Engines | CAE | Compare Design...
 

This option helps user to create Design comparison labels from Hotspot files to compare CAE results with already existing hotspots data.

This option will be enabled if a hotspot or grouped file is merged with the model

 
 

Existing Hotspot Data:

 

here "bracket2_design1.hotspot" file contains.

node          stress                 displacement
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
33              50777.1              1.2
173           100                      1000
201           200                      2000

and the results in vcz data are, "Stress" and "Displacements"

 
1.Click Engines | CAE | Compare Design...
2. Design Comparison Dialog will be popped up.

3. Choose Hotspot as "Bracket2.design2.hotspot"file

   here "Bracket2_design2.hotspot" file contains,

node              stress          displacement
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
33                  50777.1      1.2
1                    49955.1      1.867
45                 343              2324

        

 

  • Change Design Title if necessary

4. Click OK.

 

Displayed labels will be updated with new hotspot data. user can compare designs now. The labels in yellow color denotes the data for existing nodes. The labels in grey color denotes the data for nodes which are available in recent hotspot file but not available in earlier file. User can compare more than one hotspot data.

Note : the above comparison done for  hotspot files having the results names same as result names in loaded vcz.

There will be additional Cases that vcz result names won't match with hotspot result names. they are,

Additional Case 1 : Design comparison  using Node only hotspot files.

Additional Case 2 : Mismatched results name Hotspot files  (failure case)

 

Additional Case 1 : Design comparison  using Node only hotspot files.

Merge "Bracket2_nodes1.hotspot" file.

where Bracket2_nodes1.hotspot file contains only node ids without any results.

node
-----
33
1
171
2
95

and the merged hotspots are

                                         

 

Compare design with "Bracket2_nodes2.hotspot" file that contents the following,

node
--------
33
1
45

The compared design is will be displayed as following.

 

Additional Case 2 : Mismatched results name Hotspot files  (failure case)

Merge "Bracket2_results_A.hotspot"  file, it  contents the following,

node             Result1                 Result2
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
33                 50777.1                 1.2
173                100                        1000
201                 200                        2000

here, "Result1" and "Result2"  are not available as result names in bracket2.vcz, but still e can merge and see the hotspots for result1 and result2.

 

 

Do design comparison with "Bracket2_Results_B.hotspot" that contents

node          Result1          Result2
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
33             50777.1           1.2
1               49955.1           1.867
45             343                   2324

and the compared design will NOT be displayed. This is a failure case.

Because comparing design, needs result names in hotspot file has to match with result name in vcz file.