Monday, September 22, 2008

I-formed beam

Today the first 3D file is worked out into a 3D view of displacement of a I-formed beam. Here the thickness, the height and the weight of the beam can be changed. Further the load and the material are variables. In a test model the displacement was not as it should be, looking at the calculation on paper. How this comes is not found out yet. The pictures on this post do give the right view.
As can be seen in the next picture some structure is introduced in the model. In earlier models the variables are already determined so thes can be copied from that file. This means that first the displacement in 3 points is determined and next the cross section is visualised. In the final view these elements are not visible.
Next the visible elements are made. These are just copies of the cross section lines and the line of displacement. Because the same elements are put in the same feature only 4 visible elements are needed.

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