Create Point Goals

• On the ribbon, click Flow Simulation > Insert > Goals > Point Goals.

• On the toolbars, click Point Goals on the Flow Simulation Features toolbar.

• In the menu, select Tools > Flow Simulation > Insert > Point Goals.

• In the Flow Simulation Analysis tree, right-click the Goals item and select Insert Point Goals.

• Reference . Points are defined by the selected geometrical features.

  In the graphics area select a vertex, point, planar face or edge on which you intend to specify point goals. These objects appear in the Points, Vertices, Planar Faces and Edges .

  Tip

  You can select any points and/or vertexes as reference objects. Also you can select edges and/or planar faces as reference object, in this case reference points will be set at the geometric centers of the selected objects.

  To remove a reference object from this list, select it in the list and press Delete or right-click it and select Delete or select it again in the graphics area or in the flyout FeatureManager design.

• Pick from Screen . Allows you to select points on a plane or planar face in the graphics area.

  1. In the graphics area or in the flyout FeatureManager design tree select a Plane or Planar Face .

     The only requirement for assemblies is that you must select planes that belong to the top-level assembly.

     You can specify the Offset  reference plane by using the slider or typing the offset value in the box.

  2. Click Pick Points  to allow the point selection.

     Tip

     We recommend to use the Normal To view while you select points.

  3. Click at the selected plane or face in the graphics area to select a point on the plane. The point is automatically added to the table. The table contains all the selected points.

     To remove a point, select the point in the table and click Delete Point . You can also remove all points from the table by clicking Delete All .

• Coordinates . Allows you to specify a set of points by creating a table with points coordinates.

  To add a point to the table , type X, Y and Z Coordinate of the point and click Add Point . You can edit point coordinates directly in the table .

  To edit point coordinates, double-click the cell and type the desired value.

  To remove a point, select the point in the table and click Delete Point . You can also remove all points from the table by clicking Delete All .

  While specifying points coordinates you can also import data from *.csv and *.txt files. The values in the file must be separated by commas or semicolons. To import data from the file, click Import File and then select the appropriate file.

  You can also copy coordinate values from Microsoft Excel. Create a table of points in Microsoft Excel. The x, y and z coordinates must be specified one after another in a row (the same as in the table). Copy the Microsoft Excel table into the Clipboard, then click on the table in the dialog and press Ctrl+V. All points that are inside the Computational Domain will be inserted into the table.

Select the Use for Conv. (Use for Convergence Control) check box if you want the goal’s convergence to be included as a condition of finishing the calculation. If you clear this check box, the goal’s convergence is used for information only so the calculation may be stopped before the goal is converged. See “Finishing the Calculation” for details.

• If a goal is a component of vector parameter (“Velocity (X)”, “Velocity (Y)”, “Velocity (Z)”, etc.), select the Coordinate System  in which these goals are calculated.

  By default, the Global Coordinate System is selected.

  Tip

  You can replace the default coordinate system by selecting your coordinate system in the flyout FeatureManager design tree.

  To create a coordinate system, click Insert > Reference Geometry > Coordinate System.

Interpolate. When checked (by default), turns on the interpolation of parameter values within the computational mesh cells. Clear this option to switch the interpolation off. In this case the parameter values will be equal to values at the centers of cells.

The default template is an abbreviated name of goal’s type (“PG” for Point Goals) followed by <Parameter> and <Number>, where <Parameter> is the goal parameter and <Number> is a sequential number of the goal. When goals are created, <Parameter> is replaced by the goal parameter’s name (e.g. “Static Pressure”) and <Number> is replaced by a sequential number of the goal (for example, if the goal named “PG Static Pressure 1” already exists, the new goal will be named “PG Static Pressure 2” and so on). You can combine these standard elements in any order and add any appropriate characters to the template.

To add a new standard element to the template, click the Parameter  or Number  button.

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Click Keep Visible  before clicking OK  to keep the dialog open and define more point goals.