Autodesk Inventor Parametric Optimization

[jdavis417]

This is an exciting (and new-to-me) Inventor application. I'd love to see our company embrace these tools and avoid WAG engineering. I'm guessing we'd need to upgrade a few seats to the Professional flavor... Is it correct to interpret the "displacement" value as "deformation"?

[robcohee]

From Jay Tedeschi - our simulation guru: They are often interpreted as the same, and in some cases can be, but they are in fact two different properties.

Deformation is just that, the change in shape or form of a component due to applied forces. Displacement is the value, in distance (or volume) of the amount of deformation.