Tips & Tricks

What is the FMM BEM domain box, and what are the kD limits?
What is the FMM BEM domain box, and what are the kD limits?
Ricardo Alvarez Vibro-Acoustics

3D scene tree in secondary screen
Sometimes when VA One is used in a secondary screen the items in the 3D scene tree cannot be selected, in this article we'll show you how to fix this issue.
Ricardo Alvarez Vibro-Acoustics

Visualize modal animation inside acoustic cavity
When the acoustic modes are animated, the default will animate the skin only, but it is possible to visualize the interior of the cavity too.
Ricardo Alvarez Vibro-Acoustics

What is the difference between using a cavity constraint vs. a Diffuse Acoustic Field source?
If I apply a Diffuse Acoustic Field (DAF) source on a panel instead of constraining the pressure in an adjacent cavity, will I obtain the same results? Setup: Two models: SPL constrained cavity - panel - cavity vs. DAF on panel with Semi-Infinite Fluid sink attached - cavity
Ricardo Alvarez Vibro-Acoustics

How do I create an SEA cavity using shrinkwrap?
How to create FE acoustic cavities with complex shapes
Ricardo Alvarez CFD, Vibro-Acoustics

How can apply anechoic termination to a muffler tailpipe modeled with FE acoustics?
I have an acoustic FE model of a muffler/silencer. I would like to apply an anechoic termination to the tailpipe faces. How can this be applied?
Ricardo Alvarez Vibro-Acoustics

Visualize acoustic/solid mesh in VA One
VA One will typically display the skin of a 3D mesh of acoustic element. It is possible to display the full mesh and also animate the results while visualizing the 3D mesh.
Ricardo Alvarez Vibro-Acoustics

How to manually set the megawords variable in Rayon?
The Rayon solver occasionally will restart the analysis if the megawords variable is too small. Use these simple instructions to increase/adjust Megawords value.
Ricardo Alvarez Vibro-Acoustics

How to call a script within a script
When using VA One developer's kit and new scripts are being created it is useful to call a script within a script. Here we show you how to achieve this.
Ricardo Alvarez Vibro-Acoustics

Static comfort – Different encrypted data display
How to display encrypted occupant when other data are also encrypted in the model.
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