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I suppose you could model the chain as a series of beams with appropriate gap elements. A kinematics solver would make easy work of it. TOP CSWP, BSSE www.engtran.com www.niswug.org www.linkedin.com/in/engineeringtransport Phenom IIx6 1100T = 8GB = FX1400 = XP64SP2 = SW2009SP3 "Node news is...

When you discuss loads and boundary conditions on this forum a picture is worth a thousand words. I would not assume body loads are applied unless I turned them on. Are you saying there are other loads in addition to gravity loads? TOP CSWP, BSSE www.engtran.com www.niswug.org...

When preparing a SolidWorks model for FEA it is always a good idea to use the TOOLS/CHECK functionality and find and remove gaps, small faces and edges and generally clean up the model by removing small features that have nothing to do with the FEA giving good answers.

Are you using body loads to simulate gravity? TOP CSWP, BSSE www.engtran.com www.niswug.org www.linkedin.com/in/engineeringtransport Phenom IIx6 1100T = 8GB = FX1400 = XP64SP2 = SW2009SP3 "Node news is good news."

Sorry, it's been a while since I checked in here. I would look in the .out file to see which contact elements where giving trouble and then try to find them in the model. TOP CSWP, BSSE www.engtran.com www.niswug.org www.linkedin.com/in/engineeringtransport Phenom IIx6 1100T = 8GB = FX1400...

Sounds like you need to start a new thread for this. TOP CSWP, BSSE www.engtran.com www.niswug.org www.linkedin.com/in/engineeringtransport Phenom IIx6 1100T = 8GB = FX1400 = XP64SP2 = SW2009SP3 "Node news is good news."

I am not sure about recursive calls not working. My STAR benchmark runs on 2009 and it is all about recursion. It will run on 2004 on up. I have written elsewhere about the real cost of upgrading and ROI. I did my presentation on 4/17. One of my findings was that things like graphics cards...

Professor Krishnan Suresh did a presentation on geometry optimization (PareTO) at the April 17th Tech Summit. The method he presented allows a designer to find the optimum geometry of a part very quickly. What he does amounts to doing numerous FEA runs starting with a block of material with...

You might ask your VAR about documentation for the Simulation API. I'd be curious. TOP CSWP, BSSE www.engtran.com www.niswug.org www.linkedin.com/in/engineeringtransport Phenom IIx6 1100T = 8GB = FX1400 = XP64SP2 = SW2009SP3 "Node news is good news."

You want to combine both macros into one module and make sure the variable names are consistent. TOP CSWP, BSSE www.engtran.com www.niswug.org www.linkedin.com/in/engineeringtransport Phenom IIx6 1100T = 8GB = FX1400 = XP64SP2 = SW2009SP3 "Node news is good news."

In Cosmos/M you may use the command language to query particular nodes and then do computations on their results. Unfortunately, the API for simulation is rather limited and I don't know of a way to do it there. TOP CSWP, BSSE www.engtran.com www.niswug.org...

Probably not, but you might look at fcsuper's macro collection and modify an existing macro. TOP CSWP, BSSE www.engtran.com www.niswug.org www.linkedin.com/in/engineeringtransport Phenom IIx6 1100T = 8GB = FX1400 = XP64SP2 = SW2009SP3 "Node news is good news."

You might turn on the option that shows the two sides of a plane using different colors. See if the planes flip between configurations. That might provide a clue. TOP CSWP, BSSE www.engtran.com www.niswug.org www.linkedin.com/in/engineeringtransport Phenom IIx6 1100T = 8GB = FX1400 = XP64SP2 =...

Make one a subroutine in the other or make both subroutines ina third macro. Of course you then have to make sure that all global variables have the same name in both subs. TOP CSWP, BSSE www.engtran.com www.niswug.org www.linkedin.com/in/engineeringtransport Phenom IIx6 1100T = 8GB = FX1400 =...

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Rosettes are better for actually finding the direction of principal strains. Adds one more channel. TOP CSWP, BSSE www.engtran.com www.niswug.org www.linkedin.com/in/engineeringtransport Phenom IIx6 1100T = 8GB = FX1400 = XP64SP2 = SW2009SP3 "Node news is good news."

Sounds like a text book homework problem. You could draw a diagram. That would help. If you are talking about separation, is this elasto-plastic? If you are talking about alternating loads, is this fatigue? TOP CSWP, BSSE www.engtran.com www.niswug.org...

And another thought, FILES/FIND REFERNCES will output a list of parts to the clipboard. Might be easier than using dir. TOP CSWP, BSSE www.engtran.com www.niswug.org www.linkedin.com/in/engineeringtransport Phenom IIx6 1100T = 8GB = FX1400 = XP64SP2 = SW2009SP3 "Node news is good news."

The simplest way is to dump: dir *.sldprt > tempfile.lis and then read that file into your macro using each line as a filename. Of course you will have to get dir to output just filenames and extensions and perhaps clean up the file in an editor a bit. TOP CSWP, BSSE www.engtran.com...

I am working on a performance presentation and I ran across this interesting conundrum. I ran these benchmarks in 2009 and am doing so again in 2012 on a much faster machine. The rebuild times don't improve as much as the Punch Holder benchmark would suggest they should. 600s vs 48s Does...