Yeah, this is another FEA thread related to the chassis...but I dont think this has been discussed yet.
How do you do a beam element FEA? I draw say a single line in mechanical desktop and then try to bring it into ansys 9.0 workbench but it is unable to. I was told Ansys was capable of doing this...was I told wrong?
Do any of you guys have any experience with the Mechanical desktop/Ansys combo? We also have Algor and cosmosexpress available to us, but again we havent had any luck. There must be something simple that I am missing.
I have a year and a half of experience FEA'ing various parts with Ansys, but they have always been solid models.
thanks for any help... I am not asking for anything to be handed to me... just point me in the right direction.
--Adrial