From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Shell and Beam Modeling in FEA
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Shell from geometry setup - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Shell and Beam Modeling in FEA
Shell from geometry setup
This video shows a basic shell machine operation carried out using geometry within a solid body and then offsetting the elements. Now, you all upgraded the file baseline_plate in a previous video. If not, you can either open the Solid Works file or a parasolid file from the exercise files. So, here, I'm going to open the baseline_plates Solid Works part. Now, for the second exercise with this geometry, we're going to create a new study directly, without manipulating the geometry. So, go to Simulation, New Study. Let's call this one geometry_plate. We've set it to a static analysis, we'll check OK. And under baseline_plate, there's just one geometry, and it's indicated by the icon to be a solid body. Right mouse click on it, apply, edit material. We're going to add the usual alloy steel. So, we apply, and then we close. Now, we right mouse click on baseline_plate, and now, we want to turn it into a shell mesh. So, we define shell by selected faces, and I want to choose a negative Z…
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