This section contains a couple of tutorials that have been specifically designed for the new user. Each procedure page begins with a video demonstrating how to perform the described steps, which are listed immediately below the video. Additional images and guidance have been provided relative to the main set of meshing, modeling, and analysis tutorials. However, the Quick Start Tutorials are also applicable to the more experienced user.
Choose from a linear static stress analysis example and a mechanical event simulation (MES) example.
Click here to download the Quick Start Tutorials datasets from our online data and downloads site. Open or locally save the target zip file and extract the model files to the folder of your choice on your hard drive. The folder into which you extract the model datasets will be your working folder for both of the Quick Start Tutorials.
By default, the desktop CAD solid modeling program, Autodesk Inventor Fusion 2013 R1, is installed automatically when Simulation Mechanical 2014 is installed. The CAD model datasets for the Quick Start Tutorials were created using Inventor Fusion.
When you open a Fusion model in Simulation Mechanical, Fusion will launch automatically, and the model will be transferred from one program to the other. You will not need to interact with Inventor Fusion other than to close it when finished.
If you chose not to install Fusion on your Simulation Mechanical workstation, the datasets will still open successfully. In this case, the data is read directly into Simulation Mechanical rather than being transferred from the CAD program.
If you wish to learn more about modeling in Inventor Fusion, there is a meshing and modeling tutorial in which you Create a Circuit Board CAD Model in Inventor Fusion.