SolidWorks Simulation improves product quality by identifying areas that are prone to weakness and failure. Simulate real world conditions, test multiple ‘What If’ scenarios and optimize your designs easily from within SolidWorks 3D CAD Software. Using SolidWorks Simulation, you can lower costs by trimming excess material and minimizing the need for physical prototypes.
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Perform virtual testing and analysis of your SolidWorks parts and assemblies. SolidWorks Simulation Professional includes all design capabilities of SolidWorks Simulation, plus enhanced analysis functions, including design optimization, drop-test simulation and thermal, frequency, buckling and fatigue testing.

Study and Optimize Assemblies of All Sizes:

• Evaluate forces and stresses between contacting parts, including friction.
• Bond components with clearances or gaps, without modification.
• Apply bearing loads, forces, pressures and torques.
• Use connectors, or virtual fasteners, to model bolts, pins, springs and bearings.
• Mesh both parts and assemblies with custom meshing diagnostic tools, including mesh transitioning and local mesh controls.
• Converge to accurate solutions by letting SolidWorks automatically refine and/or coarsen the mesh as required.
  

Understand Effects of Temperature Changes on Parts and Assemblies:

• Study conduction, convection, and radiation heat transfer.
• Utilize isotropic, orthotropic, and temperature-dependent material properties.

Simulate Vibration or Buckling in your Designs:

• Examine how vibrating or unstable modes can shorten equipment life and case unexpected failures.
• Assess the effects of stiffening under external load on frequency or buckling response.

Optimize Critical Dimensions and Conceptual Design Features:

• Automatically optimize designs for minimum mass or volume as well as buckling and frequency goals.
• Investigate all SolidWorks dimensions in static, thermal frequency, or buckling analyses.
• Use Trend Tracker and Design Insight plots to drive optimal changes as you work.

Simulate Drop Tests Using Your Parts or Assemblies:

• Isolate the worst-case orientation to support physical testing.
• Observe the interactions between various parts in an assembly after impact.

Study the Effects of Cyclic Loading on Product Life:

• Check a system’s expected life or accumulated damage after a specified number of cycles.
• Import load history data from real physical tests to define loading events.

Investigate Pressure Vessel Code Compliance with Required Standards:

• Combine various structural and thermal loads as required by your application.
• Linearize stresses on any cross-section.

Solve challenging engineering problems with SolidWorks Simulation Premium software. Perform non-linear analysis on plastics, rubber, polymers and foam. Observe the behavior of composite materials and study design performance under dynamic loads. With SolidWorks Simulation Premium, you can design better products with confidence in any environment.

Capture the Effects of Large Displacements on Your Designs:

• Examine the impact of large deformations and changes to loads and restrains.
• Transition easily between linear and non-linear simulations.
• Study non-linear buckling and snap-through events.

Simulate Products Made with Non-Linear Materials:

• Optimize designs with hyper-elastic materials, such as rubbers, silicones and other elastomers.
• Conduct an elasto-plastic analysis to study the onset of yield as well as plastic deformation.
• Examine creep effects and material changes with temperature.

Perform Dynamic Analyses of Parts and Assemblies:

• Simulate time history loading, steady-state harmonic input and random vibration excitations.
• Use uniform and multibase motion systems to model structures with non-uniform support excitations.
• Input excitation curves of forces in random vibration analysis.
• Study stress, displacement velocity and acceleration with time, as well as RMS and PSD values for stress, displacement, velocity and acceleration.

Simulate Composite Materials:

• Utilize simulation to leverage these advanced materials used in an increasing number of products from consumer goods to advanced aerospace structures.
• Study multilayer shell bodies to examine how each layer has its own isotropic or orthotropic material properties, thickness and orientation.
• Use the revolutionary interface to dynamically control and display ply orientation directly on your SolidWorks model.
• Use sandwich and graphite or carbon-fiber composites, including honeycomb and cellular foam.