Hi Experts,
I got this specific question: I used nonlinear static SW simulation to simulate a part compressing another part with prescribed displacement. I am hopping to get the force, required force, for compression. Right now, I can list the reaction force specific to a time step and to a face. Can I get a force vs. time curve for a component? This is a very typical situation like a forging process - you want to deform the part in this matter and need to estimate the power needed to do so. This may be a simple questio, but couldn't find it myself
Thanks in advance,
Jay
Hi Jay: I know it reports the values for all nodes on a selected entity, but not sure about a component. If you plot the reaction force at some time step through the displacement plot dialog, and then "probe" on an entity such as a face, hit the "graph with time" button and you get a graph with the values of every single node as a function of time. You could save that data and import the .csv to Excel and sum-up the values for all nodes across the face at each time step, then graph that in Excel. It's somewhat of a long way around but I have done that in earlier versions successfully.
Tony