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We know the coordinates of the axis, so we can apply the distance formula to determine the resulting distance between the axis and the point. The probe command displays the tangential displacement at this point as well as the coordinates of the point. I have selected the point where the load is applied as my probe location. You can then select any point(s) on the plot that you want to know the angle of displacement of. This can be done by right clicking the plot from the Simulation tree and going to “Probe”. The best way to find out the displacement at a particular point is to “Probe” a particular place on the plot. Now that we have tangential displacements about our axis of torque we can apply the arc length equation to solve for the angle of displacements. For the case of displacements we want to define a UY Displacement plot and use the axis that we want the displacements about as the reference this will give you a plot of tangential displacements (UX and UZ give radial and axial displacements respectively). Anytime you select an axis as your reference SolidWorks automatically switches to polar coordinates. You may or may not know that under the “Advanced Options” while creating a new plot, you can define a reference plane, axis, or coordinate system. This however does not do us much good if we are looking for angular displacements. After running the analysis and looking at the default displacement plot we can see the resultant displacements. Our goal here is to determine the angular displacement resulting from the torque on the torsion bar.Īs you can see we have the load applied to the end of the plate and have fixed one end of the torsion bar. As you can see below, we have the transverse load applied to the end of a plate attached to the torsion bar which will cause a both a bending moment and torque on the bar. Let’s take a look at how this done in SolidWorks Simulation…įor the purpose of illustration we will use a simple torsion bar with an offset transverse load as an example. From this we can simply apply the arc length formula, S=?r, to get our angular displacement. A common question we often get regarding post processing of a SolidWorks Simulation study is: Does SolidWorks Simulation have a way of displaying displacement plots as angles of displacement in the case of a torsional load? SolidWorks currently does not have this capability directly but allows us to display tangential displacements with respect to an axis.