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From the Compass, click Model Assembly Design.
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From the Automated FEM section of the action bar, click Automated FEM
.
Note:
If a Confirmation dialog box displaying
the message Product structure not up to date appears,
click Yes to continue.
The Automated FEM dialog box appears, indicating
the available methods for generating a FEM representation.
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From the General Purpose section, click User
Driven.
The Automated FEM: User Driven dialog box appears and
displays the structure of the model.
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Right-click the Procedure cell for any row containing a
part, such as Hollow shaft A.1.
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From the context menu, click .
The Inputs dialog box appears.
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Edit the inputs for the procedure.
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From the Selection mode options, select
All geometries.
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Enter 10mm as the Mesh
size.
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From the Element order options, select
Linear.
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Enter 0.1mm as the Sag
value.
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Select Create solid section.
You must create a solid section before you can apply a material
definition to the parts.
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Click OK.
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Right-click the Tetrahedron Mesh procedure that you
previously applied, and select .
The app applies the tetrahedron mesh to all parts in the model, using the same input
parameters that you defined for the first part.
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Click Run.
The Finite Element Model dialog box appears, showing the
progress as the app creates the FEM representations for all the parts. This process might take
several minutes. When the process completes, the results become available in the
Automated FEM: User Driven dialog box and the updateapp the model in the 3D area.
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Click Refresh to update the mesh, and then click
Yes to refresh the session.
The app shows the new finite element model names in the
Procedure column, and the
Report column shows the status of each mesh. All
rows show a report with a green dot
indicating no problems with the meshes. You can click the reports to see
more details.
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From the tree, right-click the driveshaft assembly's new FEM representation, click
Properties, and rename it Global
FEM.
Renaming objects makes it easier to identify them in the tree, especially when your simulation includes multiple objects of the same
type.

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Click OK.
The 3D area displays the global model with all of its parts meshed. The app meshed each part individually and collected the meshes to create the global
FEM.
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