Exporting orbits and space environment

Thermal Model Exchanger 2.0 now supports exporting External Heating Environment boundary conditions from Thermal Desktop into additional types of orbital heating simulation objects in Simcenter 3D Space Systems Thermal.

Thermal Model Exchanger (TMX) now converts the exported External Heating Environment boundary conditions to Orbital Heating simulation objects with one of the following types:

  • Illuminate Selected Elements when there is a Radiation Analysis Group defined in the External Heating Environment.
  • Illuminate All Elements when there is no Radiation Analysis Group defined in the External Heating Environment.

In previous releases, External Heating Environment boundary conditions were only exported as Orbital Heating simulation objects of the Illuminate All Elements type.