About Experience Content

When you run a simulation, the app produces simulation results as well as a set of experience content. Experience content includes a default set of model, scenario, and results data for native simulations (that is, for simulations created in the 3DEXPERIENCE platform). It also contains a default set of contour and symbol plots for simulations created from imported .sim file (or "orphan") results.

When you edit your FEM representation and model plots, you can generate experience content. You can customize the experience content by selecting a specific subset of plots to include in the generated data. In addition, you can generate this data for the entire model as a whole or for the individual parts in the entire model. The number of parts in your model might impact performance.

Your experience content preferences are included as part of the simulation. When you save the simulation, this data becomes available for viewing in the 3DPlay app, Physics Simulation Review app, and the Creative Experience app. You can view the data on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform or on mobile devices.

Note: If you generated experience content for the entire model at once, you cannot select the individual parts in the lightweight viewer apps (3DPlay, Physics Simulation Review, and Creative Experience).

Experience content data is available in both FEM Representation and Simulation Results contexts.

Use with FEM Representations

You can include or exclude predefined contents such as mesh, mesh quality, material, and available model plots in your experience content. In this way, you can share only the most important information with other users. The types of data that you can include in experience content depend on how you created your simulation:

For native simulations, you can include all the data from an individual category (such as model, scenario, and results). Within each category, you can include or exclude individual items like the mesh, step details, or plots. If your simulation includes multiple analysis cases, you can include experience content for any of them. You can choose a different set of experience content data for each analysis case.
For imported results, you can include individual plots in the experience content, including the undeformed model plot. Scenario information is not available.

Experience content produced for native FEM Representations can be accessed only in Physics Simulation Review.

Use with Simulation Results Data

You can include or exclude model plots in your experience content to share only the most important information with other users. You can also enable or disable animation for the plots you include in the experience content.

By default, only a subset of the results data in a native simulation is generated as experience content. Results plots are included for selected steps only. Within each step, a subset of the available plots is included in the experience content. You can customize the results data in the experience content by changing the set of steps from which you publish plots.

When you specify the plots to include as experience content, you can customize the following for each plot:

The number of modes (for frequency, mode extraction, or buckling steps).
The support decomposition type, that is, the method of selecting the subset of results data. You can decompose the results data using the display groups in the default configuration, or you can decompose the results data pertaining to individual display groups. Finally, you can decompose the results data for the whole model as a single block or by part. Whole model by part is the default support.
The animation state, the animation mode, and the number of frames.
The scale factor for the plotted variable.

You can create or animate all of the available plots at once, or select only specific plots for creation and animation. In addition, you can copy the custom values specified for one plot to all other plots. For example, you can set the scale factor for all plots to match the scale factor used in the displacement plot.

Note: To properly visualize Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) content in 3DPlay, Physics Simulation Review and or Creative Experience, you must enable the Show SPH surface option in the plot creation dialog box before you generate experience content. To compare results between 3DPlay and Physics Results Explorer, you must deactivate constraint elements before you generate the experience content since the app filters these elements out during the process.

Default Experience Content Generation for Steps and Load Cases

If you do not explicitly specify individual steps or load cases, Physics Results Explorer generates a subset of steps and load cases according to the following rules:


Number of Simulation Steps	Number of Load Cases	Output Generated For
≤ 3	≤ 5	All steps and all load cases
≥ 3	≤ 5	Last step only and all load cases
≤ 3	≥ 5	All steps and the first five load cases only
≥ 3	≥5	Last step only and the first five load cases