Ah, ok I see. No I didn't make a General Analysis connection between the surfaces first. Thank you! That makes a lot more sense as far as designing a static analysis than doing everything through assembly connections.
Don't know how that important concept slipped past me, but thanks!
Interesting... Catia doesn't allow me to define contact properties directly between surfaces. If I try to select a surface as a support for the property it give me the no selection symbol (a black circle with a white hyphen).
I had thought this might be due to the fact that my part is an...
Hm...I've tried defining a contact connection property on the parts that are penetrating... but I still see no interaction.
However, the contact connection property is being defined on a coincidence between two cylindrical item's axises. Would that cause the connection property to fail?
So I'm still pretty new to Catia, and am working through figuring it out how it works. So this may be an obvious answer question but:
I have an assembly that is deforming (small deformations) during static loading. During this deformation however, the different components of the assembly are...
For a measurement device I am designing, I would like to measure the moment on a face in Catia. I've tried creating an internal force sensor on the face I would like to measure on. However, this does not seem to give me accurate results.
To test my use of the Force sensor, I created a simple .2...
Yes, I would greatly appreciate the help. Attached are images of the entire piece and all of the connections in it, along with the resultant vector field of the failed analysis, on a scaled down factor.
5 pics explaining connections...
Before running the computation it give me the warning that rotation constraints are not taken into effect due to it being a 3d model. Then after computation is warns me that there is a singularity in the translation that may be due to improper constraints.
The scale factor for displacement...
I'm currently designing a device used to grip medical needles. IE one end of a shaft is pull through a scissoring action and as a result two faces come together to grip the needle that is between them.
I am trying to run an analysis on the assembly to look at stresses as the shaft is pulled...
So I recently switched to Catia because Solidworks couldn't give me the result I needed, and I have a question.
I am trying to create a "Pin" connection. IE a connection that allows one Part to rotate about another part about the axis of a hole. Catia does not have a preset connection for this...
Thanks, I had feared that was the case, and had started using Catia V5 as soon as I had posted that question as a back up.
This has lead to a new question:
I am trying to create a connection that is similiar to a "Pin" connection in Solidworks. IE a connection that allows an item with a hole...
So here is a brief problem I am having that I hope someone can help me with.
For reasons that would be excessive to explain I want to be able to view the moment in on a face in a object I am designing in Solidworks. However, whenever I select the "List resultant force" option and use the "free...
