Selecting Default Cycle may provide a different cure cycle, depending on the conditions at the time it’s clicked. If the material (or materials, for a Thermal Profile Simulation) in use don’t have any MRCC cycles defined, the default RAVEN cure cycle will be used. If MRCC cycles are defined, the default MRCC for the current material (or first material, in a Thermal Profile Simulation) will be used.
To force the use of a specific MRCC cure cycle, or the RAVEN default cure cycle, click on the down-arrow next to the Default Cycle button to get a list of MRCC cycles currently available.
Be careful when changing materials after selecting a default cure cycle, as the cycle will not change to reflect the default cure cycle for the new material.
Selecting Share Cycle With... will display a list of all cure cycles currently in use in RAVEN (as well as which simulation is using the cure cycle). Select a cure cycle and click OK. The shared cure cycle can now be edited while modifying any simulations which share the cure cycle, and all simulations using it will update as needed.
Selecting Copy Cycle From... will display a list of all cure cycles currently in use in RAVEN (as well as which simulation is using the cure cycle). Select a cure cycle and click OK. The copied cure cycle is in no way connected to the source cure cycle, and edits made will only affect the current simulation.
Selecting Open Cycle will display a file selection dialog, where you can select either a RAVEN cycle file (.rcf), Legacy COMPRO cycle file (.cyc) or Comma-Seperated Value file (.csv).
Selecting Create Custom Cycle will display the Cure Cycle Editor with an empty cure cycle. See Using the Cycle Editor for more information on editing cure cycles.
Creating a cure cycle from data already in RAVEN can be used to quickly predict the property development of a material given imported experiemental thermal history.
The Cycle From Data... button is only available if valid data to create a cure cycle is present in RAVEN. Clicking this button brings up a dialog where you can select the source simulation, results entry, as well as which data columns to use for the time and temperature of the cure cycle.
If the results selected for the source data are imported results, it will be possible to specify the time and temperature units of the source data.
By default, cure cycles created from data will update if any changes are made to the source data used to create them. You can disable this by unchecking Update cycle when source data changes.
Selecting Edit Cycle will display the cycle editing dialog. See Using the Cycle Editor for more information.