Thank you drawoh for sharing your experience.
TheTick, do you use SolidWorks professionally? If yes, do you use this modeling approach in your professional projects? If I understand well, you use the same modeling approach than me, I want to make sure it is an acceptable practice in industry...
Thank you very much btrueblood and SparWeb for your feedback.
SparWeb, what do you think about the multibody VS "in-context parts" approach? Can you give pros and cons? Actually, at the moment i am not using multibodies but i wonder if it is or not a better practice to use them to do what i...
Hi all,
My objective is to create parametric assemblies. If some of you use Inventor professionally, i would be very glad to know which technique do you use to design with the Top-Down approach.
My first idea was to create a 'master' assembly and create each part in-context. In that case, all...
Thank you very much all for your answers!
TheTick, i use the same methodology than yours. Actually I wonder what is the pros and cons of using that technique (one " in-context master" assembly and one "final product" assembly) VS the multibody modeling technique (build the assembly first as...
Hi all,
After many searches on the web, i can't find a good technique for Top-Down modeling of assembly. I want to create all the parts in context of the assembly (so an update to one part is propagated to other parts) but i would like after that to be able placing mates between the parts to...
Hello Rick,
I am a beginner with FEA. I am self-learning at the moment.
One of the author of "Building Better Products with Finite Element Analysis", Vince Adams , also wrote a NAFEMS publication: A Designer’s Guide to Simulation with Finite Element Analysis.
It is a bit less expensive but...
Hello,
Thank you rickfischer51 and IceBreakerSours for your answers. I had already noticed "Building better products with FEA" and NAFEMS books. I am actually trying to trade-off the best book because my budget is very limited at the moment.
Rick do you own "Building better products with FEA"...
Hello,
Do you know some good books/publications to self-learn practical FEA? I already have some ressources but it is often more oriented toward theory than practice of FEA. I don't want to get too far in the mathematical aspects at the moment.
I want to learn the practical basics, following...
Thanks for your help.
Yes you right. I don't exclude the possibility to invest later in a more descent desktop worksation but at the moment I really need a laptop for mobility reasons, and I hope to have the best hardware balance for simulation "on the road".
True. It was given in some...
Thank you very much rb1957 for your help and sorry for the delay of my reply.
Practical advices are valuable, I have tons of stuff to read to improve my FEA skills and it's not always easy to find practical examples without getting too deep into the mathematics behind.
As I am working on...
Thank you all for your answers!
Yes I agree, I am aware of that fact but at the moment, no choice, I am stuck with the laptop option.
Always interesting to have feedback. Can I have more details about your hardware configuration?
I must say I am exactly more worrying about performance with...
Hi all,
My old laptop died recently so i have to buy a new one for a max budget of ~1500€ (it can be secondhand or renew).
I want to do FEA, some CFD, multibody simulations, possibly CAM and above all I want to have the best speed for optimization with optistruct and tosca.
I read some...
Hi all,
I would like to use the topology optimization module in NX 8 with loads imported from motion analysis in NX Motion.
At first sight, topology optimization in NX can not be used with inertia relief. So i am trying to see how i should place constraints on the mesh to obtain results...
