Overview

Welcome to the 3D Simulation for Manufacturing User's Guide!
This guide is intended for users who need to become quickly familiar with the product.

This overview provides the following information:

3D Simulation for Manufacturing in a Nutshell

DELMIA - 3D Simulation for Manufacturing is a powerful infrastructure product that contains the toolbars that enables users:
  • to create simulations, 
  • analyze components of the process 
  • analyze the simulation  in its entirety
  • control aspects of the simulation
  • run, compile, and replay simulations.

The commands that are part of the DELMIA - 3D Simulation for Manufacturing product appear in many DELMIA products.  They are described in one place, but referenced throughout our documentation. 

Before Reading this Guide

Before reading this guide, you should be familiar with basic Version 5 concepts such as document windows, standard and view toolbars. Therefore, we recommend that you read the Infrastructure User's Guide that describes generic capabilities common to all Version 5 products. It also describes the general layout of V5 and the interoperability between workbenches.

You may also like to read the following complementary product guides, for which the appropriate license is required:

  • Digital Process for Manufacturing (DPM) Process and Resource Definition User's Guide:  This guide provides the procedures for using the fundamental process planning tools available to users of DPM.  If you have never used a V5 DPM product before, you may wish to use this guide for information about setting up DPM options, such as filtering.

Getting the Most Out of this Guide

Because this guide documents an infrastructure product (that is, there is no unique workbench for 3D Simulation for Manfacturing; instead, you see the commands in other workbenches), this guide does not have Getting Started section.  The User Tasks section, which deals with handling all the product functions, is the primary source of information in this guide.

The Workbench Description section, which describes the 3D Simulation for Manufacturing workbench, and the Customizing section, which explains how to set up the options, will also prove useful.

Navigating in the Split View mode is recommended. This mode offers a framed layout allowing direct access from the table of contents to the information.