Managing laminates and layups

Laminate physical property

• In Laminate Composites, a laminate is a type of physical property.

• You can use the physical property management tools to create, copy, and manage your laminates.

• Laminates are evaluated when they are queried by the exporters and when you choose to do so.

• You can modify material properties after you define the laminate.

Global layup

• In Laminate Composites, a global layup is a simulation navigator object that points to global plies.

• You can create, copy, modify, and delete layups.

• Layups are evaluated only when they are queried by the exporters and when you update global layups.

• Layups can be active and inactive. Only active layups will be queried by the Update Global Layups and Zones command or by the exporters.

• You can modify global plies and material properties after you define the layup.

Caution:

Be careful when deleting materials. The laminates application does not lock materials nor provide warnings.

Learn more

Simcenter 3D Laminate Composites

Laminate definition methods

Zone-based workflow

Ply-based workflow

Look up more details

Laminate glossary

Coordinate systems for laminates

Material and ply orientation

Element type support for laminates

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