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New Skill Builder for Stress Analysis Contacts
June 23, 2009, 01:08 AM Garin Gardiner
In the latest Skill Builder, you will create contacts to define the relationship between the parts. Contacts transfer load between parts while preventing parts from penetrating each other. Contacts can simulate interaction between bodies that separate or come into contact during loading. Without contacts, parts do not interact with each other in the simulation.
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July 7, 2009 09:21 AM Benoit Jolin
The inventor 2010 FEA environment is very unstable and crashes or gives me errors daily (12X this monday) I hope that will be corrected as I am no longer enjoying the experience of this software. Furthermore, why is it that the 2009 fea package pointed out the meshing errors and the 2010 does not? Ben Jolin b j o l i n at d f i dot c a
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September 12, 2009 11:36 AM Jeff Moss
Benoit, Sorry to hear you are experiencing issues. I was too, until I purchased a new workstation (ok, it is really just an ASUS gaming tower, but it runs the software great so far). I was experiencing issues similar to yours while attempting to use FEA in Inventor 2010 on a 5 year old Sony laptop. The new ASUS tower handles everything I've attempted great, up to 38 part assembly analysis so far. Seems to point out meshing errors fine, while the laptop would not even mesh the multi-part assembly unless I pulled it through the "derived part from assembly" knothole. The ASUS tower is sold through Best Buy currently. Here's a link to look it over (Better luck to you): http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=9366642&st=ASUS&type=product&id=1218092150864 Jeff Moss
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September 16, 2009 05:05 AM Jeff Moss
Garin, This is actually the best explanation of analysis contacts I've found. What's the chance Autodesk would include definitions of analysis contacts as part of help?
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