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is there a way to export the deformed geometry from mechanica? ansys seems to have a workaround for this feature (it seems to be in STL format)

thanks for the leads. I'll check out ABAQUS and MARC. I only care about the final static condition of the static load, and the load forces will be alot higher than the friction forces. So I figure I'll simplify the problem and ignore friction. Cheers!

wow... 160 nodes... does it have to be that many? i'm assuming you've got 160 points in space that you have to go through, but could you approximate some? if you want or need the clean single entity of a spline, another thing that might work is to build a curve using simplier geometry: like...

is it a really complicated spline with a lot of nodes? Whenever I use splines, I don't use the interpolation-point method. Rather I use the control points, and there's only 2 control points (and 2 end points) in each spline. I suspect there might be a small radius somewhere in your spline...

Large assembly drawings have always been really slow with Pro/E. Especially when you're making exploded drawings. One trick would be to suppress as much as you can. Then create the drawing. And when you're ready to print it, resume all your features. This is a great trick when you've got...

is there a way to tell autoGEM to not put nodes on certain edges? I have a very organic model that is composed of lots of surfaces, some of them have very, very acute vertex angles. If I could effectively remove some of these edge, the mesh would work, and the structural analysis would run...

what's in the copy geometry? if it's surfaces, curves, and other datum features, try putting those elements in a layer and turning the layer off. so instead of putting the copy-geometry feature in a layer, but the elements of the copy geometry in a layer. i know that works for surfaces...

Maybe dealing with 0.5 degree angles is a weakness of p-code in Pro/Mechanica. But everytime there's a surface that has the crazy aspect ratio that 0.5 included angle induces, it causes the mesh to choke (or it meshes, but the analysis freezes). So I go into the model, and eliminate the...

Can anyone recommend or give the pros/cons of FEA packages for structural FEA of very organic assemblies? I've been using Pro/Mechanica to simulate the deflection for a given point load of a three part assembly. The problem is: the geometry is created in Alias and are very organic (like...

for the life of me, i can't get two quilts to merge in IDD. i can sucessfully detach them from the imported IGES in IDD. and then outside of IDD, i can merge them. but i would like to do that all inside the import geometry. either 1) i can't figure out the secret sequence of keyboard pushes...

i kind of did the same thing: i've got a mapkey that turns the preselect from "smart" to "annotation"... but i still think it's slower than the good 'ol proe2001 days.. or maybe i'm becoming that grumpy old man we're all destined to become (or grumpy old woman for some of ya'll)

Have ya'll noticed how slow wireframe mode is? It used to be tons faster than shaded mode (back in the good ol' 2001i^2 days). But now it's painfully slow. Shaded mode is nice sometimes, but many times I'd rather work in wireframe. Is there a secret setting I don't know about?

I was just asked by a friend to do a critical comparison of Wildfire vs. Soldworks. Granted, I've got more experience in WF, and so do all of my coworkers, but (as objectively as we could) we concluded that WF was a much better CAD program for what we do in product design. The biggest feature...

i'm making a curve through points more specifically: insert/model datum/curve thru points(default)/done spline(default)/whole array (default) select the two curve end pionts I'm trying to C2 connect/done tangency/make both end points tangent to curves curvature/then i can select the curvature...

thanks for you help. i tried your advice, and was able to add points. but i couldn't move them. all it allowed me to do was delete the ones i added or redistribute them. are you able to move added point and refine the C2 curve? thanks an

What's the best way to make a C2 curve connect two other curves? Curve through points work. But it's a pain to tweak this curve (at least it in my my version of WF2) - since you can't drag the control points of a C2 you have to go back to just tangency, drag the single control point, and then...

is there a way to make the drawing dimensions show up as feet & inches, such as 5' 6" instead of 5.5 feet or 66 inches? trying to use my workstation at work to work on a home addition.....

When you do a component assembly and use "Automatic" for constraint type and pick a plane in the assembly and plane in the component, every now and then "Align Angle" or "Mate Angle" pop up. It basically orients the two planes with an adjustable angle. It's darn handy, especially considering...

i've got admin rights, but those feature don't even show up (they're not even greyed out)

A co-worker and I are trying to work on different parts in the same assembly. Only problem is whoever opens the assembly first locks-down all the parts, and the send can't modify any of the parts in that assembly. I read the "Help" thing about collaboration, and it talks about changing some...