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Loads - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Loads

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- [Instructor] At this point in the analysis, we need to add some loads to the design. So let's go ahead over here to Evaluate, click on Simulation Express. Now, every time we do close or open the document, it does kick us out of that wizard, so we have to launch it every single time. Go ahead and click on that. So you can see on the left, we do have a few other fixtures we've already added from the last movie, and now we're going to be adding external loads. Go ahead and click on Next, notice we're in the Fixtures tab, we've already done that. So click on Next again. Now we're in the Loads tab. So I can either a force or a pressure. Here's my two options down here. So force will be applied on a face or an edge, something like that, a pressure would be applied to an entire surface, and in this case here, pressure doesn't make a lot of sense. Unless you have like a tank or a tube, or something like that you're filling with water or pressure or air, that's where you'd probably use…

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