• DECEMBER 2019
Ansys Minerva
2020 R2 Key Features
Florent Petiot
Lead Product Manager
July, 2020
Target Personas
CAE Manager • Responsible for initiating and overall project management of CAE work
• May also handle simulation tasks
• Carries out bulk of the work assigned
CAE Analyst
• Responsible for pre-processing, solving, results post-processing, report generation
CAD Engineer • Designer working in a separate department
• Needs to communicate with Analysts on geometry, simulation etc.
• Engineering Execs, Program Manager
Program/Project
Manager • Provides oversight & project management : Needs to know key design decisions, needs access to
simulation results/reports/review meetings
• Manufacturing, Test, Designers, …
Other requestors/
consumers • They may request a simulation
• They may be consumers of simulation information or data
Methods Devs • Configures workflows, implements best practices, automates
IT admins • Deploys, monitors, upgrades
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Ansys Minerva: Overview, main functions
• Dashboards/reporting
• Data section
• Metadata/report/lightweight viz
• Configuration Management
• Local app Launcher
• Job Submission
• Collaboration
• Tasks/Work Requests
• Dependency Graph
• Ansys Granta MI integration
• Ansys Workbench integration
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Dashboards
Role specific views
• Pre-canned Dashboards
‐ Role-based (Admin/CAD Designer/CAE
Analyst)
‐ Built by Admins
• Personal « My » Dashboards
‐ Configurable by user
• Different types of widgets (charts,
status, tasks, statistics, tables etc.)
• Configurable
• Set as default landing page
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Data Management
Intuitive usage for data sharing,
versioning and archiving
• Main view where Data is stored
• Similar display as File Explorer
• Sorting capabilities
• Drag&Drop, Cut/Copy/Paste capabilities
• Link, Shortcut
• Search (simple/advanced)
• Customizable action bar
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Metadata Extraction
Automated extraction of relevant meta
data from simulation files
• A simulation details report, simulation
metadata, and a lightweight
visualization file are extracted from
many file types (Ansys and non Ansys,
CAD, CAE)
• 3D Viewer for lightweight visualization
for standard solver types
• Custom Metadata Configuration
• Custom File Type detection logic
• Custom dependencies detection logic
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Comprehensive Visualization
Embedded CAD and CAE viewers included
with Ansys Minerva
• All standard CAD and CAE formats are
supported
• Explode, annotation, measure, animate,
results light weight visualization
capabilities
• Multiple viewers can be configured in
Ansys Minerva
• Road map for more advanced light
weight post processing and report
automation to follow
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Configuration Management Capabilities
Version control, branching and simulation
change notices tracking revision type
• Ansys Minerva enables model
management features like:
• Claim/unclaim to lock / unlock files claimed status
• Revisions (w/ branching, purging,
major/minor version)
• Lifecycle for all objects
• Change Notice
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System Reports
As Admin, monitor the system
• Ansys Minerva provides easy tools to:
‐ Display storage used per user
‐ Display biggest files
‐ Display files created in a time range
‐ Display full storage history
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App Launcher
Allow users to work as they do today with
desktop tools being launched from Ansys
Minerva within context information and data
• Ability to launch applications installed
locally
• Data flow (inputs/outputs) tracked by
Ansys Minerva
• Highly configurable to support any
desktop application
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Tasks
Task list Task Contents
Intuitively model the dependency between
inputs and outputs
• Elementary activity container
• Used for traceability purpose
Task Input review
‐ Tracks inputs and outputs generated by a
process, and activity, a job, an application
‐ Tracks application used
• Can be part of a Work Request
Task Output review
• Can be created automatically by job
submission / application launcher
• Tracks dates for project management
(due date, start date, completion date,
etc.)
• Can be single user or multi users
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Dependency Graph
Visualize the Digital Thread
• Visualize the dependencies between • Highlight the digital thread as needed
files, tasks, materials • Grouping and filtering capabilities
• Display the items properties, or open • Allows configuration
them directly from the graph
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Job Submission Capabilities
Batch job submission to HPC
• Job Templates out of the box:
‐ MAPDL
‐ AEDT
‐ Fluent
‐ Workbench
‐ Python
‐ optiSLang
• Additional Job Template based on
configuration
• Monitoring capabilities
• Integration with DCG (Distributed
Compute Gateway) a component to
allow submission on HPC on prem
resources (cloud in the future)
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Informal Collaboration
Support collaboration without
administrative effort
• Easy way to collaborate around
simulation activities
• Always available, does not require Forums, Discussion Boards
Process in place
• Discussion thread attached to all items
• Also available for Tasks / Work
Requests Embedded notifications
• Email notification possible
• Possibility to attach screenshots
Chat, image attachments
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Work Requests
Ease the collaboration between
design and simulation teams
• Flexible way to handle Collaborative
Processes
• Gather requirements, task activities,
deliverables
• Can use Templates or on-the-fly Tasks
addition
• Provides Gantt-like views
• Controlled by a workflow
• Automatic e-mail notifications
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Project Management
Regroup Files, Tasks, Work Requests
within the same Project
• Flexible/extensible container
• Nestable (can reference other Projects)
• Link to existing Work Requests, Tasks
• Reference users and Files
• Files accessible from Data section
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Granta MI Integration
Import and consume Material
Dataset coming from a
Granta MI db
• Connect to a Granta MI
repository
• Import Material Dataset
• Use the material data in your
simulation activities
• Synchronize Material cards
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Wbpz management
Tight integration with WB files in
Ansys Minerva
• Comprehensive view of all the
information from the web browser
• Wbpz managed as a folder structure
• Files embedded in a wbpz are
managed individually for metadata
extraction
• Workbench Connector
• Incremental save
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Workbench Client Connector to Ansys Minerva
Allows WB users to interact with
Ansys Minerva directly from the
application
• Manage connections to multiple
Ansys Minerva servers
• Search
• Open from
• Work locally
• Upload (save to )
• Incremental save
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File Transfer Client
Allows users to upload large data sets of
files and folders to Ansys Minerva
• Local application to ease file transfer if
needed
• Installed along with Application
Launcher (see after)
• Could be launched at end of local
application activity to cherry-pick
output files to be sent back to Ansys
Minerva
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