Hi,
There are some excellent and legal resources available for learning practical FEA methods including the correct use of constraints available from the downloads page at the following link:-
http://www.roshaz.com/downloads.html
Regards,
Rooster
Thanks again to all of you who took the time to reply with helpful comments and suggestions, these are greatly appreciated.
Out of interest the original drawing was metric, but who ever drafted the original was somewhat misguided in their application of the GD&T.
The discussion has given me the...
Thanks to all of you with helpful comments, the dimensions have been changed to question marks "???" on purpose as I didn't want the original dimensions released into the public domain.
However it's interesting to find out about the CATIA mapping process, which makes sense about how these...
Sorry to mess you all about, but I've finally managed to upload the file.
Just for future reference it was the file name that was stopping it, I had called it GD&T and the upload didn't like the & bit.
Anyway, can anyone help me interpret the GD&T correctly...
I am trying to establish the correct meaning of the GD&T symbols used in a dutch drawing.
I'm not sure how old the drawing is, but the GD&T symbols don't seem to follow the current ISO 1101 standard.
Can anyone help me interpret the GD&T correctly?
Hi gitpicker85,
I use Inventor 2008 Pro and ANSYS 11 SP1, in these you can load a model in Inventor then use the intergrated ANSYS 11 toolbar to start ANSYS and load the Inventor model automatically.
I'm not sure however, if previouse releases of the software can do this.
Regards,
Rooster67
I also get access to Knovel through my Institution, but you can apply for a free evaluation period, and I am aware of many engineering students who have accessed Knovel this way in order to download a number of reference titles such as:-
Finite Element Method 5th Edition vol 1,2 & 3
Machinery's...