ANSYS ED suitability for a Truss Project

[laminarflow]

I have a welded steel tube truss structure that I would like to analyze. It is similar to a bicycle with some slightly curved parts and four sided bays. I have looked at several packages available in the under $500.00 range and ANSYS looks the best. Is the ED version suitable for a project like this? With a simple truss structure, will the 10K node limit be a problem? How easy is ANSYS ED to use?

I also would like the capability of importing a solid from my cad program too, which ANSYS ED seems to be able to do.

Will ANSYS ED be suitable for my application?

Thanks !

 

[cbrn]

Hi,
as far as you're using trusses / beams, 10000 NODES are a very huge number (check it isn't 10000 DOFs instead...), far and far sufficient to model a high voltage sub-station line gantry portal.

Regards