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Offline fabr

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Finite Element Analysis-asking for help.
« on: January 19, 2012, 12:44:13 PM »
Do we have any members here that have FEA software? If so I'd appreciate some FEA  help on a shaft design.  I can supply material specs.I can supply CADs of different profiles wishing to FEA.
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Re: Finite Element Analysis-asking for help.
« Reply #1 on: January 19, 2012, 07:27:41 PM »
Software? yes. Computer to run it on? no. My workstation decided it no longer wanted to turn on last week and I am now stuck using My GF's Mac till I fix it. I hate Macs.........
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Re: Finite Element Analysis-asking for help.
« Reply #2 on: January 20, 2012, 06:50:42 AM »
I can probably get that done for you...Probably.  They will have to be modeled in Pro-E.  I might not be overnight as it'll get fit in around real work, I'm not trying to be negative about that I just want you to understand from the start the situation.  I don't do FEA myself (I'm not that smart :)  ) so I have to farm it out to one of my smarter colleagues.  Send me the profiles and the loads and the materials/properties and I'll see what I can do.

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Re: Finite Element Analysis-asking for help.
« Reply #3 on: January 20, 2012, 07:29:54 AM »
P.S.  I can model it in Pro-E if you send me the details.  That's the easy part :)
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Re: Finite Element Analysis-asking for help.
« Reply #4 on: January 20, 2012, 10:16:44 AM »
What type cad file can you use.
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Offline Lance-W

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Re: Finite Element Analysis-asking for help.
« Reply #5 on: January 20, 2012, 10:18:33 AM »
IGES is best but it'll import most others with less than optimum results.
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« Reply #6 on: January 20, 2012, 11:29:06 AM »
I ca do IGES. I'll be in touch tonite/tomorrow. Thanks.
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Re: Finite Element Analysis-asking for help.
« Reply #7 on: January 21, 2012, 11:10:40 AM »
Well,with further thought I decided to go ahead and add FEA to my Alibre CAD.  Really pisses me off though. Previous versions of Alibre had Algorhytmm as part of the package. Not now tho,gotta buy FEMdesigner AD to have FEA integrated nto Alibre CAD. Just more Alibre BS but it is wat it is. Just another yearly expense added to it. IMO all of this stuff is a legal ripoff but again ,it is what it is...........................   Lance,I thank you very much for the offer but,as usual,I always prefer to make my own mistakes. Can't duck my being responsible for whatever results occur that way. ;) ;D Again ,thanks for the offer Lance.
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Re: Finite Element Analysis-asking for help.
« Reply #8 on: January 21, 2012, 02:56:34 PM »
I grabbed a beer and googled this whole thread. Im still not up to speed.



Fabr don't you know ducking your responsibilities is the new Obama way
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Re: Finite Element Analysis-asking for help.
« Reply #9 on: January 21, 2012, 04:36:03 PM »
I just can't bring myself to do it that way Carl.
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Re: Finite Element Analysis-asking for help.
« Reply #10 on: January 23, 2012, 01:29:02 PM »
Does anyone else get very weary of being told by the pros that you can't do something because you didn't "pay your dues spending months/years in school learning something"?  I'm trying my hand with FEA software. I go to the site to ask a question and right off the bat I get the "elite attitude" telling me to go to school. I need to be able to do the math manually before I use FEA. WHY??????? Why should I have to be able to do the math when the software does it? Isn't that what software is for? WHY would I or anyone want to double check their software results manually? Hell,if you gotta do that you might as well just do it manually and forget the "pretty pics" the software produces.To me it just is an elite,I'm gonna protect my years of education,I'm gonna discourage others from doing what I do for a living and spent years learning. Well,I understand the sentiment but fortunately spending months learning the methods is not now a total requirement to do much of what we do now. Sorry others had to spend months or even years(time I don't have) learning what the software already knows. It's called progress. 
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Offline Lance-W

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Re: Finite Element Analysis-asking for help.
« Reply #11 on: January 23, 2012, 01:31:28 PM »
Just ask someone else.  You just talked to a jerk.  If you get the same guy ask for his manager and explain the problem.............
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Re: Finite Element Analysis-asking for help.
« Reply #12 on: January 23, 2012, 01:51:50 PM »
This time it was just a forum. I always do as you suggest if dealing with a company.
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Re: Finite Element Analysis-asking for help.
« Reply #13 on: January 24, 2012, 05:33:17 AM »
 bs1 Yeah thats a crap answer, if you dont want to help someone out why would you join a forum?  And if you dont want to answer it go on to next thread.

On a positive note, for $100 go down to Tulsa and stay at a Holiday Inn Express, by morning you'll have all kinds of FEA crap spewing out of you.  Thats how I became a DR.  rofl
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Re: Finite Element Analysis-asking for help.
« Reply #14 on: January 24, 2012, 05:53:34 AM »
heheheheeeeee
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