Create Spring Structural Elements
The Spring tool recognizes CBUSH connections and absorbs them as springs.
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From the Certification ribbon, click the Spring
tool.
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When Structural elements are created, a structural property can be selected.
Click to define how properties are assigned.
Each structural element must have a structural property assigned to it in order to run method.
- Single property
- Assigns the same structuralproperty entity to all designpoints.
- Duplicate and assign property to all
- Creates a new instance of the selected structuralproperty and assigns the copy to all designpoints.
- Duplicate and assign property per designpoint
- Creates a new instance of selected structuralproperty per designpoint entity.
- This option performs a deep copy, meaning the structural property's references, such as materiel/property, are also copied. Each structural property generated is fully independent.
- This is useful for design exploration where you will update structural properties separately.
- Select CBUSH elements to absorb as springs.
- Optional:
Select a destination DesignPointSet to hold newly created designpoints.
If no set is selected, a new one is created with config Spring.
If you enter this menu from the Certification Browser context menu using Auto DDP, the selector is pre-populated with the selected designpointset.
- Specify a structuralproperty entity to assign.
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On the guide bar, click one of the following:
- - Save changes and stay in the tool.
- - Save changes and close the tool.