topic how to remove components or bodies from a model for Simulation? in Fusion Design, Validate & Document Forum

how to remove components or bodies from a model for Simulation?

maker9876 — Sat, 14 Jul 2018 09:14:46 GMT

Way back I think it may have been possible to simply "hide" a body or component in the Simulation Environment for it to be ignored when running a simulation. Or perhaps I'm getting confused with CAM?

In any case, right now, whilst there's a complex "feature removal" tool for removing things like chamfers, can't figure out how to have the Simulator ignore whole bodies or components that are a part of the model but which don't want to spend computation time on?

Any suggestions? Or do I have to duplicate the file and then delete all the offending objects?

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g-andresen — Sat, 14 Jul 2018 11:04:45 GMT

Hi,

I would do it this way.

günther

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maker9876 — Sat, 14 Jul 2018 11:14:18 GMT

Hi,

Thanks for the suggestion. That's what I did initially but at some point during the Solve procedure you get a warning saying that there are hidden items and they will be used for the simulation. The warning also says that one should use the Simplify workspace to take out things that are not to be used in the simulation. However in the Simplify workspace I don't see an approach that's particularly suitable for bodies/components?

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maker9876 — Sun, 15 Jul 2018 08:35:33 GMT

This is the situation (notice some components have their visibility turned off). So the problem is that the Simplify tool doesn't seem to be very good for removing whole components. Perhaps someone can explain?

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maker9876 — Sun, 15 Jul 2018 14:57:17 GMT

Yay! I got there by chance.

Duplicated the file and started deleting model components, then noticed that, unintentionally, was in the Simplify Workspace.

Turns out, you can delete components in the Simplify Workspace and they're not deleted from the Model itself.

Perfect!!!