- [Narrator] At this point in time,
in our design, we are ready to run simulation
and get the results.
Now I've removed any type of highly detailed features
and added some split line features over here
and over here so I'm applying loads
at their correct locations or I can modify
to get to that point.
And I've selected a high tech engineering material
of pure gold, of course everybody needs
a pure gold bracket and we're going to see if pure gold's
strong enough to hold a thousand pounds.
So here we go, let's run this thing.
Analysis preparation, we've already done that.
Over here to evaluate SimulationXpress,
let's go ahead and just verify everything we have.
Now notice there's a couple problems over here
we've got to fix and a lot of times,
when you get into these models,
you're going to have to fix it up
before you actually run the simulations.
Go ahead and click on Next.
Notice we've got our fixtures
and we are fixture-ing the inside of the hole
and the back surface here.
And that's okay but we might want to
maybe adjust this hole here,
or hit Delete on your keyboard.
Yeah, I'm going to get rid of that one here.
Let's go ahead and add one more.
Instead of that, let's go ahead and choose
this surface here, that surface there,
this guy over here, and over here
to replicate something like a washer and a bolt
pulling down on that bracket
and pulling it against a wall.
Next thing we want to do is go over here to our Load
and notice, there's load here, it's got a problem,
let's go ahead and edit the definition.
Go ahead and click Okay.
And I'm going to choose that inside bore again,
under here, there it is.
And everything is pointing downwards,
which is what we want.
It's a thousand pounds, that looks great.
All right, next thing, we've got a material of pure gold.
Of course, you'd probably never choose pure gold for this
but just in case, we're having fun,
we're learning about SOLIDWORKS
so let's see what happens.
Click on Next and this is where we can adjust our mesh,
we've already covered that
so let's just go ahead and leave it as is
and then click on Run Simulation.
Now, depending on how complex your model is,
this could take three seconds or three hours
and it's going to be asking you,
hey does this look like something that
will really happen in the real world?
And yes, that's about what I was expecting to happen.
So click on Yes, Continue.
Now you can see here, that I've got a factor of safety
of zero, that's bad.
So apparently gold is not the engineering material
that we were hoping for,
we might want to switch to something like steel
or aluminum that might be a little bit stronger.
Let's take a look of what happened here on Stresses.
Click on that one, you can see here we've got
a bunch of different stresses and apparently
we are overloading this piece of material.
And I'll be getting into reviewing those results,
as far as the von Mises stresses, the displacement
and the factor of safety in the next couple of videos
but I did want to just point out,
that's the procedure for just running that simulation.
It's pretty straight forward,
you can easily see it's just literally,
one through six to go through a
SimulationXpress analysis to get where we need to go.