Load Step: FILM

Load Step: FILM: Define Tab

In the Define tab, define *FILM cards on individual elements or geometry (surfaces) as well as on element sets.

For Define FILM on, the following options are available:

Elements or geometry
Element sets

The layout of the Define tab changes, based on your selection.

Define FILM On: Elements or Geometry

Use the Define FILM on: Elements or geometry option to define FILM on individual elements or geometric surfaces.

FILM loads created on elements have special graphical display in Engineering Solutions. Loads created on geometric entities like surfaces are automatically mapped to FEA mesh on export. You can also map them using the Map Loads on Geometry button.

The Define tab for Define FILM on: Elements or geometry has the following buttons:

Table 1.
Button	Action
Define from Pressures panel	Opens the Pressures panel, from which you can create and update FILM. It only allows you to define the reference sink temperature. The film coefficient needs to be defined separately. To create a FILM on elements, go to the create subpanel, select elems using the switch, pick the desired elements from the Engineering Solutions graphics, click nodes, pick two or three nodes from a face of a selected element, input the magnitude (sink temperature), and click create. To create a pressure on geometry, go to the create subpanel, select surfs using the switch, pick the desired geometry from the Engineering Solutions graphics, input the magnitude (sink temperature), and click create. Note: Loads created on geometric entities are automatically mapped to FEA mesh on export. You can also map them using the Map Loads on Geometry button. You can also update an existing FILM from the update subpanel. While you are in the Pressure panel, press the H key to view panel-specific help. When you are finished creating or updating boundary conditions, click return and the Step Manager will be updated with the new loads.
Map Loads on Geometry	Opens the Engineering Solutions Loads on Geom panel to map loads on geometry to FEA mesh entities. Click the Map loads button to map all geometric loads in the current load collector to FEA entities. Note: You can also pick other load collectors by clicking the loadcols button and map loads in all of them together. While you are in the Loads on Geom panel, press the H key to view panel-specific help. When you are done, click return and the Step Manager will be updated with the new loads.

Define FILM On: Element Sets

Use the Define FILM on: Element sets option to define the FILM load on element sets.

The element set names are used in the *FILM data lines instead of the individual elements. Unlike Abaqus surfaces in Engineering Solutions, you can combine element sets with individual element IDs in the same *FILM card.

Note: There is no graphical display in Engineering Solutions for loads created on sets. Therefore, when you review a load collector in the Step Manager, only loads created on individual entities are highlighted. For loads defined on sets, the underlying nodes or elements are highlighted.

This dialog contains an element sets menu containing a list of the existing element sets. There are two types of elsets in Engineering Solutions: components and entity sets. The Abaqus elsets that are linked to sectional property cards, such as *SOLID SECTION and *SHELL SECTION, become components in Engineering Solutions. Others become entity sets. To differentiate between these two types, there is a divider line "- - - - -" in the elset list that pops up if you click the element sets menu. The elsets listed below the divider line are components.

This dialog also contains a table for data line input, which contains the following columns:

Table 2.
Column	Description
Elset	The name of the element sets. Element sets are added and deleted in this column using → or ←, respectively.
Label	The labels of FILM load. The available labels are: F1, F2, F3, F4, F5, F6, FPOS, and FNEG.
Sink Temp	The reference sink temperature.
Film coeff	The reference film coefficient.
Load Id	The ID of the load collector.

The Define tab for Define FILM on: Element sets contains the following buttons:

Table 3.
Button	Action
Review Set	Reviews the selected node sets by highlighting them in the Engineering Solutions graphics. Right-click Review to clear the review selections.
Create/Edit Set..	Opens the Entity Sets panel in Engineering Solutions. When you finish creating/editing the set, click return. The Step Manager is updated with the new set appearing in the element set list.
Display/Review from panel	Opens the appropriate Engineering Solutions panel. Use the review button to expand the loads and constraints on the sets for visualization purposes.
→	Add the selected node set from the drop-down menu to the data line table on the right.
←	Delete the selected node set from the data line table.
Show Faces	Used mainly to review the face identifiers of elements in the selected set. It creates a temporary skin of the selected elset, opens the Element Selector panel, from which you can select face elements from this skin. When you return from the element selector panel, the selected faces will display color-coded face identifier tags. In performance graphics, these tags are sometimes blocked by the solid mesh. You may need to rotate the model a little to view the tags. Right-click Show faces to clear the face review.
Review	Creates special review FILM loads in Engineering Solutions graphics for the selected set. Right-click Review to clear the special review loads and highlighting.
Update	Updates the Engineering Solutions database with the data lines defined in the table. By default, Engineering Solutions does not create a display for loads defined with sets.

For tips on entering information and navigating in the Define tab, see Step Manager Tab Environment.

Load Step: FILM: Delete Tab

In the Delete tab, delete *FILM and other loads.

There are three deletion options:

Table 4.
Option	Description
All loads in current collector	The Delete button deletes all the loads from the current load collector.
All 'Distributed loads' in current collector	The Delete button deletes all distributed (DLOAD, FILM) loads from the current load collector.
By selection	The Pick Loads button opens the Engineering Solutions load selector panel. Pick the loads you want to delete and click proceed. The corresponding Reset button resets the selected loads. The Delete button deletes the selected loads.

Load Step: FILM: Parameter Tab

In the Parameter tab, define optional parameters for the *FILM card.

The supported parameters include: Amplitude, Film Amplitude, OP, and Region Type.

Click Update to activate the optional parameter selection in the Engineering Solutions database.

Modify the FILM Coefficient

Options for defining film coefficient on FILM created on individual elements or geometry.

By selection: The Pick Loads button opens the Engineering Solutions load selector panel. Pick the FILM loads to which you want to assign film coefficient, and click proceed.; The corresponding Reset button resets the selected loads.; The Update button assigns the value specified in the Film coefficient: text box to all selected FILM loads.
All FILMS in current collector: The Update button assigns the value specified in the Film coefficient: text box to all the FILM loads in the current load collector.