Setting a load and constraint

- For a model to be analyzed it must know how it can move,…and it must also know what forces or loads…are being applied to it to be able…to measure how it will respond.…In this lesson we'll take a look…at a fundamental workflow for this.…First, let's take a look at the Constraints panel…on the Stress Analysis tab.…Here we'll see we have a few basic constraints.…We'll use the most fundamental one, which is Fixed,…and we'll simply tell one of the faces…on the model that it cannot move in any way.…For our purposes that will take care of that.…

Now let's apply a simple load to the model.…There's several different load options…such as Gravity, applying a Moment,…applying a Bearing load or a Pressure,…in this case though we'll apply…just a simple Force to a face.…We can use metric units or we can also…change things out and say that we want to apply…60 pounds of force to that face,…and we can alter what direction it is…or we can assign another face…to establish the direction from.…

We can also expand this and use vector components,…