Inquiry- creating complex solid for stress analysis
Inquiry- creating complex solid for stress analysis
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Hi
Im fairly new to Solidworks. Im having trouble finding a method to create a single solid 3d body that might contain various tabs (for example) for stress analysis. Target object might be something like a beach chair, where I want to determine stress on legs. Normally, I would create the component parts (legs, body of seat, etc), and combine as an assembly, but this yields a group of parts that I cannot export to Ansys or other FEA tools for stress evaluation. I am able to use 'Combine' in the Part mode to create solids from parts, but control over placement of objects (i.e. rotation, mates, etc) seems very poor. Is there a way to 'export' a solid body from an assembly? Or, do I have to do some intermediary process (i.e. a subtractive cut between the assembly and a block of material, and then reverse that (sort of like creating a part from an injection mould...))? There must be a simpler way- but I cant find it. Thanks in advance-
Best regards,
Roland
Im fairly new to Solidworks. Im having trouble finding a method to create a single solid 3d body that might contain various tabs (for example) for stress analysis. Target object might be something like a beach chair, where I want to determine stress on legs. Normally, I would create the component parts (legs, body of seat, etc), and combine as an assembly, but this yields a group of parts that I cannot export to Ansys or other FEA tools for stress evaluation. I am able to use 'Combine' in the Part mode to create solids from parts, but control over placement of objects (i.e. rotation, mates, etc) seems very poor. Is there a way to 'export' a solid body from an assembly? Or, do I have to do some intermediary process (i.e. a subtractive cut between the assembly and a block of material, and then reverse that (sort of like creating a part from an injection mould...))? There must be a simpler way- but I cant find it. Thanks in advance-
Best regards,
Roland






RE: Inquiry- creating complex solid for stress analysis
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RE: Inquiry- creating complex solid for stress analysis
Chris
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RE: Inquiry- creating complex solid for stress analysis
I tried that initially, and it created a part with 2 surface(s) entries (was testing with just 2 parts in an assembly). I suppose I would need to then convert (these) into a solid using some of the techniques described in the forum (thicken->solid)?
Best,
Roland
RE: Inquiry- creating complex solid for stress analysis
Thanks for the help all- great forum here. I hope I can contribute.
Best,
Roland
RE: Inquiry- creating complex solid for stress analysis
You just did! I'm constantly learning from this forum every day.
Thanks,
Chris
Systems Analyst, I.S.
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RE: Inquiry- creating complex solid for stress analysis
Don't forget to search this forum and the FAQ for your answer before posting a question. Their is a lot of knowledge base here....have fun
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RE: Inquiry- creating complex solid for stress analysis
See also Combining parts in an assembly thread559-138566
BTW, in SW06 you can use the Mate function in a multi-body part, which greatly simplifies positioning the bodies.
Helpful SW websites FAQ559-520
How to get answers to your SW questions FAQ559-1091