More of Rob's campaign to stop WAG engineering. In this episode of Rob Unscripted, Autodesk Technical Evangelist Rob Cohee explores how the stress analysis tools built into Autodesk Inventor Professional can help designers make more informed decisions and take you beyond 3D geometry creation to Digital Prototyping.
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.
robcohee 2 years ago
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"?
jdavis417 2 years ago