Some IV vs. Pro/E questions

[sciguy77]

Hey,

 

I'm a student trying to get into design ahead of the curb, and I'm looking into design software. I operate on a macbook air, so IV is an obvious choice. Not to mention the cost.

 

A friend who uses Pro/Engineer (I think they've changed the name now to Creo) tells me that Pro/E has a feature that takes a design and recreates it using the least amount of material possible without loosing structural integrity. Is there something like this in IV?

 

How does the stress testing work? Do you input the material being used (i.e. ABS plastic) and apply a force and direction?

 

 

Thanks

[JD Mather]

How does the stress testing work? Do you input the material being used (i.e. ABS plastic) and apply a force and direction?

 

That is the way it works in any program.

They generaly have a library of materials pre-defined. (Autodesk also owns MoldFlow and Inventor Professional includes over 7,000 plastic materials from MoldFlow in Inventor Tooling.) Autodesk also owns Algor.

Dynamic Simulation in Inventor Professional add additional functionality where motion loads are applied from the moving joints for FEA analysis.

 

Students can download Inventor Professional and Algor for free from http://www.autodesk.com/edcommunity

 

I recommend you first learn the modeling software (Inventor or Pro/E) and master than before moving on to FEA and Dynamic Simulation (Mechanical Event Simulation). About a 2-3 year undertaking.