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Uniting components in an assembly.

Uniting components in an assembly.

Uniting components in an assembly.

(OP)
Hi:

I was wondering if anybody knew how to join components in an assembly, the reason of this is because, inventor cannot do a FEA in assemblies or various components so I was planning on joining all the parts in an assembly to make it a single .ipt and then apply the forces and see the FEA.


Thanks

RE: Uniting components in an assembly.

Save the assembly as a .SAT or .STEP file. There is an option when saving to combine into a single solid or individual components.
 

David

RE: Uniting components in an assembly.

(OP)
David:

I did what you said but now the problem is that inventor import's the assembly as a composite a single composite, and in the stress analysis menu it does not let me do anything, all the buttons appear disabled, do you know a workaround for this?

thanks

Fernando

RE: Uniting components in an assembly.

Forget all that; Open a new Part File, exit the sketch and use the Derive Component command, this will derive the assembly into a single part which you will be able to do FEA on.

Now that being said; IV2010 does do FEA on Assemblies and either way you spin what you are doing it is not an exact representation of FEA on an assembly but may give you a good idea of your design intent.

RE: Uniting components in an assembly.

Autodesk Labs has/had a free add on for Professional users that will FEA assemblies.


labs.autodesk.com

RE: Uniting components in an assembly.

Not anymore, they pulled it because the technology is in 2010 and more well refined.  I still have the installer, but if this is a big part of your work you should jump to 2010.

RE: Uniting components in an assembly.

I have 2010, but I'm waiting for a service pack to be made. If I blink my eyes, it crashes.

RE: Uniting components in an assembly.

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I have 2010, but I'm waiting for a service pack to be made. If I blink my eyes, it crashes.

I'll bet money that it is a hardware problem or some software other than Inventor that is causing the problems.  What does your VAR say about your install?

RE: Uniting components in an assembly.

2010 is VERY stable. If you are constantly crashing you have other hardware/driver problems. or simply a bad install

I also used to wait for service packs but stopped when 2008 came out and have not had more than 2-3 crashes a year.

I also run a good cleanup/refresh of my computer before each install. Run virus,run spyware,defrag, delete temp files, update all drivers including bios flash,etc...

Autodesk has indicated a large majority of crash reports are submitted because of graphics card issues...  

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