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Deformed Beams FS
TimRice
Member, Moderator, Onshape Employees Posts: 315 
Hello all,
I present my first FeatureScript: Deformed Beams. With little experience in programming I set out to create my first FS to gain more knowledge on the subject. I created a FS that calculates and displays the deformation in beams with "simple supports" on each end. Before using the feature you will need to know the beam's area moment of inertia as well as the modulus of elasticity. The result is a new beam part that visually shows the deformation as well as displays the max deformation in the feature name in the featurelist.
Many thanks to @kevin_o_toole_1 , @Jason_S and a few other Onshapers who answered all of my beginner questions!
Link: Deformed Beams
Current capabilities (Start boundary condition/End boundary condition):
As this is my first FS there are likely errors so I look forward to everyone's feedback. Also, I would appreciate submissions of other simply supported beam equations to add more use cases.
I present my first FeatureScript: Deformed Beams. With little experience in programming I set out to create my first FS to gain more knowledge on the subject. I created a FS that calculates and displays the deformation in beams with "simple supports" on each end. Before using the feature you will need to know the beam's area moment of inertia as well as the modulus of elasticity. The result is a new beam part that visually shows the deformation as well as displays the max deformation in the feature name in the featurelist.
Many thanks to @kevin_o_toole_1 , @Jason_S and a few other Onshapers who answered all of my beginner questions!
Link: Deformed Beams
Current capabilities (Start boundary condition/End boundary condition):
- Pin/Roller: Point and Distributed loads
- Fixed/Free: Point and Distributed loads
- Fixed/Fixed: Point and Distributed loads
- Pin/Pin: Point loads
As this is my first FS there are likely errors so I look forward to everyone's feedback. Also, I would appreciate submissions of other simply supported beam equations to add more use cases.
Tim Rice | User Experience | Support
Onshape, Inc.
Onshape, Inc.
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By MPa did you mean GPa for the modulus of elasticity?
Can y'all add inch units for us simple 'mericans?
This is awesome!
However, the beam sometimes gets longer with boundary conditions free and fixed
IR for AS/NZS 1100
Thanks! It is coded for MPa correctly but perhaps GPa does make more sense. Imperial units are something I will tackle in the next version
@mbartlett21
Thank you! Not sure where the error is coming from but it might be related to the number of points I evaluate the deformation equations at. I will take another look at how I could improve that.
Onshape, Inc.
for steel it is 200GPa, but your parameter only allows 100,000MPa
HWM-Water Ltd
and we count in .015625's by the way...
the compromise is nothing is nominal in one axis, and you deal with 2 systems of measure...
inch stock size, metric holes with metric hole locations.
Really pisses off our shop guys who have inch readouts on the bridgeports and the saw guy who refuses to learn how to read the metric side of his tape.
I hate half ass, pick one or the other people!
I think I'll start picketing the whitehouse with a pro-metric rally.
Until then, if my project is in inches, i'd like to keep all the units inch if possible. Same if I was in a metric job.
Sorry Onshape, Solidworks still has you beat here
Where did you get the equations for deformation from?
IR for AS/NZS 1100
Onshape, Inc.