Product: Abaqus/CAE
Benefits: The SIMULIA Associative Interface for Abaqus/CAE allows you to easily transfer an assembly from CATIA V6 to Abaqus/CAE; you can subsequently modify the model in CATIA V6 and propagate these modifications to Abaqus/CAE without losing any analysis features assigned to the model in Abaqus/CAE.
Description: When you use the SIMULIA Associative Interface for Abaqus/CAE to transfer the geometry of a model from CATIA V6 to Abaqus/CAE, the model appears in the current Abaqus/CAE viewport, as shown in Figure 3–2.
The parts and part instances from CATIA V6 are stored in the Abaqus/CAE model database and appear in the Model Tree. You can use CATIA V6 to modify the parts or to change the position of instances in the assembly. When you subsequently import the model into Abaqus/CAE, the Abaqus/CAE model is updated to reflect the changes. In addition, associative import retains any features that you added to the model with Abaqus/CAE. Any of the features that you created in Abaqus/CAE—such as partitions, loads, boundary conditions, sets, and surfaces—are regenerated each time you import the modified model from CATIA V6.You can also save the geometry of your CATIA V6 model in an assembly file (.eaf) format that you can manually import into an Abaqus/CAE assembly.
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