Chlorate
10-19-2011, 07:00 AM
Hi all,
I've been very frustrated with SolidWorks lately, ever since I updated from the 10/11 to the 11/12 student version, the beam analysis software seems to have gone screwy.
After meshing a lot of the beams seem to go wonky at corners, i.e. they don't join where they should:
http://img829.imageshack.us/img829/4075/wonkymesh.png (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/829/wonkymesh.png/)
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And it seems to have a lot of trouble with curved beams:
http://img810.imageshack.us/img810/3336/curvefail.png (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/810/curvefail.png/)
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In the old version it appeared to work flawlessly. I've tried models I created in both the 2011 version and the 2012 version on two different machines, and the same bugs appear on both.
I also keep getting the error: "Model is unstable, restraints may be inadequate"
Anyone else had this sort of trouble? http://fsae.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_mad.gif
Thanks,
Alex
I've been very frustrated with SolidWorks lately, ever since I updated from the 10/11 to the 11/12 student version, the beam analysis software seems to have gone screwy.
After meshing a lot of the beams seem to go wonky at corners, i.e. they don't join where they should:
http://img829.imageshack.us/img829/4075/wonkymesh.png (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/829/wonkymesh.png/)
Uploaded with ImageShack.us (http://imageshack.us)
And it seems to have a lot of trouble with curved beams:
http://img810.imageshack.us/img810/3336/curvefail.png (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/810/curvefail.png/)
Uploaded with ImageShack.us (http://imageshack.us)
In the old version it appeared to work flawlessly. I've tried models I created in both the 2011 version and the 2012 version on two different machines, and the same bugs appear on both.
I also keep getting the error: "Model is unstable, restraints may be inadequate"
Anyone else had this sort of trouble? http://fsae.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_mad.gif
Thanks,
Alex