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Overview
Creo Ansys Simulation and Creo Ansys Simulation Advanced are simulation tools for designers and engineers. They integrate Ansys' advanced capabilities for thermal, structural, and modal analyses into Creo, providing an easy-to-use, high-fidelity simulation solution that supports design refinement and validation.
Creo Ansys Simulation allows for early insight into product behavior, reducing costs, and speeding time to market. The advanced extension Creo Ansys Simulation Advanced provides even more benefits to users. With Creo Ansys Simulation Advanced, engineers can now run multiphysics studies. Users can now easily run structural and thermal studies together to model thermal expansion. It also provides powerful and robust contact options, expanding use cases for nonlinear contact and nonlinear materials.
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Which version of Creo ANSYS Simulation is right for you?
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Capabilities |
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| Static Structural Analysis | ✔ | ✔ |
| Finite Element Modeling Idealization |
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| Automatic Meshing | ✔ | ✔ |
| Results Display & Reporting | ✔ | ✔ |
| H-Element Technology | ✔ | ✔ |
| Modal Analysis | ✔ | ✔ |
| Steady State Thermal Analysis | ✔ | ✔ |
| Linear Contact Analysis | ✔ | ✔ |
| Large Deformation | ✔ | ✔ |
| Midsurface Shell Compression | ✔ | ✔ |
| Joints | ✔ | ✔ |
| Non-Linear Contact | ✔ | |
| Non-Linear Materials | ✔ | |
| Transient Structural | ✔ | |
| Combined Structural/Thermal | ✔ |
Key Features and Benefits
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Features
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Structural Boundary Conditions • Fixed Support |
Thermal Boundary Conditions • Boundary Conditions specified on geometry |
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Results • Basic and Advanced results |
Meshing, Element Types and Idealizations • Automated Physics-aware and part based meshing process |
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Connections
• Contact Interfaces • Automatic or manual contact definition • Multi-surface to multi-surface definition • Bonded or no separation types • Joints • Geometry based definition (edges, points and surfaces) • References to ground • Multiple types • Fixed, hinge, translational, slot, cylindrical, universal, spherical and planar |
General Modeling Tools
• Units Manager - Commonly used units for all quantities available
• Creation of custom units and unit systems
• Model definition in user selected units
• Results in user selected units
• Surface Regions
• Defined by sketch or curves
• Coordinate Systems
• History-based, associative, parametric features
• User defined Cartesian coordinate systems
• Typical metals and plastics included
• Storage of user defined materials
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Process Tools
• Creo Ansys Model is an integral part of CAD model and fully supported by Windchill® (WC 12.1) • Results optionally uploaded to Windchill and automatically associated to the model (WC 12.1) • 4-Core parallel solution solver • Export to Ansys Workbench/Mechanical • Save APR format • Archive that contains the model and simulation data |
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Non-Linear Contact
Available in Advanced only • New contact types • Frictional, frictionless and rough • Contact Behavior can be specified • Grouping of contacts • Additional Settings • Formulation • Detect contacts by radius or factor • Stiffness factor and more • Preview Simulation for all contact options • Corresponding contact related results • Creo Ansys Advanced license required |
Non-Linear Materials
Available in Advanced only
• Neo-Hookean hyperelasticity • Usable for plastics and rubber materials • Non linear stress strain behavior with large deformations • Linear orthotropic elasticity • Includes transverse isotropic material • Usable for woods, rolled materials and any material that depends on direction • Bi-linear plasticity • Usable in large strain analysis • Defined using ‘Linear Hardening’ option in material definition • Creo Ansys Advanced license required |
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Combined Structural and Thermal Transient Structural |
Transient Structural • Combined physics of Thermal and Structural |
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