Tips & Tricks

How to avoid Self-Collision of Elastic1D objects

This article describes how to enable the check for self-collision of elastic1d objects in IC.IDO 13.1, and to avoid such self-penetration.

Running IC.IDO on a 4K monitor (Admin)

When running IC.IDO on a high DPI / 4K monitor, the Desktop UI layout looks "broken" and parts are unreadable. Since Windows 10 version 1803, there is a setting that helps to get the IC.IDO Desktop UI being displayed properly.

3D Combine

As existing 2D Combine in Visual-Mesh, 3D Combine has been introduced to undone refinements.

Geometrical drawbeads with Design Table

CATIA V5 offers powerful functionality to modify existing geometry “from outside” via DESIGN TABLE. PAM DIEMAKER for CATIA V5 also supports this procedure with some prerequisites.

New pattern in Visual-Mesh 3D split

The aim of this new 3D pattern is to allow users to refine mesh on a restricted area

Computation Manager - Basic & Advanced mode

The computation manager help users to generate the computation input with parameters adapted to the model to study

How to use Blank Holder functionality in PAM-DIEMAKER for CATIA V5

This video shows how to use Blank Holder functionnality to create mono surface Blank Holder shapes and combination of several Blank Holder patches.

Interface SYSWELD / ABAQUS

The objective of this interface is to perform a restart with ABAQUS using a SYSWELD computation. The difficulty is to transfer the metallurgical effects in a data structure which is not designed for it.

How to Obtain Best Results within Reasonable Time from a Heat Treatment Simulation

Heat treated parts are in most cases not clamped during heat treatment, for an FEM analysis, at least a static determined clamping is needed that does not allow any rigid body motion.

Stamping/HT Chaining of 3D Ring - Restart tool in Visual Heat Treatment

This article is to show effects of heat treatment on stresses when industrial mechanical parts are stamped (or welded) by 3 typical heat treatment steps: Heating, Quenching and Tempering. Tempering is generally considered effective in relieving stresses induced by quenching in addition to lowering hardness to within a specified range, or meeting certain mechanical property requirements.