Create a simulation

Create a simulation

1. Open the model you want to analyze. By default, it opens in the modeling environment.
2. On the ribbon Environmentstab Begin panel, click Stress Analysis .
   Note: You cannot enter the Stress Analysis environment while performing an edit in place on a part. However, you can create a Motion Loads simulation (static analysis) in an assembly. You can analyze a single part for the motion load.
3. On the Stress Analysis tab Manage panel, click Create Simulation .
4. In the Simulation Properties dialog box, specify the properties.
   • Exclude components you do not want in the simulation.
   • Specify material for all parts participating in the analysis.
   • Add any necessary constraints. Not mandatory for Modal analysis.
   • Specify location and magnitude for loads. Not mandatory for Modal analysis.
   • Evaluate and specify any necessary contacts.
   • Specify and preview mesh.
5. Click OK. The browser displays simulation nodes and their sub nodes for the component (part or assembly), material overrides, constraints, loads, contacts, meshes, and results.

   The commands on the Stress Analysis ribbon become enabled.

   After you define one or more simulations, you can run them.

Activate a simulation

• In the browser, double-click the inactive simulation node.

Produce variation of simulation

Use copies of a simulation to produce variations of it. Copy does not maintain associativity between the copied object and the pasted object.

1. In the browser, right-click the node of the simulation or object you want to copy, and click Copy Simulation.

   You can copy simulation objects, constraints, loads, manual contacts, and material overrides. You can multiselect the same object type.

2. Right-click the simulation target for the paste action, and click Paste. Or, use Paste on the Edit menu.

   Does not paste Simulation, Mesh, and Convergence settings, and Exclude states.

3. Edit and save the copy of the simulation to create a variation.