Kellnerp - Thank you for your post, that was an interesting idea but it doesn't lend me the data I'm looking for, stresses and deflections. It does show me what happens but I need numbers to go along with the analysis. Again thanks for your help, watching the animation play was fun. :-)
-Cynthia
Thank you Greg for your help unfortunatley the assembly is far more complicated than that and analyzing it by hand would be a nightmare and as things go mgmt wants answers now. I need to model the tension cable in Solid Works so I can use Solid Works Simulation to tell me what kind of stresses...
I am trying to analyze a tripod whose legs are connected by tension cables. I already know the pretension and stiffness values. I'm wondering what mechanism in Simulation to use to model them. I've tried using the spring connection and spring fixtures but both so far are looking for parallel...
