking tools, but I don't know if it meets what you are looking for. Most of what you specified should be handled automatically since you would be dealing with solid models and automeshing

Organize models using submodels -Yes

Manage models with Model Browser -I think that the that answer is yes

Run multiple analysis cases in sequence -I don't know of a way to automate the sequence, they would need to be started manually

Postprocessing tools for animation, temperature history plots, and temperature contour plots, etc. -There are postprocessing tools, but since I've never run thermal analyses, I don't know what postprocessing tools are available.

Defeaturing tool (remove unnecessary features from CAD models) to simplify model meshes -Since Creo Elements/DIrect Modeling is an explicity modeling tool, there are plenty of tools to defeature your models.

Built-in functions for modeling primitive shapes, Boonlean Operations, 2D sketching tools -Since Creo Elements/DIrect Modeling is an explicity modeling tool, there are plenty of tools to create primitive shapes.

Thanks a lot, Peter, for your inputs regarding the CAD features. I really appreciate the effort.

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