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Creo Simulate - Restricted to 5 frames for static stress results animation (assembly fea analysis)

  • August 28, 2013
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Good Day All,

I hope I'm missing something, Are we restricted to 8 frames of animation in the results window?

I'm trying to animate the results from an static Creo 2 Simulate analysis (mechanica) run on a assembly.

When I go to set up the number of frames it only allows 5 frames, no more and no less than 8.

Anyone else run into this?

Thanks,

Don Anderson


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    Best answer by TadDoxsee

    Hi Don,

    I assume that you are running a non-linear analysis, is that correct? If that is the case, then if Simulate were to support animating more frames than were computed, then the results shown between the computed frames would be an approximate linear interpolation. Is that the functionality you are requesting?

    (For those new to Simulate, if you run a linear static analysis, then you can animate many linearly interpolated frames in Results.)

    Tad Doxsee

    PTC

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    346gnu13-Aquamarine
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    September 9, 2013

    Don,

    Isn't it 1 set of results per time step, (no interpolating between time steps).

    Your 4 steps plus a 0th?

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      danderson1-VisitorAuthor
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      September 9, 2013

      Charles,

      Yes to your question.

      My issue is the system will only allow you to show animation frames of 0 plus the number of load steps you specified in the analysis.

      If you specify one load step you get frames for step 0 and step 1. This makes it vary hard and computer resource demanding to trouble shoot large assembly fea analysis.

      Wish they would give us the ablitity to specify more frames to animate without having to add additional load steps.

      Don

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        TadDoxsee1-VisitorAnswer
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        September 9, 2013

        Hi Don,

        I assume that you are running a non-linear analysis, is that correct? If that is the case, then if Simulate were to support animating more frames than were computed, then the results shown between the computed frames would be an approximate linear interpolation. Is that the functionality you are requesting?

        (For those new to Simulate, if you run a linear static analysis, then you can animate many linearly interpolated frames in Results.)

        Tad Doxsee

        PTC

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