In this lab you will learn how to import geometry for datum curves from externally generated text files that provide a series of x, y, z points of the desired curve. You can generate these files via Excel, Matlab, C, Labview,…
- Please hand in a screenshot of the deformed plot showing stress distibutions for both the axial case and the bending case. You do not need to do the torsion or the natural frequency exercises included in the tutorial but it would be good practice.
- FEA Tutorial Tips
- due in two weeks, to be turned in with Lab8
- Please hand in a screenshot of the deformed plot showing stress distibutions.
- due in two weeks, to be turned in with Lab8
Matlab scripts for generating points of the helical curve in a text file
Required formatting of ProE .ibl file
- Importing Datum Curves into Pro/ENGINEER
- Complex datum curves are best created outside of Pro/ENGINEER and then imported into Pro/E by importing an ibl file, which is a tab delimited text file that contains the x-, y- and z- coordinates of datum points through which Pro/E will fit splines (formatted as # x y z).
- ProE Matlab Script
Required formatting of SolidWorks .txt file
- SolidWorks uses an even simpler file with just x,y,z values in each row and no header
- SolidWorks Matlab Script
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