3 Replies Latest reply on Sep 28, 2010 3:16 PM by Ryan Werner

Unable to produce certain plots...

Mike Lowinske Sep 28, 2010 2:20 PM

Hello,

I seem to be unable to get Soldworks to produce certain kinds of plots for the simulation results. These specifically are the rotation and moment plots that should be a subset of the "Displacement" type plot. I have tried setting the default plot options in the Simulation>Options>Default Options box/tab and in there I can tell it to produce default plots with any of the X-Y-Z-Res displacement/ X-Y-Z-Res rotation/ X-Y-Z-Res moment/X-Y-Z-Res reaction force options. However when running the simulation, only the resultant displacement plot shows up. When I try to manually define/create a new plot by right clicking on the results folder in the simulation "tree" it only gives me options to select X-Y-Z-Resdisplacement and X-Y-Z-Resreaction force. Can anyone tell me what might be going on?

Running SW2010 Premium 64bit with Sim Pro on win XP 64

-Mike

Re: Unable to produce certain plots...

Ryan Werner Sep 28, 2010 2:45 PM (in response to Mike Lowinske)
Hi Mike,

The reason you cannot select those Displacement Results is probably because of the Simulation type you are running. The ones you are referring to are only available for Shell, Beam and Mixed Mesh Studies.

Ryan W.

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  Mike Lowinske Sep 28, 2010 3:11 PM (in response to Ryan Werner)
  
  Yeah, I have a solid mesh. I'm wondering why that would be though now? I would think that it wouldn't depend on the type of mesh used...
  
  Is there any other way to get the moments produced at a restraint if the model is a solid mesh? as that is what I am interested in...
  
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    Ryan Werner Sep 28, 2010 3:16 PM (in response to Mike Lowinske)
    
    Yeah, you can List Results and choose a restraint location and it will give you the reaction forces that are present. To get the Moments I think you have to give it a reference point or axis or something but you can get those results too.
    
    Ryan W.
    
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