Thursday, April 26, 2012

Showing SolidWorks Simulation Results in 3dVia Composer

I was with a group of users the other day and the question came up, “Can I show stress results from SolidWorks in Composer as a view.” My first thought and others in the room was no. Then the hamster in my brain woke up and started spinning the wheels.


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1. What is important to user to see?
•  Deformation?
• Color Plot?
• Maxium Stress location?
2. What outputs from Simulation can I leverage?
3. What inputs from Composer will give me most of what the user wanted.


Answer #1
User: “ I want them all”


Answer # 2
Eprt (eDrawing 3d results file)
Bmp (Bitmap 2d image)
Jpg (JPEG 2d image)
vrml (3d results file)
xgl (3d results file)
zgl (3d results file )04



Answer #3
Out of those files about vrml was the winner.


Big Problem #1
Composers does not bring in the color of the faces from the vrml. Composer can only bring in textures from 3dxml


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Redneck Work Around #1
SolidWorks can open VRML files with color and it can save 3dxml files. We have a winner. So perform your analysis and save the results plot as a VRML file. Then open the file in SolidWorks and save the files as a 3dXML


Finshed


 Have fun,


Bob McGaughey, CSWE


Computer Aided Technology, Inc.



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