From the course: Autodesk Inventor Professional: Stress Analysis Tools
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Exploring loading options - Inventor Tutorial
From the course: Autodesk Inventor Professional: Stress Analysis Tools
Exploring loading options
- Our designs are subjected to a large variety of different real-world working conditions. To accommodate this for simulation and to make our simulations more accurate, we have to be able to apply different types of loads. For example, instead of just simply applying a force to this face, we want to simulate the fact that there is a bar resting in the bottom of that groove that is undergoing its own stresses. So for example, we can say that we want to apply a Bearing Load to this face. But the Bearing Load isn't necessarily unidirectional. We can come in and say that vertically, which is the negative y, there might be a minus 450 Newtons of force pushing down on that face. Simultaneously, we can say that there's a negative 80 Newtons of force being applied to that face. When we make these changes we see that the arrow that represents our force is no longer normal to the surface. This gives us a better representation. Let's say OK and we'll apply that. Then, let's apply a Moment, or a…
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