Transcript FEA for the Rest of Us…

Dumb Solids: Make them your friend in SolidWorks
Lars Christensen
[email protected]
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Presentation Roadmap…
Solids vs. Surfaces
File Format
Importing into SolidWorks
Dumb Solid “Power Tools”
FeatureWorks
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Solids vs. Surfaces…
Imported
Solids
Solid Tools
Surface Tools
Imported
Surfaces
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Solids vs. Surfaces…
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File Format…
Most of these will be imported
as Dumb Solids, but some are
better than others.
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File Format…
What’s the best way to import
files into SolidWorks?
(Top 3 formats)
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File Format…
3.IGES
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File Format…
2.STEP
3.IGES
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File Format…
1.Parasolid
2.STEP
3.IGES
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File Format…
1.Parasolid
X_T better then X_B
2.STEP
ISO 10303
AP 242 scheduled for 2012
3.IGES
Stopped development in 1996
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File Formats
STEP
IGES
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Pop Quiz!
Name That Movie!
“I am serious... and don't call me Shirley.”
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File Format…
6 Parts to Any SolidWorks File
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SolidWorks
File
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3
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Translators and converting…
Geometry
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5
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SolidWorks
File
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3
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Translators and converting…
Geometry
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5
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SolidWorks
File
Topology
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Translators and converting…
Geometry
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5
SolidWorks
File
Topology
Display Data
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Translators and converting…
Geometry
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5
SolidWorks
File
Feature History
Topology
Display Data
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Translators and converting…
Geometry
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Meta Data
SolidWorks
File
Feature History
Topology
Display Data
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Translators and converting…
Geometry
Mates
Meta Data
SolidWorks
File
Feature History
Topology
Display Data
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File Format…
Geometry
Parasolid
Kernel
SolidWorks
File
Topology
Display Data
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Pop Quiz!
What do you call a group of owls?
A Parliament
What do you call a group of foxes?
A Skulk
What do you call a group of ferrets?
A busyness
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Importing into SolidWorks…
• Parasolid Features (Geometry, Topology, Display
data) can become corrupted during translation.
• SolidWorks tries to repair this with Import
Diagnostics.
Faulty face
Gaps between faces
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Demo Preview
Keep hitting that thing!
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Power Tools…
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You can move, rotate, and copy solid
and surface bodies, or place them using mates.
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Demo Preview
It’s just like
using mates!
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Power Tools…
1.
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You can move, rotate, and copy solid
and surface bodies, or place them using mates.
You can offset, translate, and rotate faces and features
directly on solid or surface models.
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Demo Preview
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Power Tools…
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You can move, rotate, and copy solid
and surface bodies, or place them using mates.
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You can offset, translate, and rotate faces and features
directly on solid or surface models.
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Deletes, Patching or Filling a face from a surface body
or deletes one or more faces from a solid body to create surfaces.
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Demo Preview
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Power Tools…
1.
You can move, rotate, and copy solid
and surface bodies, or place them using mates.
2.
You can offset, translate, and rotate faces and features
directly on solid or surface models.
3.
Deletes, Patching or Filling a face from a surface body
or deletes one or more faces from a solid body to create surfaces.
4.
Pattern repeats the selected features, faces and bodies.
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Demo Preview
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Pop Quiz!
What team did the Red Sox sweep
in the 2004 World Series to end an
86-year “Curse”?
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Power Tools…
1.
You can move, rotate, and copy solid
and surface bodies, or place them using mates.
2.
You can offset, translate, and rotate faces and features
directly on solid or surface models.
3.
Deletes, Patching or Filling a face from a surface body
or deletes one or more faces from a solid body to create surfaces.
4.
Pattern repeats the selected features, faces and bodies.
5.
Use the split to create multi body parts
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Demo Preview
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Power Tools…
1.
You can move, rotate, and copy solid
and surface bodies, or place them using mates.
2.
You can offset, translate, and rotate faces and features
directly on solid or surface models.
3.
Deletes, Patching or Filling a face from a surface body
or deletes one or more faces from a solid body to create surfaces.
4.
Pattern repeats the selected features, faces and bodies.
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Use the split to create multi body parts
Make Solid to Sheet Metal
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Demo Preview
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FeatureWorks…
Automatic Feature Recognition:
The Software attempts to recognize as many features as possible.
Interactive Feature Recognition:
You select the feature type and entities.
Tip:
Recognize fillets and chamfers first.
Interactive recognition of any extrusions or revolves is simpler after fillets/chamfers are recognized.
Perform Automatic Feature Recognition after you have simplified the model with Interactive Feature Recognition.
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Demo Preview
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