You can save the true deformed shape of a part or assembly resulting
from running a static or nonlinear study. You can save the deformed geometry as a
new configuration, or a new SOLIDWORKS document. Use the generated geometry for
simulation or manufacturing purposes. This functionality works for solid, shell, and
mixed meshes with solids and shells, and is available in SOLIDWORKS Simulation
Professional and above.
You cannot save the deformed geometry of models with sheet
metals or beams.
For linear static studies, you can use this
functionality to control the shape of the deformed model. For example, consider a
planar plate subjected to a uniform pressure p. If you save and manufacture the deformed shape of the plate under a
uniform pressure -p, the plate will be planar
when the pressure p is applied.
Save Body As
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Configuration in this model |
Save the deformed shape of a part
or assembly as a new configuration. |
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Configuration Name |
Type the name of the new
configuration. |
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New
Part file |
Save the deformed shape of a part
or assembly in a new document. For nonlinear studies, the deformed
shape of the last solution step is saved. |
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Part
Name |
Type the name of the new document.
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Advanced Export
You can save the deformed geometry
directly to a SOLIDWORKS part, or to alternative formats that can help you to re-create
geometry from the deformed shape.
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SOLIDWORKS
body |
Saves the deformed shape of a part or assembly in
a SOLIDWORKS part document. The deformed geometry is shown as
Imported body in the FeatureManager design tree.
Deformed shapes of assembly documents are
saved as multibody parts.
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Tessellated body
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The program divides the deformed
shape into smaller elements to create a closed volume that
faithfully maintains the shape of the deformed body. A tessellated
body is comprised of quadratic geometric surface mesh elements in
deformed regions of the model while maintaining as much of the
original geometry as possible in slightly deformed regions of the
model. |
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Surfaces |
Select in instances where
Solidworks geometry cannot be created from the deformed shape in
simulation, because the individual surface deformations are such
that they cannot be "stitched" back together. The surfaces option
creates as many individual surfaces as possible to represent the
deformed body. In many instances the edges of
the surfaces may not properly line up with the edges of adjacent
surfaces to create a closed volume. Use this option to re-create
the deformed shape using the generated surfaces as a
guide.
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Mesh |
Exports the mesh created in
Simulation. |
When the calculated deformation of the body is below the minimum tolerance
that the program accepts to save a body as deformed shape, the undeformed geometry
is actually saved. For the create a body from deformed shape function, the minimum
tolerance for which the program detects a face as deformed with respect to its
original shape (and as a result it reconstructs the face internally through surface
stitching) is 10e-5 of the characteristic length of the body.