topic Re: Variable Cross Section Wizard - W-Shape in Simulation Mechanical Forums (Read-Only)

Variable Cross Section Wizard - W-Shape

andrewdroth — Thu, 24 Aug 2017 16:34:38 GMT

When I use the variable cross section wizard to define a tapered W-Shape it always calculates the 'B' end as having zero depth.

I only noticed this after turning on 3D-Visualization in the results. Is this feature unreliable? Should I be calculating the section properties manually?

Re: Variable Cross Section Wizard - W-Shape

andrewdroth — Thu, 24 Aug 2017 16:38:55 GMT

Re: Variable Cross Section Wizard - W-Shape

andrewdroth — Thu, 24 Aug 2017 16:39:46 GMT

And I think this screen-cast best illustrates the issue.

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andrewdroth — Fri, 25 Aug 2017 15:00:28 GMT

Support just confirmed my concerns.

Variable Cross Section Wizard does not work with wide flange inputs.

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andrewdroth — Tue, 19 Dec 2017 14:51:03 GMT

Does anyone know if this has been fixed?

When could we expect an update?

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John_Holtz — Tue, 19 Dec 2017 15:35:05 GMT

Hi Andrew,

This has been fixed and released. Use the "Autodesk Desktop App" to install the "Simulation Mechanical 2018.1 Update".

These are the changes listed in the complete readme file. (I have added a few clarifications to the explanations.)

Analysis Failed with part number above 999. (I think this started with version 2017. The analysis can now handle part numbers greater than 999.)
Frequency shown incorrectly in DDAM results. (The annotation label in the Results environment was not reading the natural frequency properly. Instead of showing the frequency as 534 Hz, it was displayed as 5.34 Hz.)
Editor doesn’t launch from SimMECH (The Nastran Editor was not starting properly when using the Nastran solver for the analysis.)
Shows wrong variable cross-section wizard for wide flange beam. (As Andrew pointed out, the problem was that the wide flange beam tapered to 0. This has been fixed.)

Re: Variable Cross Section Wizard - W-Shape

andrewdroth — Tue, 19 Dec 2017 15:45:56 GMT

Any chance we will see an update for 2017?

We don't have plans on upgrading to 2018 due to the loss of sim studio.