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Table Of Contents
- Contents
- Part 1 Stress Analysis
- 1 Get Started With Stress Analysis
- 2 Analyze Models
- 3 View Results
- 4 Revise Models and Stress Analyses
- 5 Generate Reports
- 6 Manage Stress Analysis Files
- Part 2 Dynamic Simulation
- Index
Simulate Motion
With the dynamic simulation or the assembly environment, the intent is to build a functional
mechanism. Dynamic simulation adds to that functional mechanism the dynamic, real-world
influences of various kinds of loads to create a true kinematic chain.
Understand Degrees of Freedom
Though both have to do with creating mechanisms, there are some critical
differences between the dynamic simulation and the assembly environment.
The most basic and important difference has to do with degrees of freedom.
By default, components in Autodesk Inventor
®
Simulation have zero degrees
of freedom. Unconstrained and ungrounded components in the assembly
environment have six degrees of freedom.
In the assembly environment, you add constraints to restrict degrees of freedom.
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