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Solidworks static parametric study help

Question asked by Ahmed Sarwar on Jan 16, 2020
Latest reply on Jan 30, 2020 by Kieran Young

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hi. I am trying to optimize the minimum number of screws (7 total min 3 so total combinations are 7c3+7c4+7c5+7c6+7c7) needed for a fracture plate in a broken human femur. I have everything modeled and running.

My question is this.

Is there a way for me to tell solidworks to basically try all possible combinations of the number of screws and spit out a reading for a parameter that I chose.

I have tried design study however it does not have an option to suppress components, and I dont want to design and run all 99 of them seprately.

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Bill McEachern Jan 16, 2020 4:51 PM
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Just use configurations a clone the study to each and make the adjustments to make sure they all stayed buckled together then use run all studies or just run them one at a time. You dont have that many if I understood it right.
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- Ahmed Sarwar @ Bill McEachern on Jan 16, 2020 6:09 PM
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  Hey Bill,
  
  Thank you for your reply. If I understand correctly, your recommendation is to create a separate configuration for each scenario and then run them as a batch?
  
  If so, I will be doing that if nothing else works. I just wanted to know if there was a way I can tell the software to vary the number of holes and screws automatically, without me setting them up individually. Below is a picture of the assembly and the points are the screws.
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  - Kieran Young @ Ahmed Sarwar on Jan 30, 2020 4:41 AM
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    Hi Ahmed,
    Not sure if you are still working on this but to add to bills suggestion of using configurations, I would highly recommend the use of a design table to create those configurations as it will be a huge time saver.
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    - Ahmed Sarwar @ Kieran Young on Jan 30, 2020 10:52 AM
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      Hi Kieran,
      
      Thanks you for your input. I have indeed used a design table to create the configurations. Just another thing, would you know if there is a way to copy a static study to all the configurations at once?
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      - Kieran Young @ Ahmed Sarwar on Jan 30, 2020 11:47 AM
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        Hi Ahmed,
        
        You are already ahead of the game
        I don't believe their is a quick way of doing this at the moment however, I was having a think about your intentions here. One suggestion could be, instead of using configurations you could control the screw sizes (and holes if need be) using a design study). This would mean you wouldn't need to input all the variations as you can simply specify the range of sizes for each screw and let the application work out the scenarios for you. Plus this would let you see all the results in one table which is always easier to work with in my experience.
        
        Just a thought
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