Sodacan collapse

[ehaenen]

Isn't it wonderful what you can do with creo 3.0?

it.s not Abaqus yet, but I did manage to collapse a sodacan sort of.

Hope you can see the movie I made

Question here: Can anyone tell me if it's possible to export an animation for simulate results?

it used to be possible in Creo 2.0 (very poor quality) but I don't seem to be able to find it in Creo 3.0

I used a screen grabber now.

Erik

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[mlindqvist]

I normally use external video capture tool. My experience is that the animation files exported from Creo Simulate become unnecessarily large, and of not so good quality.

Cool simulation of the sodacan!

/Mats L

[unickque]

Very cool! Can you tell us a bit more about what you needed to do to get this to work?

Do you think there is a way to prevent the material interference (self-contact in Abaqus) ?

[ehaenen]

Hi Patrick

I've been thinking about self contact, but that would mean establishing a wavelength in the first analysis and then chopping up the can in surfaces that are going to be contact, and rerun the analysis with that. That's alomst cheating, or is it not?

I might write a small blog on the sodacan analysis later this week, on how I did it, how I would have liked to do it and what didn't work. Should not be in this topic.

Do yo also capture animations with a grabber? I use Screencast-o-Matic, but operating it freezes the animation temporarily which is not cute.

[unickque · Accepted solution]

It would be cheating, but it would still be cool.

For grabbing videos I have a utility called CamStudio which is open source freeware. Home page http://www.camstudio.org/

Or even better, get the portable version and put it on a USB stick so you always have it with you, from http://www.portableapps.org/

[gkoch]

The old Export > Movie functionality should be under File > Save As and changing type to Movie (*.avi)

[ehaenen]

Gunter

Thank you, you are correct, I did not see it before.

Unfortunately it is indeed the old functionalitty which would have looked really nice in 2001.

I prefer Patrick's proposal.

But Thanks anyway

erik