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Interested in SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD software?

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SOLIDWORKS Simulation

SOLIDWORKS Simulation allows product engineers to make technical decisions driven by simulation insights, resulting in benefits for both product design and for their businesses.

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  • Product engineers can use powerful and intuitive SOLIDWORKS Simulation software to virtually test new ideas, quickly and efficiently evaluate performance, improve product quality and innovate with the knowledge provided gained through testing.

    3D virtual simulation is an important engineering tool for synthesising and defining physical products.

    Sophisticated simulation is no longer just for specialists, as manufacturing companies across a broad range of industries have discovered.

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Reasons to choose SOLIDWORKS Simulation

  • Boost new product innovation

    Empower your engineering team with intuitive, powerful 3D simulation tools to compare design scenarios and create innovative new ideas.

  • Improve product efficiency

    Improve product performance, such as lower pressure drop and increased horsepower. Improve eco-effectiveness of product designs.

  • Decrease product development costs

    Fully integrated virtual testing enables you to spot potential design issues early, reducing the need for multiple costly prototypes.

  • Shorten time to market

    Get it right first time! Optimise product development by testing for structural, fluid flow, motion, plastics moulding and sustainability issues.

  • Concurrent workflow

    Our Simulation software solution offers a best in class product design workflow. Simulation is 100% associative with the mechanical design process.

  • Familiar interface

    Work directly within the SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD UI you’re used to – without the need to redesign or waste time with export/import processes.

SOLIDWORKS Simulation Packages

Feature Premium Professional Standard
+ Ease of use
  • – Easy pick up and quick to get up-to-speed
  • – Embedded into SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD
  • – Advanced online help
+ Concurrent engineering
  • – Full associativity with 3D design changes made in SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD
  • – Supports SOLIDWORKS configurations
  • – SOLIDWORKS material properties support
+ Finite Element Analysis (FEA)
  • – Solid, shell and beam modelling
  • – ‘H’ and ‘P’adap- ve element types
  • – Mesh control capabilities
  • – Simplify model tool for meshing
  • – Customisable material library
+ Contacts and connectors
  • – Bonded contact condition
  • – Node to node surface condition
  • – Shrink fit condition
  • – Surface to surface condition
  • – Virtual wall condition
  • – Connectors: Bolt/spring/pin/elastic and bearing support
  • – Connectors safety check
+ Post processing
  • – Contour, ISO surface, surface, section result plot
  • – Probe tool
  • – Design insight
  • – Compare test data
  • – List values on selected entities
  • – Animation of results
+ Communication
  • – Customisable simulation report
  • – eDrawings of simulation results
+ Linear static simulation for assembly
  • – Structural behaviour of parts and assemblies
  • – Structural loads
  • – Temperature loading
  • – Import flow/thermal effects
  • – Calculation of stress, strain, displacement and FOS
  • – Calculation of reaction forces and moments
+ Time-based mechanism motion simulation
  • – Evaluate how products will perform throughout its operational cycle
+ Design comparison studies
  • – “What if” scenarios based on user-defined variables
+ Trend Tracker
  • – Detect trends from different iterations of a study
+ Fatigue simulation
  • – Life expectancy under repeated loading
  • – Theory of cumulative damage
  • – Fatigue check plot
  • – Outputs: Life damage and FOS
+ Topology studies
  • – Perform structural topology studies during design to cut out costly prototypes, discover new minimal material design alternatives and reduce material costs.
+ Pressure vessel design simulation
  • – Analyse parts and assemblies under pressure loading
  • – Linear combination and sum of squares (SRSS)
+ 2D simulation
  • – Plane stress and strain
  • – Axisymmetric
+ Event-based motion simulation
  • – Create motion simulations based on process – not time
  • – Trigger actions by completion of previous tasks
  • – Create drives with real input control methods with servo motors
+ Advanced contacts and connectors
  • – Thermal contact resistance condition
  • – Insulated condition
  • – Edge and spot weld connector
+ Frequency simulation
  • – Analyse natural frequencies of parts and assemblies
  • – Import flow/thermal effects
  • – Load stiffening
+ Buckling or collapse simulation
  • – Analyse slender structures for buckling factors and associated buckling mode shapes
  • – Import flow/thermal effects
+ Structural thermal simulation
  • – Easily study heat effects on your designs
  • – Simulate thermal boundary conditions
  • – Simulate thermal-structural interactions
  • – Simulate radiation effects in high temperature applications
+ Drop test simulation
  • – Analyse impact of drop on part or assembly
  • – Inputs: Drop height, gravity, velocity at impact
  • – Outputs: Stress, displacement and strains
+ Sub modelling simulation
  • – Analyse structural resistance of sub model
+ Load case manager
  • – Evaluate the effects of different load effects
+ Non linear simulation
  • – Transient (time-dependent) loads
  • – Harmonic analysis
  • – Random vibration analysis
  • – Response spectrum analysis
+ Dynamic simulation
  • – Modal time history analysis
  • – History analysis
  • – Harmonic analysis
  • – Random vibration analysis
  • – Estimate component life based on dynamic testing
+ Composite component simulation
  • – Understand component response with analysis of composite parts
  • – Optimise material selection and orientation composite ply layer
  • – Ensure product quality, performance and factor of safety

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