Please can anyone help me with this as it is really frustrating me ! I am tring to run a simulation on a bracket load in Inventor 2012, I run through all the steps fine but when am I asked to apply force I try to click the CENTRE of the hole in the bracket but Inventor refuses to let me, I can only select the edges ! Can anyone help please (see attached pic)
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To Force Inputs you can select faces, edges, and vertices.
Maybe you need to apply Bearing Load in hole and not a Force. Maybe.
Thanks for your advise, I just tried BE (bearing load) but again Inventor would not let me select the hole centre ... ? Very frustrating
What you want to simulate?
Bolted connection?
Yes as the attached image shows a bracket bolted to an I-beam, I am trying to simulate the force on the bracket
The center of the hole is air.
The force will be applied to the face shown in red in your image.
(don't worry about the glyph - the force is evenly distributed on that face.
If you will have a mating part that only contacts part of the face you might use the Split command to split the face.
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If i remember...when we select a circular face to apply force....Inventor apply the force in the center of the hole.
Thank you, this clarifies what I needed to know, it can be a bit misleading where the force glyph is as it gives the impression (to me at least) that this would be the exact point of the force.
@Anonymous wrote:Thank you, this clarifies what I needed to know, it can be a bit misleading where the force glyph is as it gives the impression (to me at least) that this would be the exact point of the force.
Yes, I agree. All the other programs I use show a pattern of arrows to represent the force placement.
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Excuse me, can you tell me how to show distribution of force in Inventor simulation.
Hi Freemantong,
A Force load is evenly distributed to a face (in only one direction)
A Pressure load is evenly applied perpendicular to every point on a face
A Bearing load is applied with a parabolic load distribution (in only one direction) to a cylindrical face [Edit: without traction, only "compression"]
Hope this helps...does this answer your question?
Thanks, -Hugh
Thanks for your reply.
Since i am now construct on a level luffing crane, i would like to know if i use the dynamic simulation, when I tried to apply a load force, only one unknown force could be calculated. I would like to know do Inventor provide a kind of force equilibrium or free body diagram by showing all the force associated.
Hope some expert in Inventor or Autodesk product could provide me some comment,