Navigating the User Interface

Jobs are submitted for analysis via the Simulation Compute Manager Analyze interface. If you plan to analyze on the Cloud, you can also buy additional cloud credits from this interface.

Basic Functionality of the Analyze interface

• Login to your Autodesk Account
• Choose where to run the job
• Choose what monetization method to use for the job
• Add additional computers from the local network
• Navigate to network computer Job Viewers in the browser
• Buy Tokens

Compute Manager Analyze Interface

Figure 1 shows the layout of the Compute Manager Analyze interface.

Figure 1: Simulation Compute Manager Analyze interface, showing

1. Simulation Compute Manager dialog title
2. Analysis title (Product depenedent. See the Product's documentation for details.)
3. Cloud account selection menu, if you have access to multiple accounts
4. Title of job being launched (Product dependent. See the Product's documentation for details.)
5. Error messages
6. Cost in Tokens
7. Token balance for selected account
8. Buy Tokens link
9. Product meta data (See the Product's documentation for details.)
10. Cloud
11. Job Viewer link to view status of Cloud jobs
12. Use Tokens for Cloud job
13. Computer name. Localhost or Network Computer
14. SCM Provisioner limit and running jobs for computer (14)
15. Job Viewer link to view status of jobs on computer (14)
16. Use the product license to submit the job to the Queue on computer (14)
17. Use Tokens to submit the job to the Queue on compute (14) (Product dependent. See the Product's documentation for details.)
18. List of Network Computers
19. Add or remove Network Computers
20. Option to make the current setup default, the next time the dialog is opened. Cloud cannot be selected as the default.
21. Cancel the session. Changes are not be saved, and jobs are not launched.
22. Launch the job to the selected Queue or to the Cloud.
23. Copyright and 3rd party license information