Thanks rb1957 and jhardy1. That's great feedback. Now I think I understand how this works. I've been told the reason other analysts I work with use this method is because it's a 3D composite preform. It's really just one big tangled weave, but we're using a ply-based approach to model it. I'm...
So it's not really a bad practice? I can see duplicating them by mistake is bad, but doing it on purpose is acceptable? I'm just trying to understand if it's something I should get used to seeing/doing.
Hi all,
I talked with an analyst recently about modeling up a composite preform joint, and after all the case studies he's done he told me that the nearest to actual results he got was to use coincident shell elements with different properties. After doing some searches, I wasn't able to find...
The person whose drawings I inherited wasn't too proficient at SolidWorks, so he used AutoCAD since he knew it better. I know my way around SolidWorks, so I could redo the AutoCAD parts if I had to, but I'm just looking for a way to save myself some work by reusing the parts already inserted...
I am in the process of making drawings in SolidWorks that are similar to other drawings others have made in SolidWorks, just with newer models. However, some of the details were hard to show in SolidWorks, so details were created in AutoCAD and pasted into the SolidWorks drawing. Since the newer...
