Stress Analysis and multi-body parts

[karthur1]

I started to do a stress analysis on my assembly.  When I started the simulation I got the message below

The component it is refering to is already in a sub-assembly.  Is there a way around this and just treat the multi-body part as one solid part?

This is in 2011.

[Anonymous]

you maybe able to edit the mulitbody part features and just switch them from New Body to Join, maybe not though.

[JDMather]

..or perhaps Combine and then suppress or delete that feature when done with the analysis.

[Anonymous]

I have this same error occurring for the same reason. Can anyone give a detailed description on how to fix this?

THANKS!

[karthur1]

You will have to go into each part that is a multi-body and (just for the sake of doing a stress ananysis) combine the multi-body.  Then when you are done, move the eof marker up to make the parts multibody again.

[Anonymous]

Thank you for the quick reply, how would i go about combining multi-body parts?

[JDMather]

By using the Combine command.
If multiple ipt files then Derived Component might be the easiest method.
Attach your file(s) here.

[Anonymous]

Problem Solved!

Thanks for your help