When you create or edit a Nonlinear Structural Analysis or Thermal Analysis feature, many of the settings you choose will persist as the default values for future usage of the feature. For example, if you create a Pressure Load with a magnitude of 10 MPa, Nonlinear Structural Analysis will use 10MPa as the default value for the Magnitude field the next time you open the Pressure dialog box. In general, the default values that persist are in editable fields, check boxes, radio buttons, and combo boxes. Nonlinear Structural Analysis and Thermal Analysis do not customize names or support options to any user-defined default values.
Nonlinear Structural Analysis and Thermal Analysis record the persistent default values in the file ABQDialogSettings.CATPreferences, which is stored in the CATSettings directory. You can delete this file if you want to return to the original default behavior for dialog box default values.
The following sections describe the settings that persist for the dialog boxes shown.
Boundary conditions
| Displacement BC feature: all translational and rotational settings. |
Loads
| Pressure Load: Magnitude setting. |
| Point Load, Distributed Load, and Load Density: all Force and Moment component settings. |
| Gravity Load: all component value settings. |
| Rotational Body Force: rotational velocity and rotational acceleration settings. |
| Surface Heat Flux and Body Heat Flux: Magnitude settings. |
| Point Heat Flux: Magnitude setting. |
| Film Condition: reference sink temperature. |
Fields
| Initial Temperature and Temperature History features: Distribution Type and Magnitude settings. |
Job options
| Create Job dialog box: all settings on the Submission, General, and Memory tabbed pages. |
Model properties
| Mechanical Connection Behavior: All Tangential Behavior, Normal Behavior, and Hard Contact Pressure-Overclosure options. |
Assembly properties
| Contact Pairs: the Sliding formulation selection and the Stabilize rigid body modes check box; and all options on the General, Separation, and Advanced tabbed pages. |
| Fastened Pair: Position tolerance options, Adjust slave node initial position check box, and Formulation Options. |
| Spring Connection Property: Type, Definition, Local Orientation, and Stiffness Data. |