Managing large assembly FEMs using the Simulation Navigator and Simulation File View

Several commands in the Simulation Navigator and the Simulation File View panel allow you to easily manage assembly FEMs with many components or subassemblies.

Expanding nodes

In the Simulation Navigator, you can easily manage nodes by right-clicking and choosing one of the following options:

Collapse All

Collapses all expanded nodes for all entities in the Simulation Navigator, including those of coordinate systems, selection recipes, groups, etc.

Expand All

Expands all collapsed nodes for all entities in the Simulation Navigator, including those of coordinate systems, selection recipes, groups, etc.

Expand All Components

Expands collapsed nodes of all component and subessembly FEMs; including nodes of components within subassemblies.

Expand to Work

Expands collapsed nodes of parent subassembly FEMs to show the child component or subassembly FEM which is set as the active work part.

Expand to Loaded

Expands collapsed nodes of parent subassembly FEMs that contain children component or subassembly FEMs with fully or partially loaded parts.

Expand to Visible

Expands collapsed nodes of parent subassembly FEMs that contain visible children component or subassembly FEMs.

Expand to Selected

Expands collapsed nodes of parent subassembly FEMs to show children component or subassembly FEMs that are currently selected in the graphics window.

You can also manage nodes in the Simulation File View panel by right-clicking the Session node and choosing one of the following options:

Expand All

Expands all collapsed nodes in the Simulation File View panel.

Expand to Displayed Part

Expands all collapsed nodes to show the active displayed part.

Expand to Work Part

Expands all collapsed nodes to show the active work part.

Packing and unpacking components

You can combine all component FEMs, component FEM representations, or subassembly FEMs that have multiple occurrences under a single node by right-clicking in the Simulation Navigator and choosing Pack All . Alternatively, you can right-click the node of a component with multiple occurrences and choose Pack. The resultant node is named using the number of combined components, as can be seen in the figure below.

Packed component FEMs

You can also separate all packed components from under a single node so that each has its own node. To do this, right-click in the Simulation Navigator and choose Unpack All . Alternatively, you can right-click the node of the packed components and choose Unpack.

Unpacked component FEMs

Applying filters

You can apply filters by right-clicking in the Simulation Navigator and choosing Properties .

On the Filter Settings tab of the Simulation Navigator Properties dialog box, you can prevent the following entities from appearing in the Simulation Navigator by selecting the check box next to the corresponding entity:

• Coordinate systems (CSYSs)

• Groups

• Fields

• Modeling objects

• Unloaded parts

• Excluded by reference sets

• Hidden objects in the graphics window

When a Simulation file is the work part and displayed part, you can filter the following additional entities:

• Regions

• Solver sets

Showing and hiding

In the Simulation Navigator, you can show or hide a single component by right-clicking its node and choosing one of the following:

Show

Shows the selected component.

Hide

Hides the selected component

Show Only

Hides all components other than the one selected.

To show or hide multiple components of interest, hold Ctrl and select each. Then right-click one of the nodes, choose Show and Hide, and then choose one of the following:

Hide

Hides the selected components.

Show

Shows the selected components.

Show Only

Hides all components other than those selected.

You can also show or hide all components at once by right-clicking in the Simulation Navigator and choosing Show All or Hide All.

Viewing a list of parts from an idealized view

In the Simulation Navigator, in the Simulation File View panel, you can easily identify CAD geometry in assembly FEMs that contain many components or subassemblies by viewing the list of parts from an idealized part point of view. To do so, right-click the Session node and choose Idealized Part View. When Idealized Part View is active, the Simulation File View panel lists the Simulation file at the top of the hierarchy, followed by the assembly FEM, subassembly FEMs, and idealized parts; with master parts appearing at the bottom of the hierarchy.

In the idealized part view, component and subassembly FEMs are excluded from the hierarchy so you can easily identify idealized and master parts.

Idealized part view

Session
mypart_sim1
mypart_assyfem1
mypart_fem1_i
mypart

For more information on simulation file views, see Simulation File View.

Where do I find it?

Expanding nodes

Application	Pre/Post
Prerequisite	A Simulation, FEM, or assembly FEM file as the work part and displayed part
Simulation Navigator	Right-click in the Simulation Navigator, choose Expand, and then choose one of the following commands:Expand All Components Expand to Work Expand to Loaded Expand to Visible Expand to Selected In the Simulation File View panel, right-click the Session node and choose one of the following options:Expand All Expand to Displayed Part****Expand to Work Part

Packing and unpacking components

Application	Pre/Post
Prerequisites	A Simulation or assembly FEM file as the work part and displayed part which contains component FEMs, component FEM representations, or subassembly FEMs with multiple occurrences.
Simulation Navigator	Right-click in the Simulation Navigator and choose:Pack All Unpack All Right-click the node of a FEM, component FEM, component FEM representation, or subassembly FEM and choose:Pack Unpack

Applying filters

Application	Pre/Post
Prerequisite	A Simulation, FEM, or assembly FEM file as the work part and displayed part
Simulation Navigator	Right-click in the Simulation Navigator and choose Properties
Location in dialog box	Filter Settings tab

Showing and hiding

Application	Pre/Post
Prerequisite	A Simulation, FEM, or assembly FEM file as the work part and displayed part
Simulation Navigator	Right-click the node of a component FEM, component FEM representation, or subassembly FEM and choose:Show Hide Show Only Right-click in the Simulation Navigator and choose:Show All****Hide All

Viewing a list of parts from an idealized view

Application	Pre/Post
Prerequisite	A Simulation, FEM, or assembly FEM file as the work part and displayed part
Simulation Navigator	In the Simulation File View panel, right-click the Session node and choose Idealized Part View .

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