Thanks GLED, but I'm not sure this can help me... the ultimate functionality that I am trying to create is as follows:
I will create a macro in Visual Basic that will automate some dimensions in a part or assembly. The macro will pull values from a database using SQL calls, and the dimensions...
Here's an example of what I want to do: I create a custom property from File/Properties>Custom tab. I give it a numerical value of 3. In my SolidWorks model, I want a dimension to be driven by that value, so that whenever I change the Custom Property value and then regenerate, the model...
I'm trying to create a surface rip in ProE Wildfire 3.0, at the corner of the part illustrated in this image:
http://naiad.homeftp.net/proe/eng_wall.jpg
I've started from a solid L-shape, and then switched to sheetmetal mode using the shell option. I'm aware of the SMT conversion tool, but I...
I have a problem with about 200,000 elements (SOLID186 I believe) in ANSYS Workbench v10, and has about 330,000 nodes. There are only 2 main bodies in contact with each other, however, there are nearly 100 frictional contacts occurring in the model (it's a spline shaft inside of a female...
I'm in Western Canada, so anywhere in North America is fine. But I'm willing to fly to Europe too. Often the cost of the flight tickets are much lower than the cost of the course...
I was wondering if anyone can recommend some ANSYS training courses, or seminars. I've looked at the ones that ANSYS Inc. provides and I'm just wondering if anyone knows of other good courses or seminars? In particular I want to learn more about how to better handle convergence issues with...
I am constantly having problems making assemblies with contact elements converge. I am aware of the various types of contacts and the differences between them (pure penalty, Lagrange, etc) and that symmetric formulation is more reliable when targets and contacts are not clear. I often must...
I have a large assembly with lots of contacts to simulate. Workbench is ideal for me to set up the contacts and loadings, so I start in Workbench. However, I do not care for the h-elements and prefer p-elements in this case, as well as other more advanced features in the classic environment...
"CADWorx Plant 2006" is an AutoCAD add-on, it's sort of popular from where I am (Calgary, Canada). It's 3D, and sort of parametric in the way it's used, and has the ability to import 3D objects from other CAD systems as well as probably export (since it's standard AutoCAD 3D stuff). I think a...
Did you ever solve this problem? I'm having the same problems even after doing the hardware acceleration and 2 lines trick, ABAQUS/CAE and ABAQUS/Viewer have errors durring verification.
Thanks.
I'm designing a custom heat exchanger that is to be embedded in the walls of a large high temperature "oven" of sorts. The purpose is for heat extraction into a heat-transfer fluid (such as glycol), the heat energy is to be used as a power source. I need some recommendations/material specs for...
Right, I phoned them and that's what they said to me. Likely they wouldn't even bother to support it. However, I have run Ansys on an Athlon system - AMD Athlon XP 2100+ on an ABIT KX7-333 motherboard and 1 gig DDR-333 and MSI GeForce 3 Ti500 64 meg card with no problems, it never crashed...
I'm going to custom build a FEA workstation.
I called up an ANSYS reseller, and they gave me the general mumbo jumbo "you need lots of RAM, buy the fastest CPU, fastest hard drives, and fastest everything".... bla bla bla. I have a budget here, in fact, the budget is about $1400 USD...
What does "low speed, high torque" mean exactly? ... or similarly, "high speed, low torque"... are there numbers that are standard for these descriptions (is "low torque" from zero to 1000 lb-ft for example?), or are these just "feel" words? I don't like...
I am investigating what type of bearings I should use on a new rotary pump/compressor that I am helping to design. We require bearings for the shafts of the rotors. The rotor shafts range in size from 2 cm up to 30 cm in diameter. Each shaft will require 2 or 3 sets of bearings. The bearings...
