Design Validation Inside Solid Edge Motion Simulation

Highlights
• Virtual Design Validation –
Dynamic Designer allows you to
calculate “Testing” type results from
your existing Solid Edge assembly.
Data such as displacements, veloci-
ties, accelerations and reaction
forces are determined without the
time and cost of physical production

• Easy start up - Single window

integration with Solid Edge means you
do not need to transfer geometry to an
unfamiliar environment or learn a new
user interface.

• A Product for any budget -

Three product choices: Simply
Motion (which already comes with
Solid Edge), Motion, and Motion Pro-
fessional, allows you to choose the
level of product that fits your needs
today and the ability to expand as
your needs change

Generating Design Confidence • Engineering Versatility - With a

complete set of motion specific
Solid Edge allows you to easily create 3D solid models that help you objects, Dynamic Designer allows
understand the form and the fit of your design. Once complete, product you to solve a broad class of
assembly is easy and frustrating part interferences are now virtually a engineering problems. From simple
thing of the past. So everything is perfect, right? Well, not quite. In mechanisms with only a few parts to
most situations, you need documented proof that your design will not the most complicated assemblies con-
taining gears, cams, latches, and so-
only work, but withstand a variety of intended (and sometimes unin-
phisticated contacts and friction can
tended) operating conditions. To validate your design, you can perform quickly and easily be addressed
physical evaluations, either by testing prototypes in a lab, or by field
testing the assembled product. No matter which method you choose, • Effective communication –
each requires several costly and time consuming design changes be- Animations of your design’s motion,
fore you arrive at a design that has both your complete confidence and coupled with it’s related engineering
documented operational proof. There must be a faster, more efficient data, is a powerful way to communi-
way. cate design functionality across dis-
placed product teams
Evaluate More Product Designs, Faster
• Motion...A Pre-requisite for FEA -
What if you could generate the product confidence you want and the Motion Simulation allows you to gen-
erate accurate bearing loads to be
operational proof you require inside Solid Edge during the design proc- used as inputs for Finite Element
ess? Before you ever create a physical part or perform a physical test, Analysis
you could see the effects of each design change and the impact they
have on the design’s behavior. You would be able to evaluate more • Industry proven reliability -
design options, faster and at a lower overall cost. To help make Powered by the MSC.ADAMS solver,
™

"getting it right the first time" more than just a slogan, you need a tool Dynamic Designer provides you with
that will help you investigate the function of your design at the same reliable, accurate, and efficient dy-
time you evaluate form and fit. This is exactly what Dynamic Designer namic motion calculations
can help you do.
Embedded = Easy to Use
Simulation
Tailored for the designer or design engineer, Dynamic De- Running a simulation is as simple as specifying how
signer is completely embedded inside the Solid Edge envi- long you want the process to run and then clicking the
ronment. Being embedded means that start-up or “learning calculator icon to compute your motion results.
curve” time is very short because the need to learn a new
product interface or spend time transferring Inventor ge-
ometry to some outside environment is eliminated. By using
Dynamic Designer, the process of verifying the function of
your design becomes an extension of your existing product
design process instead of crossing over into your manufac-
turing process.

Motion Simulation: A Simple Process

The process for conducting a motion study inside Solid

Edge involves four basic steps:

• Creating the Motion Model

• Adding/Controlling Motion
• Running the Simulation
• Reviewing Results Run Simulation

Results
Creating a Motion Model Dynamic Designer calculates several types of results
Once an assembly is complete, mechanical joints are easily
that you can use to verify the operation of your design.
created, either by automatically converting them from your
Moving interference animations, AVI and VRML files
existing assembly constraints using Dynamic Designer’s
give you the visual feedback you need to understand if
Automatic Constraint Mapping, or by using the unique
your design will work properly. However, what truly sets
Intellimotion builder which walks you through the step-by-
Dynamic Designer apart from a general animation pack-
step model building process.
age is the ability to provide engineering data associated
with the movement of the assembly. Result vectors and
plots of displacement, velocity, acceleration and forces,
give you the numerical information you need to fully un-
derstand the performance of your design. As you make
design changes, you can compare the data to verify de-
sign improvement.

Original Model Modified Model

Adding and Controlling Motion

Mechanisms can be controlled in many ways. To make
your simulation closely reflect real word functionality, Dy-
namic Designer allows you to add various motion charac-
teristics to your model. Dynamic Designer supports motors,
actuators, gravity, realistic contact between bodies, springs,
friction, damping and other generated forces as needed.
Motion Simulation – A Prerequisite to FEA
The steps involved in the motion simulation
Better inputs = Better outputs. For finite element analysis, process become an extension of the product
accurate inputs are a key factor impacting the quality of development process
the overall finite element results. With Dynamic Designer
you are provided with the visual and numerical under-
CAD
standing of how a mechanism will perform, as well as the Assembly
ability to calculate the forces associated with a mecha-
nism’s operation. Loads produced by Dynamic Designer
provide more accurate input for use in FE studies thereby Build Motion Model
improving the overall confidence in finite element analy- Automatic Joints from Assembly Manual Joint Creation Gears,
Automatic Joints from Assembly Manual Joint Creation Gears,
sis. Constraints
Constraints
Cams, belts, etc.
Cams, belts, etc.

Add
AddActuators
Actuators

Add Forces - Friction, dampers, linear/non-linear springs, contact, etc.

Add Forces - Friction, dampers, linear/non-linear springs, contact, etc.

Run Simulation

Review Results
Animation Moving XY Plots
Animation Moving XY Plots
Interference
AVI Interference Displacement
AVI Checking Displacement
Checking Velocity
VRML Velocity
VRML Acceleration
Acceleration
Force
Force

Does It Work?

Easily calculate the effects of reaction forces from Export to FEA Build Prototype
your mechanism’s motion so you can obtain
accurate stress results from FEA applications. Dynamic Designer Applications
Dynamic Designer Motion Professional provides
you with the most complete simulation environment • Size Motors and Actuators
for modeling and understanding, real world
• Determine how contact and collision effect the opera-
engineering problems in the Solid Edge
tion of a design
environment.
• Understand mechanism power consumption
• Determine bearing loads critical to accurate FEA
• Detect part interference throughout range of motion
• Simulate lock and latch operations
• Layout linkages and see how they work
• Design, visualize and investigate gear drive motion
• Create and simulate cam driven mechanisms
• Understand how friction effects operation
• Optimize springs and dampers in a mechanism
• Understand and reduce system vibrations

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Geometry
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Animation ● ● ●
Moving interference checking ● ● ●
Find first point of interference ● ● ●
Animation to AVI ● ● ●
Animation to VRML ● ● ●
Calculated Results
Linear displacement ● ●
Angular displacement ● ●
Velocity ● ●
Acceleration ● ●
Reaction forces and moments ●
Animated Results Vectors for Veloc- ● ●
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