LiveLink™ for PTC Creo Parametric™ Updates

For users of LiveLink™ for PTC Creo Parametric™, COMSOL Multiphysics® software version 5.3a brings an updated tutorial model and extends support to new versions of certain CAD file formats. Read more about this LiveLink™ for PTC Creo Parametric™ update below.

Updated Tutorial Model: Electrical Heating in a Busbar Assembly

This tutorial model now analyzes a busbar assembly designed to conduct a direct current from a current source to the anode in an electrolysis process. During synchronization, selections are generated in the COMSOL Multiphysics® model based on the materials assigned to the components in the PTC Creo Parametric™ assembly. The selections are then used to assign materials to the geometry in the COMSOL Multiphysics® model. A parametric sweep over two-dimensional parameters in the PTC Creo Parametric™ assembly has been included to study the influence of the geometry on the physics phenomena, visualized through a Table Surface plot in the results.

The updated Electrical Heating in a Busbar Assembly model using LiveLink™ for PTC® Creo® Parametric™. The synchronized geometry and the 3D Surface Plot of the temperature distribution in the busbar assembly. The 2D plot generated after the parametric sweep can help in selecting geometric parameter combinations that keep the maximum temperature in the copper components below the desired maximum value, 90 degrees Celsius in this case.
The synchronized geometry and the 3D Surface Plot of the temperature distribution in the busbar assembly. The 2D plot generated after the parametric sweep can help in selecting geometric parameter combinations that keep the maximum temperature in the copper components below the desired maximum value, 90 degrees Celsius in this case.

Updated Support for New CAD File Format Versions

The CAD file import and export functionality has been extended to support new versions for the following file formats:

Read from File

  • Parasolid®: (.x_t, .xmt_txt, .x_b, .xmt_bin) up to V30.0
  • ACIS®: (.sat, .sab, .asat, .asab) up to R25, 2018 1.0
  • AutoCAD® (.dwg, .dxf) up to 2017
  • CATIA® V5 up to 2017
  • PTC Creo Parametric™ up to 4.0

Write to File

  • Parasolid®: (.x_t, x_b) V30.0

You can view a complete list of supported CAD file formats in the CAD Specification Chart under the "Read from File, CAD" and "Write to File" sections.


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