This video pretty much simplifies most things on simulation at the beginner level and it is still valid for March 2022.

Best watched at 1.5x speed

There is a problem with this setup: the "frictionless" constraint attaches the entire back surface of the bracket to the wall. In reality, top part of the bracket would bend a little forming a gap with the wall. It should be another stress line that goes through bolt axes. Imagine a long bracket (say 300mm each side) with bolts at the very bottom of it (say, 10mm from the bottom edge). The wall would support only lower 10mm of it - imagine how the bracket would bend where the bolts are. Anyway, great video - thanks!

Excellent as usual. This was my first expereince with a simulator of any kind, and I'm not an ME, but I still easily followed along and understood.

You are a legend . This really opened up the complexity that I did't understand.

Incredibly, helpful! I never comment on KZfaq videos but this was so helpful that I had to. Thanks again!!!

This is absolutely amazing. Super helpful and easy to follow.

well explained i want to see more advanced simulation from you Thankyou @christensen

All your tutorials are amazingly engaging! This one remembered me of something I tell my students whenever I have the occasion: "Structures behave the way you build them, not the may you simulate them" ... Well, I must admit I kind of care who Von Mises was ;) Greetings from Spain and thank you sooooo much for your generous contributions...

Very good again Lars. I remember this sort of FEA analysis used to take hours to mesh up by hand, an overnight to solve, and 2"in of printout to wade through. How fortunate we all are now. A few clicks and we're done. Thanks again. Great explanation.

Another great video of yours Lars, taking us by the hand and relieving the fear of steping into a dark pond :) Gratefully

Excellent tutorial! I am taking a CAD CAM digital manufacturing course and this week we are going to work on simulation on Fusion 360- Watching your tutorial helped me to understand better. Looking forward to contact you for further questions.

Very useful video! Thanks!

Really great video for fusion 360 simulation, great help ,nice and clear style, Many greetings from Cairo

Very Good presentation! You kept it simple and to the point. I would love to see a presentation like this on CFD for beginners.

Lars. I LOVE your teaching style. Take it from me, a teacher, that you have what it takes. That said, I am wondering if you have done a shape optimization tutorial or are planning on one? Seeing where stress occurs on this simple bracket part is great. But if I don't actually know what shape I want, and am instead more interested in the performance of a part, then I think shape optimization is ideal. What comes to mind in that regard are animal bones. They are odd shaped at first glance, but when analyzing their performance, it's obvious their shape is ideal for what they do. In other words, they have been shape optimized! It would be engaging to do a tutorial looking at bones to see how optimized they actually are. Comments?

Absolutely incredible. I am starting pretty new with this and your explanations make perfect sense! Thank you Lars!

Thank you so much. really great explanation. Must watch video for beginners.

This is another section i have not got into yet would like to thanks lars great video as always and the info

Love this, even if you cant use the correct material for lets say 3D printing and find out exactly how much load it can take, you can see how different techniques on strengthening the part will affect the outcome in strength.

Good video, Lars - much appreciated.

Amazing tutorial, gets straight to the point and explains everything very well

Thanks for posting but I had to watch at 3.2x to get through it. You really know your stuff so write a script to prevent repetition.

Awesome video. Thank you. I have had Fusion 360 for a day.

Thank you very much Lars i'm new with simulation so this vide0 helps very much. Greetings out of Holland.

Great training video, thanks Lars.

Thanks Lars, nice beginning point to using this incredible tool suite.

thank you! cheers from Brazil

such a great teacher!!!!!!!!

Lars sure loves his drinks :D Whiskey while waiting for the simulation to solve, champagne when it's done! Thank you for the great video Lars!

This was really useful and simple to undestand, Thanks!

Thank you! Really informative and sympathetic!

Thank you

Sir great work for beginners like me. Keep it up and thank you.

Wonderful video Lars! This is an area that I am very exited and interested in. It has also been an area of confusion for me. Much less so now. Thank you.

Pretty slick. I managed to get a sensible simulation working in no time. Thanks.

I have watched this video Thank you Lars Christensen ..im beginner to CAD Software

Does that "Frictionless" constraint force the top of the part to stay against the "wall" too though? In real life, the top of the part could still leave the wall and cause stress around the tops of the holes. I think the real result is actually between the two first simulations.

You are the very best !!! I am learning rapidly as a result of your efforts.

Excellent teacher

Excellent! Great help. was just starting to try to get a grip on that simulation thing, and this is a wonderful first step. Impatient to see the next.... (nudge, nudge!) :-)

Lars..Thank You!

Thank you, my favourite channel for everything fusion

I bought an year's paid subscription to fusion 360 recently just to find out that all the features i bought the paid subscription for, require me to pay even more to use.

I wish you were my professor in university 😪 such a nice explanations thank you so much sir fr this video i got some motivation ❤

You are a great help! keep up the great work!

“And my PhD, yeah well that never happened.” Lol. Awesome Lars.

Thanks for your great Video, very very nice and clear English und easy to unterstand for me. Greetings from Germany

Been a struggle to get my head around F360 in a month - and the sim scales were driving me nuts! You hit the nail on the head. My hat off to you. But do have a Q - how come the structural analysis does not have the same "actual displacement" deformation feature as the stress analysis display???

Absolutely perfect! Great video!!

Simple , clear, and very useful 👍🏻

awesome. helped a bunch

Hello my name is Hussain I love the way you explain for all the beginner in your documentary.

Thank Dude for providing such great content for free. Will you make a video for simulating a chassis in fusion 360? give it a thought.

Is the second constraint actually correct? (the frictionless one) Now (tell me if i'm wrong) the bracked is fixed "to the wall" using the entire back face, and this removes the strain from the screw holes. The problem is that the wall prevents the bottom part of the bracket from tilting back, but does not actually prevent the top portion from bending ahead stressing the screw holes. I'm just curious, probabily it was a semplification for the tutorial However great tutorial, very useful.

Great video! Thanks a lot!

thanks lars, needed this for a desk for a custemer thank you

fantastic - i was just searching for this - thank you!

you can choose deformation scale: actual - adjusted0.5x - adjusted - adjusted2x - adjusted5x and will look more natural

Hi! I didn't understand why it's necessary using the frictionless gadget. What's change if I don't?

Just a thought. Would it be a more accurate simulation if the wall constraint starts from the bottom of the part to the top of the bolt hole since that is the pivot point of the part with the given load.

u re the best man nice job.thanks so much

Hi Lars, thanks for the explanation, keep on doing the good job :-)

very good video, thank you

so helpful sir

Enjoy all your tutorials, without them could not learn fusion 360, question on this video about load. Why are the fasteners (bolts) not shown, they the major component in the system.

great lesson, thanks

YES!! It finally makes some sense. :-)

Thank you for sharing this informative video! 🐦🖐

Hi Lars. Thanks for the explain. But i think the last "wall" fixture was an mistake. The part must be in the upper level from the screws not mounted to the wall. But how we (you) can solve this fixture? The lower part will be pressed to the wall, and the upper will be bended from the wall away. Maybe you can explain it? Cheers Remo

Thanks Lars, great tutorial really helped :)

Thanks Lars this video really helped out

naizz and simply explained for beginners, like usual the thumbs down are not commented by "the owners"...

Hello Lars! I am designing and building my my own type of reverseble hydraulic pump, i have only so far played around with sketchup and let the pro´s do the cad designs. But i have not got Fusion 360 and trying to learn it my self. I was wondering if you wanted to build my engine for educational purpose? I can send you some pictures of it and we´ll see if you are interested in modelling it! Best regards, A fellow nord.

Thank you very much

Great video, thanks!

Hi Lars, great video! I'm a big fan of yours! May you also import directly scan data in form of a STL file and do simulation on that?

Hi Lars. you are Brilliant man but i have a question about rigid body connector. could you please make some video to show us how it works? when should i use it? thanks

Is this sim capable of working out plastic deformation to calculate force or displacement required to bend something a certain amount?

I like your tutorial videos. THX

Thanks Lars, fantastic tutorial video. Do you perhaps how to analyse uniformly distributed / varying loads over a portion of a beam? I'm busy with stress analysis of beams. Can that load be of a different shape instead of a circle?

great job sir

My question is how to define a vertices constraint in the middle of a round bar in static stress analysis ?

thanks so much :)

Thank so much to you,

thanks!

Thanks my dude. Great video for noobs like me.

Why can't we use plastic for this like for 3D printed parts? Also, you need higher res on your webcam.

Very interesting..i just want to know do we have to know engineering and math to learn these kinds of stuff?

Hi Lars A few lessons back you mentioned that its good practice to turn off all other components before doing a press-pull on the active one. I am designing a china cabinet that has well over 30 components and its a pain turning each off before press pulling on the one I am working with. Is there a way to turn off ALL the components - then I could just turn back on the one I'm working with. Love your videos - the best by far !! cheers Derrick

More Good stuff..... Thanks ! !

love the jersey accent

Simulation appears to be blocked in my student edition

Hi Lars, I have worked with CAD software over a decade ago, but I am quite new to Fusion 360. Do you know of a way to simulate gravity and torque in an animated assembly with several moving parts? Something like a lever and fulcrum with shifting weights that can move along the fulcrum. Do you have a video that would explain that, or could you create a video that would show how that is done?

Nice video, thx for that, very helpful ! How can we tell the simulator that the contact with the wall is just below the screws and not above ?

Sorted me out! Thanks

Nice video sir. By the way, i wonder if fusion360 is capable doing FEA for any anisotropic material (such as polymer or composite) cause i thought that von misses is only appropriate on isotropic material.

Today is wednesday 😆

Hi Lars, thanks for your great tutors! I was wondering how you can solve press-fits, like a bushing press-fitted in a housing. Other simulation software have special type of contacts for this such as shrink-fit or so, I don’t see this type of contacts and I didn’t find any example of shrink-fit so far, how would you define such in Fusion 360 simulation?

I am now to 360. And I am trying to set my car wheel out on the simulation but struggling to know what I need to do.