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    calculating the volume of section of a part model in solidworks

    Thank you all! Both your suggestions and the Solidworks forum were very helpful, I appreciate the time to answer ;)
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    Working with inches and pounds in Abaqus

    Yes! And I'm not getting any tensile stress in the middle, where the maximum moment and tensile stress are located.
  3. Etbraz

    Working with inches and pounds in Abaqus

    Yes, I am modeling the canoe in inches. The canoe is 17 feet long an I've put the the contact conditions - boundary conditions - at 2.5 feet from the extremes.
  4. Etbraz

    Working with inches and pounds in Abaqus

    Hi all, I'm doing the FEA of a concrete canoe model in Abaqus and I can't figure out what's wrong with my units. I am using inches as my distance unit and pounds as my units of mass. In my FEA model I'm tring to simulate the canoe sitting on two stands. The only load acting on the canoe is its...
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    calculating the volume of section of a part model in solidworks

    Hi all, I'm have the part model of a canoe in solidworks and am trying to calculate the volume of only a section of it. I've created a section view of it, starting from the bottom and going upwards towards the gunwales. My goal is to determine the volume of this section so I can calculate how...

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