Hello All
I am having issues with the associativity between Simulation 2012 and Inventor 2012 with SURFACE MODELS only.
When you bring a change over from inventor with a solid model all loads and material properties are retained.
However when models containing surface elements are updated all loads and material properties are lost. Is there a work around for this?
I have tried using assemblies with parts containing only surfaces, however Simulation refuses to accept this. It will only accept parts containing surfaces if they are not in assemblies.
I have tried using solid models and midplane meshing the results however the mesh quality at the joins between plates is not up to scratch.
This problem is costing me a lot of time. I am dealing with complicated thin wall tanks and containers with large numbers of load cases.
Thanks
Matt Kurtze
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I'm sorry to dig up a 2 year old post, but I think this needs more attention.
I had no idea until reading this that solid bodies offer the functionallity that allows you to change the model geometry in IV and re-importing it without re-applying part attributes constraints and loads.
The fact that this is still not offered for surface models 2 years later is really disapointing.
Why hasn't this been addressed?
After looking at this some more it seems like some of the functionality is there.
If I press the "Simulate in Autodesk Simulation" in Inventor, it will push the new geametry and keep the part definitions and material, but not the names.
I can use the read attributes function to reanme all the parts, but I can only get it to do 8 parts at a time.
The surface loads and constraints are removed.
Is there a reason Simulation does not use the surface body names when it imports parts?