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Victor, feel free to add any of my videos and also future videos.
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Uploaded to YouTube: 1st: 2nd:
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I realized that my model didn't have the similar height as the reference model so I went back to edit the created geometry and redo FEA. Video link (download to view): https://www.dropbox.com/s/qo6nwxrvxf4a9l6/frame revisit.mp4?dl=0
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Thanks, if you view it on the web browser than it has a 15min limit on dropbox webpage and the quality is not great. There should be a download tab that you can download the video (HD quality). The run time is about 26min (I purposely made a few tri…
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I went ahead and took dimensions of your model and recreated it. The holes are not correct but good enough for demonstration purposes. Like Victor mentioned, you need to chamber or bevel the glass edges so the bonded surface don't share nodes. Yo…
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Can you also provide the .step files? Thanks
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Eric, I don't know much on laminate material, but for solid elements, quadratic elements (with midside nodes) may give you a better results for bending because linear solid element (without midside nodes) you are using may be too "stiff" for bending…
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Thanks
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Mario, I think the assembly needs to be defeatured or removed the small holes and long edges radius which causing the model to be very large when meshing which are not contributing much in the overall results. We can just adjust the meshing paramet…
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Mario, nevermind. It can be meshed. You can mesh it into different part using a meshing software that can mesh it and export the mesh file. Then import each mesh into Mecway. Mecway version 3 has the "bonded contact" that is very helpful in conne…
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Mario, what was your plan for this? investigating the bottom plate and the two hinges? If yes, you can just export those three parts into step files and use bonded contact in Mecway to bond it or you can union them together first and export as one…
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Victor, for future versions, can we apply load and contraints directly to CAD shell model by clicking on the edges? Thanks
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Sergio, on most of my works, it's not new design. It's more like investigation of a certain connection to withstand existing loads and what if we have more loading to it. At that point, the connection stresses may be well over yield. Then we repo…
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Sergio, thanks. I understand that. What clients asked is how much did it overstressed instead of how much is the plastic strain. I usually tell them the stress and the strain together.
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Victor, thanks. I got it to run using CalculiX and results were shown Calculix screen. For v4 if Mecway can read the results of CalculiX, can we be able to define material non-linearity? I bring waiting for the feature because most of the time when…
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Victor, is it possible to incorporate Calculix solver into Mecway so we can view the analysis results from Calculix solver in Mecway instead of viewing the analysis results in Calculix graphix? That way, we can also have other capability like mate…
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Victor, that's correct. A new button to quickly rotate into the Z-up orientation will do for the isometric. As for the straight-on views, Mecway may still default to Y-up if we click on the arrowhead of the triad. One manual way is if we can also h…
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Victor, see attached files for reference. One way to correct the orientation issue is to mesh the .step file, then rotate the meshed model it. But if we want to add loads and boundary conditions directly on the geometry (.step) model, then the loa…
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Victor, FreeCAD has its Z axis pointing vertically upward. Once we export the model to be imported to Mecway, that Z axis from FreeCAD that used to be pointing vertically upward is now pointing horizontal, and the Y axis from FreeCAD that used to b…
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Thanks Victor. Will rigid links attaching from selected faces to a common node (to apply loading to that node and then be distributed to the selected faces) be coming up in the next version. I know we mentioned about it's being in progress. Anot…
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Input file and update screenshot.
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I was testing the bonded contacts using various parts and bonded them together (see attachment). If we can import and mesh multiple .step files at once instead of clicking one by one is also useful.
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Victor, For the bonded contact, if a compression only support face is adjacent to the bonded face, an error message came up.
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For all of the analysis I've done with simple and also complex geometry using shell or solid elements, I haven't seen any black contours unless I set a user-defined maximum and/or minimum.
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For shell elements where we have upper surface, bottom surface, and midplane, we have to set the max. limit (or min. limit) for all three at the same value to have them plot correctly.
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When we set our limits (maximum and minimum) on the contour plot, we may have black contours which mean they are outside of our defined limits. For the comparison above, I set my maximum limit at 21,600 psi so we are comparing against the same cont…
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Victor, would Mecway incorporate more advanced modeling and hex meshing capabilities? Thanks
