From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Simulation for Finite Element Analysis
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Setting up Simulation properties - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Simulation for Finite Element Analysis
Setting up Simulation properties
- [Instructor] Sourcing the correct properties and defining them in the analysis database is a vital part of the FEA workflow. It is tempting just to grab any convenient material property, but we need to avoid that. This video shows you how to build your own material library and place the correct material properties within it. This really helps to impress anybody who's going to be checking your work. To see the FEA feature tree, you may need to click on the study tab. It's shown here, but it may be hidden, like this, for example, so just click on the study tab to bring up the model feature tree. The geometry icon in the FEA feature tree shown here is labeled con_rod_baseline. Right mouse click on this, and then the first menu item is to apply edit material. Click on this, and a material library appears with a list of material properties. This is the default Solidworks material library. There are a wide range of material properties in the library, but in our case, the correct steel for…
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