Simulation on a Multibody part

[PhoenixDynamometer]

Greetings all,
I have a multibody part that I was looking to run simulation on for bending analysis but SW comes back with a message stating "can only be done on one body and the rest will be ignored." I have SW Professional with the full sim package and I thought this would work. Is there a way to run the simulation on a multibody part or do I need to make it an assembly possibly? The multibody part was created as a weldment.

Thanks for options.
BB

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[kellnerp]

This would better be handled on the Cosmos Forum in future.

I was under the impression you could bring a weldment into Sim as beam elements. Then bodies don't matter.



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[ShaggyPE]

If you run it as a solid... make sure you set your global contact... probably to bonded. It should work... unless you have gaps.

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[kellnerp]

With weldments you very well may have gaps. You certainly don't want to mesh a weldment as a solid anyway unless you are going on vacation and can let it run while gone.

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