Well, we certainly are doing a lot of talking about Fusion these days. Are we getting your attention? Have you downloaded your copy from //Labs yet? Today I am going to show you a Fusion workflow that you might not have thought of. Consider what is needed to address changes that need to be made to a model after examining the results of a stress analysis run. If you are lucky you use a modeling product that has analysis capabilities built in... if you are even luckier, you are using Algor Simulation 2011 as your analysis tool, which means you can rock Fusion as your geometry creation/editing platform.
Take a look at this rear wing support from an IRL open wheel racer.
We need to perform some linear stress analysis on this part so with a single command within the Fusion environment we can push this to Algor Simulation.
Once in Algor Simulation the analysis environment, boundary conditions, loads, etc is defined and the simulation is run. After viewing the results the decision is made to increase the default plate thickness for the support.
While this sort of modification could be done with Algor Simulation itself, a link exists between the original Fusion model and the analysis input model. It is just this sort of quick geometric change that Fusion excel's at so naturally it is the preferred tool for that type of edit. With the addition of a geometric constraint in Fusion to make the floor of the three pockets coplanar a single Press/Pull command is all that is required to make this change.
Once the edits are complete, all that is required is a single push back to Algor to update the model there. It literally IS that simple.
Well, I hope this gets you guys thinkin'... that's it for me for this week.
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