Stress analysis with different sheet metal thickness

[shvorst]

I was using the stress analysis in Autodesk Inventor 2014. The stress analysis is used on 3 different baseplates (sheet metal parts). When

I change the thickness at "Sheet Metal Defaults" the stress analysis simulation doesn't change it's displacement while the displacement

should differ when changing the thickness. Also Inventor asked for avvvxra5d.fres when opening any baseplate. I linked this file to the

.fres file of the stress analysis in the folder: /AIP/FEA, also don't know if that was something good or bad to do cause it didn't work

for my problem. Can someone please tell me why the displacement doesn't change and what the file is Inventor is asking for. Also at 2 of

the 3 baseplate it still askes for the file and 1 baseplate doesn'te, while I linked all the 3 to there own .fres file.

[blair]

Did the model update it's plate thickness when you changed the sheet-metal style thickness. You may need to hit the Update button. Are you opening the file through Windows Explorer or have you set your Project file correctly and opening Inventor, selecting your Project file as the active project and then opening your file through the Inventor file-open dialogue button. If your Project file is set correctly and you are opening the file through the Inventor dialogue button then the missing link issue will go away. This is the proper and correct way to use Inventor.

[shvorst]

yes, the plate thickness did change. I will first check if the update button will work. And I will put all my files with the project file on my computer. Cause I worked from my dropbox folder. Maybe that could be a problem. Thanks for replying.

[shvorst]

Found the problem. Cause the file was opened from dropbox, the project file in dropbox didn't update and the stress analysis took the settings of the project file (I think).

[mrattray]

You always need to be working from within the workspace defined in your project file, or issues like this arise.