From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Simulation for Finite Element Analysis
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Displaced shape - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Simulation for Finite Element Analysis
Displaced shape
- [Instructor] Displaced shape plots are useful to help visualize the stiffness and load pounds in a component. Animating displaced shapes can further help the visualization. So we're going to right mouse click on results, and choose define displacement plot. The default quantity shown here in display is the displacement magnitude. Now we can change that if we want to, to component displacements in X, Y, and Z, that can be useful at times. For the moment we're going to stick with just resultant displacement. Now what we're invoking here is a contour plot of displacement, in the same way we had stress plots, this will be a contour plot distributed throughout the structure, showing the value of the displacement. If we actually want to have a deform shape plot, this is the control we have in here, so we can deselect it, or we can select it as we've done in here. Now the automatic scale is probably going to be quite exaggerated, so let's just click on that and see what we get. Again we've…
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