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Testing with an alternative material

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Testing with an alternative material

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- [Instructor] Executing a simulation can be the beginning of the process rather than the end. Once the simulation study's been set up, once you've gotten your result, you can reuse that information to do exploration of different materials, to perhaps try different sizes using the simplify workspace because the simplify workspace will allow you to create temporary features as well as eliminate features. For now, what I'd like to do is find out whether a customer request is valid. A customer has requested that we create our O-Clamp in cooper. Of course, their focus is on the visual, but we need to be sure that the material will perform safely. In this simulation workspace with our existing study, I can right-click and say clone study. This will create a new study. We can rename it. We change any of the load information, any of the information in the study but our focus will be the material. By going under the study materials, we can create a material override. So instead of the…

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