Integrated Mode
Integrated mode incorporates Mechanica simulation functionality into Pro/ENGINEER. In integrated mode, you create, analyze, and optimize your simulation model in the same user environment that you use to create your Pro/ENGINEER geometry. Here are some unique features of integrated mode:

You can choose whether to define your model for use in native mode or FEM mode. Native mode provides P-element solutions and FEM mode lets you solve your model using any of several third-party H-element solvers.

Mechanica creates the mesh automatically as part of model analysis. For solid models, Mechanica uses solid elements such as tetrahedrons, wedges, or bricks while, for shell models, it applies both triangle and quadrilateral shell elements to achieve the best mesh. You can also have models that combine solid and shell elements to create a mixed mesh.

As an option, you can manually add several specialized element types, or idealizations and connections, to your model. These include beams, various types of welds, springs, gaps, contacts, rigid connections, and masses.

Although native mode does not normally display elements except as a background for study or analysis results, you can test and refine your mesh before you run an analysis.

You indicate which aspects of your model can change during a sensitivity or optimization study by defining design parameters for dimensions and properties. For dimension changes, you create design parameters using Pro/ENGINEER relations.

You can work in more than one model at a time. When you wish to work on another model, you simply open it, and a new work area window opens displaying the newly-chosen model. You do not need to save until you exit integrated Mechanica. For more information, see Considerations for Multiple Model Sessions.

To get a better idea of how integrated mode differs from independent mode, see Operating Mode Comparison.

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