Can anyone suggest a good source for learning Cosmos?

[dfowler]

I am currently evaluating Cosmos for Solidworks. I am having trouble with surface loading. For instance I want to load only the right half of an object's top surface, not the entire top surface. If anyone can suggest a book, guide, or tutorial of some sort it would be greatly appreciated. Thankyou.

David Fowler

 

[CADShark]

I know that Cosmos does WebCasts. They have been after me like wihte on rice to get them to conduct a WebCast with them just because I said I was interested in what it offered. Have you contacted your software dealer?

 

[NickE]

Use a Split line from the INSERT/CURVES/SPLITLINE....

This was giving me trouble for a while too...



Nick
I love materials science!

 

[macPT]

See the Cosmos documentation, available after install. You have several examples that you can follow in the Tutorial Manual.

To control restraint placement/area, the way is like NickE said. You must do it with Solidworks features (not Cosmos features) by previously creating splitlines giving you the needed geometry.

Regards

 

[dfowler]

Guys, you are right! My model was far too simplistic. I had no definitions for different portions of the top surface (the top is all on the same plane). This is an AutoCAD dwg imported as a simple 3d solid to SolidWorks and then analyzed straight away with Cosmos. I was looking to easily countrol load placement with Cosmos. Coming from my AutoCAD background I had no concept of splitlines or what they could do for me. Intoducing these to my model will help me better define my loading.
I was going to build another solid the shape of the loading that I wanted and try to press the two together which I see now would have been silly Thanks!

David Fowler

 

[NickE]

Yes the trick i found was to get as detailed geometry as you can of the loading areas, esp when doing assemblys. I've got this great working conical spring stack took 30mins once I modified the geometry to mimic the loading, Its not really the exact condition, nor the proper final geometry anymore but it will analyze and give some results. I have to build the same assembly in teh real world and test now.

nick