Free Life Sciences Special Interest Group meeting following Abaqus's annual conference May 26 in Boston. I'll be presenting how I created the models for this image as well. Here is a link for the group and the conference...
I have composite material properties for a 3D woven composite. We have all 3 E's, all 6 nu's they only have 3 G's specifically G12, G23 and G31. Abaqus requires G13 not G31. Is there a closed form solution to convert for this different convention?
Thank you for your help.
Rob
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I am working on a project where joints are actuated by rope and bungee cords. Both of these are modeled with 3D splines because they follow a complex path. Can someone provide some best practices for this type of system?
Ideally neither the the rope or bungee would support bending or...
With Abaqus 2016 the Simulia products have been aligned to the same release cycle and naming convention. This is great news for workflows that use multiple products. The next notable difference is that the installation process has been completely revamped. It’s not difficult and this tutorial...
Please share your coolest animations from 2015 here.
Here are a couple of guidelines:
1. Please share only your personally created content from 2015.
2. Simulia only: Abaqus, Isight, Tosca, Fe-Safe, Simpoe
3. Feel free to post multiple videos.
4. Suggested comments: Name, Company, brief...
Designing a medical device commonly starts with the healthy or diseased anatomy. Geometry without significant simplifications typically comes from various 3D scanning technologies such as CT or MRI. Here we will go through turning scanned point cloud data into usable NURBS CAD geometry with...
Creating a custom toolbar in Catia can help speed up repetitive tasks and reduce errors. This post goes into how to create a toolbar that references multiple workbenches.
Process Streamlining: Catia Custom Toolbar
I hope this is helpful.
Rob
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In this blog post I detail the installation of Abaqus and other DS products on Windows 10.
Abaqus on Windows 10
Has anyone else had any experiences with Windows 10? So far I have found the upgrade to Windows 10 to be fairly seamless. Chrome is a major exception to this with frequent crashes...
Utilizing medical imaging data from either CT or MRI data is a common hurdle in medical device design. This blog goes through the steps from scan data to CAD geometry and then to an FEA analysis. Files are freely provided at the end of the post...
I routinely us matweb.com for non-biological materials such as plastics and metals. Is there a similar database for biological materials?
My typical workflow is to research each tissue type individually usually finding relevant properties published in research articles. Depending on application...
http://www.instructables.com/contest/kinetic/
This contest is for anything that moves and is sponsored by Autodesk. Hopefully someone will submit with a design done in SolidWorks!
Rob Stupplebeen
Is anyone here attending the Abaqus conference? I think meeting people from this community would be fun.
Attached is my mug shot so you can find me.
Shameless plug: I will be presenting "FEA of Prosthetic Lens Insertion during Cataract Surgery" at 4:20 on Tuesday in room 551.
Rob Stupplebeen
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Does anyone know if you can increase the significant digits printed to the DAT file? The help files did not reference any option.
Thank you.
Rob Stupplebeen
SWW top 10 ideas is going on again. Basically users submit and vote on their top enhancement requests.
http://www.solidworks.com/sw/brainstorm.htm?del=0&productid=17&idtoken=887F81E96C22D8D2D28384E9C764B863
Vote for my favorites if you like them.
Create conic sketch entities with a rho value...
I am looking for an equation that will solve for the best fit weighted average radius for a conic surface. This is to correlate with our interferometer measurements. Currently we do this by a brute force method creating sag tables of the conic surface and a spherical surface and use solver to...
I was wondering if anyone has created a maco that will assign a unique part color to each part in an assembly. Ideally I would like it to traverse down in the order of the parts in the assembly with ROYGBIV as the first colors and then going from there with darker or lighter hues. Has anyone...
I am interested in offloading some work to an Abaqus consultant. I was wondering if there is a site that lists consultants and their experience? I am not intending this to be a flood of people saying "Pick me, pick me". Thanks.
Rob Stupplebeen
I am recording a macro that:
1. Sets the background to white
2. Image capture
3. Sets the background back to the original color
I am hard coding in the background color so this is not mean to be elegant at all. When I record the image capture does not make it into the macro. Does anyone know...
I assume that quite a few of the frequent posters are going to SWW09. Is there any interest in trying to get together so we can see all the helpful faces? Does anyone know if SWW has a system to facilitate this? Thanks.
Rob Stupplebeen
