Pro mechanica: Simulated surface region
Pro mechanica: Simulated surface region
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Hi, a Pro/mechanica newbie here. So bear with me:).
I have a long cylinder. I want to apply a pressure load in the internal surface. But I want to apply the load to only half of the internal surface.
I know I should be using the "simulation surface region" or a "simulation volume region". Which one is more appropriate here.
Is there any good reference which I can look at for this?
Another small question. I managed to make a simulated volume. How one deletes and redefines a volume. Right clicking on volume in the tree does not show any delete option. Is there any other menu I should be looking at.
I am using Pro-e WF 3.0.
Thanks for any kind of help.
I have a long cylinder. I want to apply a pressure load in the internal surface. But I want to apply the load to only half of the internal surface.
I know I should be using the "simulation surface region" or a "simulation volume region". Which one is more appropriate here.
Is there any good reference which I can look at for this?
Another small question. I managed to make a simulated volume. How one deletes and redefines a volume. Right clicking on volume in the tree does not show any delete option. Is there any other menu I should be looking at.
I am using Pro-e WF 3.0.
Thanks for any kind of help.





RE: Pro mechanica: Simulated surface region
RE: Pro mechanica: Simulated surface region
As far as the proper use of the volume and/or surface region that is entirely up to you. I typically use surface regions to define mesh control areas and for constraints and load applications as they typically apply to one side of a part. I do find though that I sometimes wish to constrain the top and bottom surfaces of a bolt washer diameter or something similar and rather than create two surfaces (one on top and one on bottom) I create a volume and extrude it from top to bottom and it by nature creates the two surfaces. It also creates the sides of the cylinder that was extruded within the thickness of the model which can be selected as well. Bottom line use whichever will get you to your goal the quickest and easiest.
Hope that helps,
-J-
RE: Pro mechanica: Simulated surface region
I managed to apply the pressure load by using the surface option.
Yes, you are right about the bug there. One can ignore as you say.... but I have noticed that with these unwanted simulation volumes in the model, the computation time increases somewhat.