About Categories

A default set of categories is provided with a standard installation of Optimization Process Composer as described below. The description of the kind of simulation data that are stored in each of the categories is only a suggestion. You can create and manage categories that meet the needs of your scenario. In addition, you can specify an impact attribute for a category.

Definition

Product

Stores documents or objects related to the design of the product, such as CAD data or similar product-specific data.

Specifications

Stores documents or objects that provide reference information for running the simulation process, such as requirements, scripts, documents containing dimensions or material data, instructions, or best practices.

Results

Stores documents or objects that represent the results of the simulation process or activity, such as results files, updated CAD models, reports, animations, and plots.

Additional categories that are available with the standard installation include the following:

Context

Stores documents or objects that define the context in which this particular simulation process runs, such as parts, loads, and boundary conditions.

Validated Data

Stores the data that were specified before the simulation process was created, such as engineering targets and performance attributes.

Internal Data

Stores documents that contain intermediate results for a simulation process or activity, such as a restart file or a replay file. In most cases the data are stored temporarily and may not exist when the simulation process completes.

You can use an impact attribute to determine when a simulation process or activity is out of date with regards to the data that it uses (since the data can be modified externally in some way).

The attribute indicates that the simulation process or activity should be run again to obtain new results. You can define an impact for a category to designate that all of its content is either input to the simulation process or activity. Similarly, you can define an impact that designates all content is output from the simulation process or activity, or you can designate both (input/output).