COSMOSXPRESS question - loading 3

[MMike1]

I was just doing a simple analysis. Something occurred to me: Ok so you constrain your part here here here and here. Great. But now what if you load it in two spots? Ok loaded here and here. Groovy. When you then sepcify the magnitude of the load, say 10000 lbs, is it applying 10000 lbs total, or 10000 lbs in each spot?

 

[Heckler]

In the SWx help file under cosmosExpress

The specified force value is applied to each face. For example, if you select 3 faces and specify a 50 lb force, COSMOSXpress applies a total force of 150 lbs (50 lbs on each face).


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Heckler
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Do you trust your intuition or go with the flow?

 

[Ataloss]

When you're specifying the load in CosmosXpress, it asks you to "specify the force value to be applied to each face in the set", so I assume if you pick 2 faces and specify a load of 10000 lbs, that it is actually applying a total of 20000 lbs.

Bob

 

[cninneman]

For your example, if you entered 10,000 both times that you designated the load area, it applied 10,000 in each location. So, you would have a total of 20,000 lbs.

Chris