From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Shell and Beam Modeling in FEA
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Truss model: Weldments results - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Shell and Beam Modeling in FEA
Truss model: Weldments results
- [Instructor] In this video, we're going to complete the truss weldment and apply loads and band conditions and then run the analysis and check the results. I'll right mouse click on the joint group and edit and we can see three joints are being created. All the beams are selected. The definition for finding joints. Our objects are touching each other. If they weren't quite touching, we could set a tolerance within which the ends of the members would be grabbed and created as a joint. Everything is fine here, so we calculate and I'll just update the joints. We can click OK. Joints are being recalculated. But the order may have changed. Just a minor warning message. I'll want to ply our constraints so we right mouse click on Fixtures, choose Fixed Geometry, and then using the joints to highlight we pick this bottom joint, left hand side bottom joint, right hand side. We've chosen a Fixed Geometry and we just check OK. So now we need to just constrain this top joint and stop it moving…
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