Search Tool Dialog Box
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Find command to open the Search Tool dialog box. Use the search tool to search for simulation entities, define rules, and specify the search criteria for your search.
Find command to open the Search Tool dialog box. Use the search tool to search for simulation entities, define rules, and specify the search criteria for your search.The Search Tool dialog box includes the following items:
• Look for — The default selection is Simulation Modeling Object.
• Look in — This is available only for assemblies. Select the component or assembly from the list in which you want to search for simulation entities. Select Include submodels if you want to search for simulation entities in the submodels of the assembly.
In Creo Simulate, you use two tabs—Attributes and Status—to examine the simulation entities in your model. The Attributes tab enables you to search for classes of simulation entities, and the Status tab lets you search for simulation objects on the layers you have created in your model.
The Attributes tab on the Search Tool dialog box allows you to define the rule for Creo Simulate to use when searching for simulation entities in the model you have selected. You can search by selecting a rule class from Name, Type, Expression, or Property. Depending on the rule class you select, the fields in the Criteria area of the dialog box change.
• Name — Search for simulation entities by Name. Specify the search criteria by selecting the required Comparison operation from the available list. Select or enter the required value or manually type the name for the simulation entity in the Value list. Based on the model you have selected, the fields in the Value list are populated at runtime. Creo Simulate searches the model for simulation entities that match the values specified in the Comparison and Value fields.
For example, if you have selected is equal to as the comparison operation and the value specified is BEAM1, Creo Simulate searches for entities that have the name BEAM1 and displays the search results in the “items found” window. Additionally, Creo Simulate highlights these items in the Model Tree.
• Type — Search for simulation entities by Type. Specify the search criteria by selecting the required Comparison operation, the Category type that the entity belongs to, and the Value of the entity from the lists.
• Expression — Search for simulation entities by Expression. For simulation entities, real number is the only parameter available in the search tool. Specify the search criteria by selecting the required Symbol, Comparison operation, and the Value of the entity from the lists. The Symbol field allows you to search for simulation entities by parameter names. You can select only the parameters that are used by the simulation entity in the model. Creo Simulate searches the model for simulation entities that match the values specified in the Symbol, Comparison, and Value fields and displays the search results in the items found: window.
Select the Designated Only option if you want to search for simulation entities that have designated symbols. Only those entities that are marked as Designate on the Parameters dialog box are available for selection in the Symbol list.
• Property — Search for simulation entities by Property. Specify the search criteria by selecting the required Property type and the Comparison operation. Select or manually enter the value for the entity in the Value field.
For the entity value, you can type an alphabetic character followed by a wild card. For example, B*. The wild card is represented by a *.
You use the Status tab to examine the contents of a layer that you have defined for your model. When you are working in Creo Simulate, the Status tab has only one active option button, Layer. The Layer option button lists all the layers available in the model. Layer is a rule that allows you to search for simulation entities in any of the layers in your model by selecting the operation from the Comparison field and the desired layer from the Value field.
The Value list contains all layers in your model regardless of the method you used to create the layer—the Layer tool or the Search Tool query builder—or whether you created these layers in Creo Parametric or in Creo Simulate. Select Add New option to include the new layer in the Query Builder.
You can also use the Options button in the Search Tool dialog box to search for simulation entities in the model you have selected by building a query, saving the query, highlighting and displaying selected items, and displaying the filtered selections.
Use the Find Now option in the Search Tool dialog box to display a list of simulation objects that the filter finds and, in case of only one matching object, highlights the object. In case of more than one object, you can select an object, and Creo Simulate highlights that object. You can view the search results in the items found: window. Use the New Search option to start a new search by defining rules, operations, and criteria for the new search operation.
Return to Search Tool.