SOLIDWORKS SIMULATION

GET ENGINEERING INSIGHTS WITH VIRTUAL SIMULATION

SOPHISTICATED Concurrent Engineering for more informed design

SOLIDWORKS® Simulation gives product engineers access to powerful FEA
SIMULATION IS (Finite Element Analysis) capabilities that help enable them to speed up
NO LONGER JUST product innovation. Leveraging the familiar SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD environment, this
FOR SPECIALISTS extensive technology isn’t just about making sure your product works, it’s about
understanding how your product will behave in the real world.
“The advantage of SOLIDWORKS Simulation is that you don’t have to transfer information
back and forth between applications. SOLIDWORKS Simulation provides a much more
cost-effective means for conducting analysis.”
— Caleb Fulks, Project Engineer, Diversified Product Development

SOLIDWORKS SIMULATION HELPS PRODUCT

ENGINEERS ASK—AND ANSWER—COMPLEX AND
IMPORTANT ENGINEERING QUESTIONS EARLIER
With SOLIDWORKS Simulation, you can reduce the risk involved
in exploring new and innovative design solutions and help
get products to market faster—and with less prototyping.
By understanding product performance early in the design
process, you avoid costly over-design and reduce the risk of
warranty issues.
This powerful set of structural simulation tools is fully integrated
within the SOLIDWORKS environment, with seamless operation
for designers and simulation experts alike at every stage of
product development. Through powerful results visualization
you can study the forces affecting your design—displaying
stresses, displacement, life time, and temperature. You can
calculate measurements for any point, surface, or volume, and
then graph and list results for all types of simulations.
SOLIDWORKS Simulation provides a complete range of tools for
analyzing the structure with FEA, motion, and multi-physics
for your parts and assemblies. As part of the SOLIDWORKS
suite of 3D product development solutions—covering design,
simulation, technical communication, and data management—
SOLIDWORKS Simulation is powerful, accurate, and intuitive,
enabling all product engineers to tackle the most complex
engineering challenges.
Simulation-driven product development takes 3D design to
another level so you can predict the performance of your
product under real-world operating conditions to innovate,
detect potential issues, and correct them before prototyping,
tooling, and production.

“With SOLIDWORKS Simulation, I can identify and resolve potential issues during design,
so that when we mold those initial pieces, they are right the first time.
It’s an incredible tool that has let us save 30 to 60 percent in capital costs in the
development of new products.”
— Todd Turner, Senior Product Development Engineer, Macro Plastics, Inc.,
SOLIDWORKS SIMULATION STANDARD
PERFORM STRUCTURAL TESTING OF PARTS AND ASSEMBLIES
FOR PRODUCT INNOVATION

SOLIDWORKS Simulation Standard gives you an intuitive virtual testing

environment for linear static, time-based motion, and fatigue simulation,
so you can answer common engineering challenges with a SOLIDWORKS
3D CAD embedded solution
Verify your design with powerful linear static analysis
• Test products made of weldments, sheet metal, and volume geometry with mixed mesh
Drive your design with intuitive • Evaluate strain and stresses between contacting parts, including friction
• Apply bearing loads, forces, pressures, and torques
simulation tools to improve
• Improve designs based on structural, motion, or geometric criteria
product performance. • Use connectors or virtual fasteners to model bolts, pins, springs, and bearings, and dimension
them under applied loads
• Activate the Trend Tracker and Design Insight plots to highlight optimal design changes
while you work
• Intuitively manage your shell model with the Shell Manager
Evaluate your product performance throughout its operational cycle with motion analysis
• Define motion studies with time-based approach for rigid body kinematic and dynamic
problems
• Leverage SOLIDWORKS assembly mates along with part properties for motion analysis
• Evaluate characteristics like actuator force and joint loads for motion optimization
Evaluate how your product will • Gain greater control of model actuators with servomotors
perform and move throughout its Study the effects of cyclic loading on product life
operational cycle with time-
• Check a system’s expected life or accumulated damage after a specified number of cycles
based motion simulation • Import load history data from real physical tests to define loading events

Estimate component life based

on calculated loads with fatigue
simulation.

“With SOLIDWORKS Simulation tools, we can identify areas of high stress and potential
failure before we cut metal, which allows us to improve design performance quickly
and inexpensively.”
— DJ Paulson, Co-Owner Straitline Precision
SOLIDWORKS SIMULATION PROFESSIONAL
INCREASE PRODUCT SUCCESS WITH POWERFUL
AND INTUITIVE 3D VIRTUAL TESTING

SOLIDWORKS Simulation Professional adds to SOLIDWORKS Simulation Standard

more powerful and sophisticated simulation capabilities, to help you answer
engineering challenges with complex load scenarios and multi-physics solutions
Test your design with extensive structural analysis
• Optimize designs based on structural, motion, or geometric criteria
• Have your CAD toolbox fasteners translated automatically into connectors for fast and accurate
assembly analysis
• Combine load cases and test structural performance for multiple load combinations with
the Load Case Manager
• Analyze how dropping a product will affect its structural integrity
Solve complex simulations to • Assess large assembly behavior focusing on critical zones with submodelling
enhance product quality and • Evaluate complex problems early in the design cycle with plane stress, plane strain,
performance. and axisymmetric linear static analysis
• Access an extensive materials database with metal properties and fatigue curves
Understand the effects of temperature on your design
• Study conduction, convection, and radiation heat transfer
• Utilize isotropic, orthotropic, and temperature-dependent material properties
• Determine the combined stresses and deformations due to structural and thermal loads
Analyze assembly motion for process and task workflow with event–based simulation
• Define motion studies based on model event and assembly actions
• Trigger actions through new motion sensors, time, or the completion of a previous task
• Evaluate characteristics like actuator force and joint loads for motion optimization
Determine the structural impact • Gain greater control of model actuators with servomotors
of thermal loads on your design. Simulate frequency or buckling in your designs
• Examine how vibrating or unstable modes can shorten equipment life and cause
unexpected failures
• Assess the effects of load stiffening on frequency and buckling response

Virtually prototype the most

challenging machines with
event-based motion simulation.

“With SOLIDWORKS Simulation software, we eliminated more than two years of costs,
saved $100,000 on prototyping, and produced a patented idea for enhancing heat
transfer. That’s the kind of advantage that helps us beat our competition.”
— Craig Tiras, P.E. Vice President of Engineering and Design, Gaumer Process
SOLIDWORKS SIMULATION PREMIUM
GET A DEEPER VIEW OF YOUR DESIGN PERFORMANCE
WITH AN EXTENSIVE SIMULATION SOLUTION

SOLIDWORKS Simulation Premium includes all of the capabilities of SOLIDWORKS

Simulation Professional, plus additional features like composite materials and
powerful analysis tools for simulating nonlinear and dynamic response
Analyze your design in the nonlinear world
• Easily transition between linear and nonlinear simulations for comprehensive evaluation
• Examine deformations caused by overloads, contact (including self-contact),
and flexible materials
Study nonlinear problems that
• Determine residual stresses and permanent deformations in metals after material yield
involve large displacement and • Study nonlinear buckling and snap-through events
complex material models. • Investigate designs with hyperelastic materials, such as rubbers, silicones and other elastomers
• Conduct an elasto-plastic analysis to study plastic deformation and the onset of yield
• Examine creep effects and material changes with temperature
• Test the performance of your molded plastic part taking into account in-mold residual stresses
and temperature with SOLIDWORKS Plastics
Perform dynamic analyses of parts and assemblies
• Simulate time history, steady-state harmonic, response spectrum, and random
vibration excitations
• Study stress, displacement, velocity, and acceleration variations with time, as well as RMS
and PSD values
• Carry out impact analysis using nonlinear dynamic capabilities
Plot product response versus • Determine the durability of a product submitted to vibrations with fatigue analysis
dynamic loads.
Simulate composite materials
• Study multilayer composite components to examine the effects of layer material, thickness,
and orientation on product performance
• Use the revolutionary user interface to dynamically control and display ply orientation
• Determine the correct composite lay-up and orientation for operational loads
Easily tackle complex problems with Cyclic Symmetry and 2D planar simplification tools
• Create plane stress, plane strain, axisymmetric, and cyclic symmetry nonlinear analysis
• Solve complex contact problems in a fraction of the time with no loss of accuracy
• Use 3D CAD models without modification to generate 2D sections for analysis
Validate the performance of
composite materials, including
stiffness and ply failure results.

Study a whole class of nonlinear

problems quickly and easily with
the 2D planar simplification tool.
 system requirements

• Windows 7 (preferably x64) or Windows 8

• 2 GB RAM minimum (8 to 16 GB RAM recommended)
SOLIDWORKS Product Development Solution • 50 GB disk space free (minimum)
SOLIDWORKS software provides users with an intuitive • SOLIDWORKS-Certified graphics card
3D development environment that helps maximize the
productivity of your design and engineering resources to • Intel® or AMD® processor (4 to 8 cores recommended)
create better products faster and more cost-effectively. • Broadband Internet connection
See the full range of SOLIDWORKS software for design, • Microsoft® Excel® and Word (for reporting and
simulation, technical communication, and data management at exporting)
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