New Structural Features in Discovery 2025 R1

Hi, I'm Edwin from Ozen Engineering Inc. Today, I will show you some of the new features in Discovery 2025R1 related to structural physics. For example, the first one is the improvements in beam and shell elements.

Now, we can create beams from scratch, meaning we can define the profile and dimensions from these profiles, starting from scratch, without extracting the profile from a solid body. We can also organize our beams in local libraries that will be stored in the project.

Let's see how it works in the interface. Here, we have these lines created in the 3D space. They are not beams; they are only curves. We can create beams from scratch by going to the Prepare tab and choosing the Assign button. Here, we can choose a new beam profile and define its dimensions.

Let's use an L profile and define its dimensions as 300. Then, we can assign this profile to this line. Now, we have a new beam created with this profile. We can change dimensions, material properties, and even see profile properties depending on the dimensions.

Let's change some of these dimensions to have a bigger beam. Now, we can assign this profile to this one, this one, and this one, too. We have our beams. For example, for this one, we can use a new beam profile and filter by project only to choose from the different profiles we have already created.

The next feature is related to connections. When extending one body to connect to another, we can create an independent body that will be named as a surface. This way, we can have an independent body that we can focus on if we are trying to evaluate some kind of welding.

The other feature is related to beams. When we have a three-dimensional beam extracted from a solid body, we can split the beam elements or the beam bodies at the intersection in the adjacent zones. We can use the extend options to create a new body when we extend the surface.

We can extract beams from solids that represent different beams and then split them in the intersection. The biggest body won't be split. This is the way the tool works. The next features are related to structural simulation and assembly design.

The shared topology search has been deactivated by default, meaning we are not going to see the concurrent faces of the body and the profile automatically. We need to use the preview share topology to investigate which surfaces will be in contact after doing this operation.

We can create remote points using geometry selection. When we want to create a remote point, we can use the new button to click over a surface or a body. The centroid of that body will be taken as the remote point location.

The last one is that now we can inspect reactions for remote displacement in the explore mode. This is very important because we want to be sure our results have a good level of confidence. We can include this option and extract the reactions to inspect our model in a better way.

Now, we will go to the Discovery interface and see how they work. Starting with the shared topology feature, we can go to the Prepare tab and then select Share. We can preview the shared topology by clicking on the button.

We can create a structural support and change it to a combined support with zero values on all of them. We can use remote points and create a remote force. We can define components in the vertical direction and use a remote point if we want.

We can use the new feature to select the remote point location. We can click the button and then click on the face to change the coordinate, indicating the remote force will be applied at this point. We can move and modify the coordinates if we want.

Now, we have our remote force and can solve our model to see the magnitude of the displacement. We can animate to be sure it's working properly. We can add new components and select the variable for the reaction resultant.

We can select the surface where the remote displacement was located and choose the x direction. Now, we have the value for this one. We can do the same for the other one. In this case, one of them is 5 newtons, and the other is -15 newtons.

Doing so, we can have a better experience when performing any structural simulation in Discovery.