SolidWorks 2010 Understanding the functionality in Simulation Products

Define the material, define how the part is restrained, define the loading forces and away you go. Real power in the hands of ebvery designer.

Study the interactions of assembly components onscreen, before incurring the costs of physical prototypes. Accurately simulate static or dynamic loads to evaluate your design’s performance under stress, strain, and displacement.

Apply a wide variety of physics-based models to simulate real-world operating conditions for your design. Check for colliding parts. Output numerical and graphic data of the results, as well as animations of your tests.
Mechanism Simulation
Apply a wide variety of physics-based models to simulate real-world operating conditions for your design. Check for colliding parts. Output numerical and graphic data of the results, as well as animations of your tests.

Ensure your welded structures perform at peak operating conditions. Apply pressure, forces, and bearing loads. Then use powerful visualization tools like sections plots, iso-clipping, and animation to review the response of either the full assembly or only certain parts.

TolAnalyst allows tolerance stack-up analysis directly inside SolidWorks, and analyses designs based on the order and manner in which parts are assembled, as well as DimXpert-applied dimensions and tolerances. Determine if your design meets fit and function requirements without tedious and error-prone hand calculations

Save the time and cost of prototyping AND create safer, more durable products. Predict structural failure thresholds due to yielding, overheating, buckling, and fatigue. Evaluate failure of both common materials as well as more advanced materials such as plastics, elastomers, and layered composites

Determine the best design option by comparing strengths, life, cost, and weight. Perform all comparisons and design modifications within the SolidWorks environment. Simulate Natural Frequencies

Predict and control your products natural modes of vibration to avoid potentially damaging resonant frequencies. Study the effects of both loads and material choices on your products performance.

Predict Buckling or Collapses - 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.

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.

Save time and cost by reducing the number of physical tests. SolidWorks gives you integrated capabilities for detailed drop-test simulation. Define drop height, surface, and orientation. Perform realistic collision simulation between parts or assemblies. Visualize resulting contact, deflection, and even part-part separation.

With SolidWorks, you have the tools you need to simulate, evaluate, and improve a part or assembly that must withstand the rigors of daily operation. Evaluate the differences in your system’s performance to varying speeds or frequencies, and estimate the design life of your entire product.

Simulate Forced Vibrations Predict and control vibrations or dynamic responses in your products with a choice of integrated design studies, including Transient study, Harmonic Response study, and Random Response study.

Thoroughly test and validate your designs with a broad range of advanced capabilities, including: nonlinear displacement analysis, nonlinear buckling analysis and snap-through events, analysis of nonlinear materials, design optimization of hyperelastic materials, onset-of-yield and post-yield elastoplastic analysis, creep effects and temperature-related material changes, dynamic response analysis of parts and assemblies.

Capture all the behavior of your plastic parts without special training or add-ins. Choose the best materials and material models for your design challenges. Simulate your plastic components in all possible tests and environments, and optimize parts for volume and cost.