Tools Reference

The Tools manager node contains various objects that facilitate your analysis.

The following objects are available:

Annotations

An annotation is an object that you can use to add information to a snapshot display in the Graphics window. The following annotations are available by default:

  • Design Name: Displays the name of the respective design that is analysed within a design study.
  • Performance Value: Displays the performance value of a design given by Eqn. (547). The perforamans value is a rating value that allows you to judge the design.

Additional simple text annotations allow you to place customized text labels in snapshot displays.

For more information, see Annotations.

Color Maps

Color maps let you create custom color and shade configurations. For more details refer to Applying and Managing Color Maps.

Compute Resources

Compute resources define connections to local or remote computing resources including clusters. By default, a Direct compute resource named Default Direct is defined. For more details, refer to Compute Resource Reference.

Custom Trees

If you have a large simulation with many objects in the tree, custom trees allow you to quickly access the objects that you use most. You can set a custom tree to be the initial view that appears when you reopen a simulation file or a design manager project file.

For more information, see Using Custom Simulation Trees.

Filters

A filter uses queries to narrow groups of Simcenter STAR-CCM+ objects. A query consists of one or more conditional statements, also called "predicates", by which Simcenter STAR-CCM+ searches among the objects in the simulation.

For more information, see Object Filters.

Layouts

A window layout is an arrangement of windows in the graphics display, which consists of one or more modes. They can be used to save, restore, and edit a specified visual display.

For more information, see Preserving the Window Layout.

Tags

Tags can help you find and select objects easier. Once a tag has been created, it can be applied to one or more objects to flag them as being different from other objects.

For more information, see Tagging Simulation Objects.

Units

Simcenter STAR-CCM+ has flexible and customizable support for engineering units. The standard SI and USCS systems are built in, and you can add new units as desired.

For more information, see Engineering Units.

Views

In Simcenter STAR-CCM+, every scene has a camera to convert the three-dimensional objects in a scene into the two-dimensional image visible on the screen. The information defining the orientation, position and projection of the three-dimensional objects is stored in a view object.

For more information, see Controlling Scene View and Perspective.