SolidWorks Simulation

SolidWorks Simulation offers the advanced design validation capabilities for every product designers and engineers. It provides simple, accurate design analysis that leads to better products by giving designers a safety net for catching errors. Designers are free to innovate, secure in knowledge that they won’t pass costly mistakes down the line.

SolidWorks Simulation is completely embedded inside the SolidWorks interface eliminating the need for time-consuming geometry transfers to other analysis packages and eliminating the need to learn a different software interface.

SolidWorks Simulation Professional

Fully integrated with SolidWorks CAD software, SolidWorks Simulation Professional provides a wide spectrum of powerful tools to expand the capabilities of your virtual testing environment, optimize your validated designs, and helps shorten the prototype cycle and get products market faster.

Featured SolidWorks Simulation Professional capabilities:

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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, yet sophisticated Finite Element Analysis (FEA) packages available, SolidWorks Simulation Premium integrates completely with SolidWorks CAD software. It brings highly advanced and tremendous range of design validation tools that will help your design teams at a fraction of the cost of most high-end FEA programs, with none of the complexity.

SolidWorks Simulation Premium offers analysts an expanded selection of analysis tools for simulating nonlinear, dynamic and composite materials. With SolidWorks Simulation Premium, you can design better products and improve product reliability in any environment.

Any engineer can easily apply SolidWorks Simulation Premium to perform sophisticated design 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

SolidWorks Flow Simulation is the first and easiest fluid-flow simulation and thermal analysis program for designers to conduct tests on virtual prototypes, shortening time-to-market and reducing resource requirements.

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 analyze the effects of fluid flow, heat transfer, and related forces on immersed or surrounding components. Using SolidWorks Flow Simulation early in the product development cycle can help you build a better product with superior performance. Fluids of interest for analysis range from air, water, liquid chemicals, and gases to juice, ice cream, honey, plastic melts, toothpaste, blood, and others.

Addtional Flow Simulation Capablities:

• External flow analysis of liquids and gases around solid bodies (i.e., air flow over an airplane wing or
• water flow around a submarine).
• Turbulent flow analysis using the K-E model to illustrate flow domain turbulence (i.e., gases from an aircraft engine nozzle).
• Real gas simulation for accurately solving high-pressure or low-temperature gas applications.
• Compressible flow analysis for gas flows in subsonic, transonic, and supersonic speed zones.
• Calculation of pressure drop on pipes using surface roughness values.
• Design optimization using CFD-based flow and dimensional parameters.
• Flow analysis of non-Newtonian fluids (i.e., blood, toothpaste, and plastic melts).
• Moving wall flow analysis for studying flows relative to a moving reference frame.
• Cavitation analysis for identifying areas in a model where cavitation will occur.
• Humidity analysis for calculating relative humidity inside enclosures for climate control applications.

SolidWorks SimulationXpress

SolidWorks SimulationXpress is the first analysis tool for testing part designs rapidly and easily within 3D CAD design software.

SolidWorks SimulationXpress is provides you the ability to do basic stress analysis on individual parts. You can determine effects of force and pressure, and generate reports to document results rapidly. When you need additional functionality, it is easy to upgrade to advanced SolidWorks Simulation packages.