Simulation Navigator in a Nutshell
The Simulation Navigator extends traditional
Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) concepts by providing capabilities
that are specific to simulations and tools that allows you to navigate
on realistic simulations.
A simulation contains the data and processes that reproduce the
scenario you are trying to simulate.
The Simulation Navigator takes advantage of PLM
capabilities, such as versioning, impact graphs, and lifecycle management, and allows you to:
- Search for existing simulations
- Navigate on simulations (exploring, expanding and opening)
- Manage simulations by performing various PLM operations
- Navigate from a product to a simulation to find the related
simulations
- Manage documents within simulations.
The Simulation Navigator allows you to navigate on VPM simulations, such as simulations created in the DesignSight and General Structural Analysis workbenches, and SIMULIA Scenario Definition simulation processes, activities, jobs, and documents.
Before Reading this Guide
Before reading this guide, you should be familiar with basic Version 6 concepts such as the Bar, the Compass, document windows, and standard and view toolbars. Therefore, we recommend that you read the Infrastructure User's Guide that describes generic capabilities common to all Version 6 products. It also describes the general layout of Version 6 and the interoperability between workbenches.
Getting the Most Out of this Guide
To get the most out of this guide, we suggest that you start reading and performing the step-by-step user tasks, which cover all product functionalities.
Interface Description, which describes the commands that are specific to Simulation Navigator, and Accessing Settings, which explains how to customize settings, will also certainly prove useful.