1、Algor First TouchUI Autodesk icon style Autodesk UI style/Ribbon UI PV Designer should has consistent command UI for Single Nozzle and Multiple Nozzle Better display for loads/constraint added on faces. Currently were displaying the symbol (like arrows) on each node. This is a major architecture iss
2、ue rather than a UI issue. Algor does not have the concept of faces or elements during preprocessing. It only works with nodes and lines. Elements and faces are creating during the “decoding“ process which occurs immediately before the analysis is performed.Usability Many functions are embedded in t
3、he right-click context menu, not very consistent with Windows convention. These commands may better be added on toolbars. GT: Algor has a very wide spectrum of applications and applicable scenarios. I can understand why some commands are in context menus not in toolbar. Unless toolbar can be dynamic
4、ally updated with each application/analysis type, it may not be easy to capture everything in the toolbar. On the other hand, your observation should be carefully considered, so pls be specific on what commands in which scenarios, it can help PD for considering them as wishlist items The selection o
5、bject function is not convenient to use Please provide specific use casesJacky Can we provide an automatic object judging method when the user is trying to select? Take the following pictures as example:Click on the surface Click on the line Click on the vertexIt means we dont need to switch the sel
6、ection object frequently and just need to click on the object we want, and the program will help to take the correct object. Maybe itll be better to work together with the function of “Pre-select” mentioned by Jason below. Add “Cancel” or “X” button in some windows (e.g. PV Designer, sketch commands
7、, etc) GT: Agreed, I added an image below to show it would be nice to have OK or Close button after user is done with the input Apply hotkey for commands especially Select tools and Mesh tools Modify sketches after meshing This is possible. It is necessary to generate the mesh again after the change
8、s have been made to the sketch. The ability to set a same material while multi-select the parts with different element types Select boundary conditions commands first before the face selection More intelligent selection method Please provide specific use casesJason Take Inventor for example. In Inve
9、ntor, when moving mouse cursor to hover over an object, the object will be in pre-selection state. And after clicking left button of mouse, the object will be in selection state. Please refer to the figure below:By using the pre-selection, user can easily identify the object he wants to select.Also,
10、 Inventor offers the function of “Select Other” when there are more than one object in the position mouse cursor pointing at. See the figure below:By clicking the “-” or “-” button, user can switch the object from collection.Jacky This concern comes from defining the Customer Vector Selector. It is
11、used to assign the vector by two vertexes, but when I tries to specify the vertex, its not that clear for me to verify whether the vertex is the one I want or not . So, I think if it is possible that Algor can highlight or use some other method to emphasize the vertex instead of the pure tooltips (I
12、 got confused when I read the vertex number and its coordinate value) when the user hover the cursor on them. If possible, we may improve the function for Edge/Line/Surface in the same way. Please refer to the following pictures captured in Inventor and Algor. Better window Pan method through mouse
13、Please provide specific use cases. Currently, if you hold down the Ctrl key and press the middle mouse button, you will enter Pan mode.Jason Thanks, we didnt know this without your reminding. However, there seems no hotkey hints. Need to develop a workflow-guided process in UI to make sure the users
14、 will not miss something, such as analysis parametric setting More detail tooltips Burn-through the selected surface in the graphics window when selecting it in the browser Remember the dialog position after relocating the dialog Provide the method to find the surface from Browser to Graphic, such a
15、s “Find in Window” in Inventor, its very useful for some small faceGT: Speaking of surfaces, as Inventor models are feature based, it would be great if under Part, Features are listed, then list surfaces, see image below For Orbit command, provide a convenient method to set the orbit center. (in inv
16、entor, there is Constraint orbit) When in Rotate mode, if you right click on a vertex, you can set it as the center of rotation. Enhancement for the measure tool, now the measure in Algor seems only works after Meshing, for the sketch and Model before meshing should support Make a list instead of a
17、drop down for users input for different sets of FEA objects The statement “Beams on surface 1 will assign the local 2 axis in the Y direction; beams on surface 2 will assign the local 2 axis in the z direction” should be somehow presented in UI, otherwise itll be hard for users to understand for the
18、 first time.Functionalities Algor-Inventor interoperability need to be improved Better capabilities for model diagnosis and fixing when feature matching failure is detected Provide some simple function to fix the Model with bad importing result, like stitch the gap surface, (Inventor have CE and sol
19、id edit environment to fix the simple translator issue) Can modeling tools in Algor to be enhanced? Like support feature level exclusion GT: This is another reason I would suggest to list feature under parts before surfaces Performance to be improved ono Launchingo Importing big modelso Meshing big
20、modelso Associativity update (Algor needs to re-mesh)o UIo Modifying element definition and materialo Invoking the “Enhance Surface Mesh” dialog and then close it without doing any other operations, Algor will take a long time to activate current view No CER Cannot calculate torsion stress in 2D Can
21、not apply moment on the surface Should add some other general Fluid Flow materials (hydraulic liquid, petrol) GT: This should be part of Inventor material library too Stability. Algor crashes a lot. More types of Multiphysics analysis GT: More testing for the existing functions Enhance the contact d
22、etection ability, especially in Automatic Detecting Enrich the contact type, such as sliding/no separation in AFEA Enhance the user-defined coordination (maybe along with the enhancement of point capture capability) To add face loads in frequency response analysis GT: as stated by Jim, this requires
23、 major architectural change. At this point, it should at least not require users to inquire nodal info and manually write down the numbers, then manually input numbers. For example, if doing frequency response analysis, it should allow users to select nodes, apply force to certain nodes, then this s
24、et of nodes should listed automatically, see image belowAutomation It is not convenient to run single case instead of running all cases. User has to modify “.inp” file manually. No GUI for the automation tool.Help System Not all the Help button links to help document. For example, the help button in the figure below It would be helpful for users if there are any Workflow Animations in Help There are no enough help document for “Fluid Flow-Open Channel”
