Re: Sideways Open Bearings
Thanks for that routercnc!
BTW, can you do modal analysis of parts?
Re: Sideways Open Bearings
Hi RouterCNC, what package are you using for that?
Re: Sideways Open Bearings
Hi Tenson, Irving2008
The software is called Catia V5 made by Dassault. It is a very powerful piece of software designed for high end use, and very expensive. FEA is just one small part of the software.
I'm sure there are cheaper packages out there which will do the FEA part of the job - on simple parts at least.
It will also do modal analysis although I've not used it for that.
Re: Sideways Open Bearings
Been looking for a freeware FEA package. Been playing with LISA but the 300 node limit of the free package is... limiting ! And I'm too tight fisted to spend $80 on the full one until I'm sure I can use it properly!
Re: Sideways Open Bearings
Hi Irving2008,
I don't want to hijack Tenson's thread so if you want to ask around the forum then maybe with your access permissions post #8 onwards (that would be yours and mine then!) could be edited out into a new thread, asking about experiences of FEA software?
I did a search of this site for 'FEA' and there were a few mentions of it but not a specific discussion or list of more affordable software. Maybe only a few people become interested enough to go that far. I know Jonathan has used some software which looks a bit like something from the SolidWorks family, but could be wrong - the end results displays are often similar between packages.