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Tutorial Lesson 1 - Behavioral Modeling Basics

Behavioral Modeling is objective-driven modeling where Pro / ENGINEER geometry can be analyzed and optimized depending upon specific design constraints and requirements. Behavioral Modeling allows this design intent to be captured into analysis features that can automatically complete the iterations and number crunching. Many problems that were almost impossible to solve can quickly and easily be solved within Pro / engineer.

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Tutorial Lesson 1 - Behavioral Modeling Basics

Behavioral Modeling is objective-driven modeling where Pro / ENGINEER geometry can be analyzed and optimized depending upon specific design constraints and requirements. Behavioral Modeling allows this design intent to be captured into analysis features that can automatically complete the iterations and number crunching. Many problems that were almost impossible to solve can quickly and easily be solved within Pro / engineer.

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BEHAVIORAL MODELING VOLUME STUDY (BE1_WILDFIRE3)

Tutorial Lesson 1 Behavioral Modeling Basics


What is Behavioral Modeling? Behavioral Modeling is objective-driven modeling where Pro/ENGINEER geometry can be analyzed and optimized depending upon specific design constraints and requirements. Typical engineering design consists of countless iteration until the design meets the requirements that have been developed for it. Behavioral Modeling allows this design intent to be captured into analysis features that Pro/ENGINEER can automatically complete the iterations and number crunching, thus drastically decreasing the design time and improving the quality of the final product.

Why use Behavioral Modeling? For many engineers, they know what the major requirements of the project must be. However, as the design process evolves geometry of the design changes. The problem with traditional solid modeling is capturing the important and critical factors into the model. By using Behavioral Modeling, factors such as weight, surface area, and volume to name a few can be captured as features in the part or assembly that can drive the overall geometry of the part. Many problems that were almost impossible to solve can quickly and easily be solved within Pro/ENGINEER.

What Types of analyses can be performed? There are many different types of analysis that can be performed with behavioral modeling. Below are just a few types of studies:

Volume and Surface Area Center of Gravity and Mass Angles of Reflection and Refraction Buoyancy Packaging Motion And many More!

What is a Feasibility Study? This is a type of behavioral modeling analysis that will determine if a specific design requirement can be met.

What is a Sensitivity Study? A Sensitivity Study will give insight to the designer as to how varying only one specific dimension will affect the overall design.

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BEHAVIORAL MODELING VOLUME STUDY (BE1_WILDFIRE3) What is an Optimization Study? Optimization is the heart of behavioral modeling and allows the designer to vary geometry through a specified range to meet certain design criteria such as specific volumes or minimized mass.

Tutorial Lesson 2 - Analysis Scope


One of the most important factors to creating a comprehensive behavioral modeling analysis is preparing the model for change and correctly outlining the requirements and goals of the design. In this tutorial, we are designing a speaker box for a FroTime 12 Super Bass Sub-Woofer. We know the basic shape that we want, however, according to the speaker manufacturer; the best resonating bass will come from an enclosure with 2100 in3 of internal volume and maximum internal surface area. MODEL SETUP For our analysis, we created a representation of the internal space of the enclosure by creating a dummy part called inside_volume.prt. This will allow us to simplify the analysis by only needing to perform it upon a single part, rather than the entire assembly. Keep in mind, there are many different ways to perform this type of analysis, this is just one way that we decided to do it. The rest of the parts (Top, Bottom, Sides, etc) are driven by the changes to the inside_volume.prt. Therefore, when the volume is optimized to meet our requirements, we will just have to open up the assembly and regenerate to pass the changes through to each individual part. For testing purposes, we are not concerned with the volume that the speaker encompasses inside the enclosure. DESIGN REQUIREMENTS There are several dimensions that drive the geometry of the part. However, due to design considerations, the customer will not let us change the height or depth of the enclosure at all. They did give us some leeway on the following dimensions: Current Width Step Height Firing Angle 14.00 3.00 30 Minimum 13.00 2.00 25 Maximum 17.00 3.50 35

With the above restrictions in our design, the following table illustrates our goals for the analysis: Volume Current Optimal Design 1938 in3 2100 in3 Surface Area 962 in2 Maximum

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Tutorial Lesson 3 - Volume Study Behavioral Modeling


** Begin by opening up the assembly and investigating the structure of this assembly. Also, change the display of the inside_volume.prt so that it is in wireframe mode. Make sure your working directory is the newly created BE1 directory that contains all of the necessary files! **

FILE Menu: #Open, <speaker_box.asm>, #Open

**First select the inner block, then **

VIEW Menu: #Display Style, #Wireframe

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BEHAVIORAL MODELING VOLUME STUDY (BE1_WILDFIRE3) ** Go ahead and unexplode the assembly and set it back to the default view. We will return to this assembly after the completion of the analysis. **

VIEW Menu: #Explode, #Unexplode VIEW Menu: #Orientation, #Standard Orientation

** Next step is to open up the inside_volume.prt part file and begin to setup our analysis. Keep in mind, this part is just a general representation of the inside volume of the assembly. Also, there are several ways to perform this type of analysis; this is just one of them. **

WINDOW Menu: #Close FILE Menu: #Open, <inside_volume.prt>, #Open VIEW Menu: #Orientation, #Standard Orientation

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** If your Model Tree is not open, go ahead and open it. Note how this part really only has 2 geometric features: a protrusion and a cut. This first step we will perform is to run a quick analysis to determine the current volume and surface area of this part. **

ANALYSIS Menu: #Model Analysis, #Mass Properties MASS PROPERTIES Dialog Box: #Feature, <Analysis>,

** Your analysis should look like the following image. In the proceeding table, record the current VOLUME and SURFACE AREA of the part so you can note the changes. **

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BEHAVIORAL MODELING VOLUME STUDY (BE1_WILDFIRE3)

MASS PROPERTIES Dialog Box:


Current Goal 2100 in3 Maximized

Volume Surface Area

* By selecting Feature and naming it Analysis, you just created an Analysis Feature. This is an actual Pro/ENGINEER feature and is at the heart of Behavioral Modeling. This will capture geometric properties about the model into a feature. **

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** The following image displays the additional properties created from this Analysis Feature. **

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