Recent content by mechfeeney

Thanks man!

You probably know that I'm well aware of that. They are, on the other hand both manufactured by autodesk. I didn't see an inventor forum so i figured this one was the best fit. Perhaps i'll find the water more inviting at the solidworks forum.

I found the answer to this problem. Slice Graphics.

Using Autodesk Inventor 2012 and I came across what should be a very easy question to answer (for experienced users). When I try to draw on a plane that intersects a solid body, any portion of the sketch that is behind the solid body is hidden from view. The attached pictures shows clearly what...

Ohhh right I forgot about those issues. As for the the missing property definitions, you have to redefine your profiles and reapply your section definitions/material properties. In other words, when you import your orphan mesh part, it has lost the previously defined section/material details...

Sure. I understand your problem clearly now. Make you first story with the 20 components. Run a model with an arbitrary setup...could be static loading condition or natural frequency (whatever you want). By running this arbitrary setup, you will produce an input file and an odb. Then start up a...

If the stories are all the same, why not instance the part multiple times in the assemlby and link them to gether with springs (engineering features--> springs and dashpots).

Doug, You're right. For some dumb reason I was thinking he was using solid elements (as in cubes). Ignore my previous post.

1 element through the thickness? Minimum is 3.

I think you would need to interpolate to fill in the missing data.

Well, with the right amount of patience and skill, you could write a code to parametrically generate a solid element decahedra (generating a nodal coordinate matrix and element matrix), but for complicated shapes it's most efficient to generate an .igs in a CAD package. I know Abaqus doesn't...

How many elements through the thickness in both cases?

What kind of structure? Wireframe, solid or shell?

Oh...I guess that didn't really answer your question. You have to have a node set in order to apply a BC. If it's just a single node, then make a node set for that single node.

Say you want to apply the boundary condition to nodes 8, 17, and 32... %%You must first create a node set: *Nset, nset=MyBCs, instance = Part-1-1 8,17,32 %%MyBCs is the name of the set and Part-1-1 is the name of my part %%in the assembly. Next you apply the boundary condition type to the...