Hi All,

I've modelled a frame using weldments and I'm running a static study on it.

It's been a royal pain which is unusual and it doesn't like meshing properly either.

Is it good practice to export to an iges file then re-import and combine the individual items as a one piece solid and run the analysis?

I tried it on another very simple part and loaded it and allocated it identical material and the results were alarmingly different!

Here's a screenshot of the stress results from the original part file - you can that the results are not symmetrical even though it is constrained and loaded symmetrically.

Any comments would be greatly appreciated

Regards

Paul.