Creating a New Study and Copying Study Features

The program does not update the existing study with the new surface body. Create a study to see the changes to the Parts folder. Then, copy the material properties, connectors, contact conditions, and fixtures from the Sheetmetal_Study study into the new study. You have to redefine the loads, as they applied to faces that no longer exist.

  1. Click New Study (Simulation CommandManager).
  2. In the PropertyManager under Name, enter Surface_Study and click .
    The program creates a static study by default.
  3. Drag the Parts, Connections, and Fixtures folders from the SheetMetal_Study tree to the Surface_Study tab.
  4. Define two pressure loads: 0.12 psi to the back face and 0.73 psi to the bottom face of the seat.
    In the FeatureManager design tree, hide Process-Bends1 from the frame<1> part to locate the faces of the seat.

  5. Right-click the sheet metal body corresponding to the (chair-seat) under the frame-1 folder and select Exclude from Analysis .
    You have the option to exclude bodies from a study without suppressing them. In this particular study, the sheet metal body is irrelevant as the seat is now modeled as a surface body. Also, excluding the sheet metal body, as opposed to deleting it, leaves the body unaltered in the Sheetmetal_Study.
  6. Assign Alloy Steel (SS) material to SurfaceBody 1(Surface-Offset1) and specify the shell thickness as 3 mm with Thick shell formulation.
    Define the shell thickness because the seat is a surface body. Otherwise, the program cannot generate the mesh. For the SheetMetal_Study, you did not define the shell thickness. The program automatically determines the shell thickness from the sheet metal geometry.