Force elements

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Force elements

MechDesigner will calculate force vectors that act on Parts. There must be a minimum of one kinematically-defined chain and one Part with Mass and Inertia properties.

Each Part in your model has three sources of Mass and Inertia: those that are defined by the properties of a Profile/ Extrusion, those that you specify explicitly for a Part, and those you import with a SolidWorks part document.

Force elements

Use Force elements to calculate and show the Force vectors that act on joints and the machine elements in your model. You also to Configure the Power Source to flow between kinematic and machine elements.


MD-Globe-www On-line Tutorial: Tutorial 13: Forces Introduction


Force sub-menu

The Force menu is a sub-menu to the Add menu.

Force menu

Force menu

Force toolbar

The Force toolbar is to the right-side of the graphic-area.

Forces toolbar

Forces toolbar


tog_minusKinetostatic Forces - Definitions:
tog_minusAcceleration Definitions:

We calculate those Forces that result from these Accelerations, in particular :