Dynamic Evaluation in Thermal
This drop-down menu appears when you click the Time Eval check box on the Measure Definition dialog box. Use this menu to select a time evaluation method.
The menu contains all or some of the following items:
• At Each Step—Calculates the value of the measure at each time step for a transient thermal analysis. Creo Simulate does not report the measure values in the summary file, but you can plot these measures as a function of time through the Results command.
• Maximum—Calculates the maximum value for a transient thermal analysis. This option is not active if the Spatial Evaluation method is Minimum or Maximum Abs. Creo Simulate reports this value in the summary file.
• Minimum—Calculates the minimum value for a transient thermal analysis. This option is not active if the Spatial Evaluation method is Maximum or Maximum Abs. Creo Simulate reports this value in the summary file.
• Maximum Abs—Creo Simulate calculates the maximum absolute value for a transient thermal analysis. This option is not active if the Spatial Evaluation method is Maximum or Minimum, or if the Component is Magnitude. Creo Simulate reports this value in the summary file.
• At Time—Calculates the value of a measure at a time you specify. The measure is calculated only for a transient thermal analysis.
If you select Maximum, Minimum, or Maximum Abs as an evaluation method, the second drop-down menu appears:
• Over Analysis—Calculates the value over all the time steps of the transient thermal analysis.
• Over Time Range—Calculates the value over a specified time range of the transient thermal analysis.
If you select the Time Stamp check box, Creo Simulate creates a time stamp measure that saves the time at which a maximum, minimum, or max abs condition occurs.