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SolidWorks Simulation Products

Solidworks Simulation

(which is included with SolidWorks Premium)  includes the core tools you should be using to test your designs, whether you're new to analysis or a looking for more advanced results. Featured Simulation capabilities included with SolidWorks Premium include:

• Assembly Simulation: Study the interactions of assembly components on-screen, before incurring the costs of physical prototypes. Simulate static or dynamic loads to evaluate your design’s performance under stress, strain, and displacement
• Simulate Welded Structures: Will your welded structures perform at peak operating conditions? Apply pressure, forces and bearing loads, then use visualization tools like section plots, ISO clipping and animation to review the response
• Tolerance Stack-Up Analysis: With our TolAnalyst tool, you’ll be able to quickly verify dimensioning and tolerancing schemes to ensure proper fit and function. It eliminates the need for hand calculations and manual entry of dimensions and tolerances
• Motion Simulation and Analysis: SolidWorks Motion lets you size motors and actuators, determine power consumption, understand gear drives, and determine how contacting parts behave. Check for colliding parts and output numerical and graphic data of the results, as well as animations of your tests.

Solidworks Simulation Professional

You can accurately simulate real-world operating conditions, reducing the time and costs associated with building and testing prototypes. SolidWorks Simulation Professional helps ensure that your designs can be accurately and cost-efficiently manufactured by finding design errors on-screen–instead of on the production floor.

• Compare and Optimise Alternatives. Determine the best design option by comparing strengths, life, cost, and weight. Perform all comparisons and design modifications within the SolidWorks environment
• Simulate Drop Test or Impact. Save time and cost by reducing the number of physical tests.  Define drop height, surface, and orientation. Perform realistic collision simulation between parts or assemblies.
• Predict Buckling or Collapse. Virtually apply forces, pressure, gravity, and centrifugal forces to your designs to determine maximum loads before buckling. Study the effects of various materials as well as isotopic and orthotropic factors.
• Simulate Heating or Cooling. Thermal analysis capabilities enable you to easily study heat effects on your designs. Simulate thermal boundary conditions, fluid flow, thermal-structural interactions, and radiation effects in high-temperature applications.

SolidWorks Simulation Premium

One of the most comprehensive and sophisticated Analysis (FEA) packages available, SolidWorks® Simulation Premium integrates completely with SolidWorks CAD software. Bring highly advanced validation tools to your design teams at a fraction of the cost of most high-end FEA programs. Any engineer can easily apply SolidWorks Simulation Premium to perform tough validation tasks like these:

• Study the performance of your designs for excessive deflections and stresses under dynamic loads.
• Perform nonlinear analysis–including impact–on plastics, rubbers, polymers, and foam.
• Conduct contact analysis coupled with nonlinear materials.
• Evaluate the behavior of composite materials.

SolidWorks Flow Simulation

Is the first and easiest fluid-flow simulation and thermal analysis program fully embedded within SolidWorks software. SolidWorks Flow Simulation eliminates the need to modify your design for a different computational fluid dynamics (CFD) application saving considerable time and cost.

With its CFD analysis capabilities, you can simulate liquid and gas flow in real world conditions, run “what if” scenarios, and quickly analyse the effects of fluid flow, heat transfer, and related forces on immersed or surrounding components. Fluids of interest for analysis range from air, water, liquid chemicals, and gases to juice, ice cream, honey, plastic melts, toothpaste, blood, and others.

 

• Internal flow analysis of liquids and gases through valves, regulators, and ducts.
• Radiation heat transfer analysis of heat transfer between high-temperature surfaces. Also calculates solar radiation.
• Rotating reference frame analysis for understanding complex rotational flows inside turbo machinery (i.e., pumps and impellers).
• Transient flow analysis for simulating unsteady flow over time

See our Training courses for Simulation