Perhaps the most notable change here is the contacts and mesh control. Once the assembly model has been simplified to the desired level, the next stage is to apply load and constraints. This will significantly simplify the analysis by reducing the number of automatic contacts produced and will speed up runtimes. Non-structural components of the assembly can be disregarded for the purposes of simulation by right clicking the component and simply selecting ‘exclude from simulation’ (see Figure 2). The contact tolerance settings can also be altered to allow for the automatic contact generation between components that have clearances or gaps. Like the in-built analysis within previous releases, motion loads transferred from dynamic simulation can be used as well. Alongside the assembly analysis tools, the software includes parametric analysis functionality that automates the simulation of design configurations and variants, allowing the user to determine the optimum product design without the need to perform a time consuming series of repetitive analyses.Įxclusion of non structural components for simulation This all changes with this release.įor Inventor Simulation 2010 Autodesk has incorporated technology from its recent acquisition of Plassotech to finally bring native assembly-based simulation capabilities to Inventor. As a result, those looking for analysis and simulation turned to the wealth of third-party Inventor-integrated simulation tools. While it gave a quick way for users unfamiliar with Finite Element Analysis (FEA) to get a foot in the door, the facts are that most engineering processes involve multiple components and the system wasn’t up to the job.

Based on technology from Ansys it allowed users to perform basic stress and modal analysis, but it had one major drawback – it only worked with single parts.

The first generation of stress analysis was first introduced into Inventor around six or seven years ago.

Inventor 2008 mesh enabler