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Mass modeling examples, part 2

Mass modeling examples, part 2 - Nastran In-CAD Tutorial

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Mass modeling examples, part 2

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- [Narrator] In this video we're going to look at applying a nonstructural master component. Let's open up the part, and it's a single part this time. But I've split the plate in preparation. So if you see the little preview window, you can see the split quite clearly. Let's open it up. I'm going to be applying a nonstructural mass to this region just here I'm highlighting. Go to the Autodesk Nastran In-CAD environment, and then straight away edit it into a normal modes analysis from the default linear static. And as usual, we want to deselect reactions and stresses. I'm going to leave the name as default in this case. Now I'm going to open up the Model library, and here we've got idealizations. You're going to choose a new idealization, it's going to be a shell type. So what we're going to do here is put a dummy thickness in. It's going to be a thin layer, effectively infinitely thin, but it's going to carry mass. Some of the advanced options, this is the nonstructural mass, which is…

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