Wouldn’t it be great if your CAD software automatically determined the best design for you? Think of the time and effort you’d save. That’s exactly what Pro/ENGINEER Behavioural Modeling Extension (BMX) does for you, by delivering three key capabilities: – design studies, smart models, and an open environment that uses calculated results from external programs.

 Behavioural Modeling Features

• Behavioural Modeling enables you to solve real-world problems and meet a variety of design goals by applying multiple objectives to a design scenario.
• Optimize designs to satisfy cost-reducing requirements such as decreasing a product’s weight to minimize costs.
• Conduct feasibility studies to determine if there is a feasible solution that meets the design constraints of the model.
• Perform sensitivity studies to evaluate “what-if” scenarios to understand the impact of changes.
• Graphically review the response of the model to virtual testing, making results easier to interpret from within the Behavioural Modeling extension in Pro/ENGINEER.
• Apply statistical attributes to dimensions and parameters, enabling analysis of statistical effects on any measurable goal in the model.
• Adapt to design changes instantly, while preserving the design intent.
• Capture, group and store comprehensive design measurements as analysis features that can drive the design.
• Leverage the power of analysis features to ensure that design changes do not alter the design intent.
• Flexibly iterate the design, trusting the analysis feature’s embedded intelligence to ensure engineering criteria is maintained.
• Track measurements, such as volume, mass or minimum clearance, during a structural analysis of solid geometries and quilts.
• Measure force and torque while analyzing mechanisms.
• Access Pro/ENGINEER Mechanica parameters, such as stress or displacement within Behavioural Modeling.
• Use results from external applications such as PTC Mathcad to drive analysis features.
• Create custom measurements for user-defined analyses.
• Capture custom measurements that are not easily dimensioned, such as cross sectional area or light reflectivity.
• Monitor critical design measurements and safety margins against design requirements.

Behavioural Modeling Benefits

• Improve innovation by exploring numerous scenarios that meet your design criteria.
• Clearly understand the impact of design changes, and prohibit inconsistent behaviour
• Reduce product costs by optimizing your design to meet multiple objectives, such as maintaining a product’s strength while reducing its weight.
• Save time by automatically iterating your design to meet your design requirements.

Reduce errors by using the results from external tools to drive your design directly, without manually transferring data.