SOLIDWORKS Simulation is an easy-to-use portfolio of structural analysis tools that use the Finite Element Analysis (FEA) method to predict a product’s real-world physical behavior by virtually testing CAD models.
These tools offers powerful, intuitive and accurate 3D engineering experience for students. The robust simulation capabilities allow students to improve product performance and quality by indicating how product designs will behave before they are built.
Users can test design performance under a wide range of physical scenarios using the powerful virtual testing environment of SOLIDWORKS Simulation. Fully embedded with SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD, SOLIDWORKS Simulation enables engineers to determine product mechanical resistance, product durability, natural frequencies, and test heat transfer and buckling instabilities.
There are three types of licenses for SOLIDWORKS Simulation — Standard, Professional and Premium.
SOLIDWORKS Simulation Standard is an intuitive virtual testing environment for static linear, time-based motion, and high-cycle fatigue simulation. It delivers a concurrent engineering approach, helping you know if your product will perform properly and how long it will last—during the design phase. It includes valuable functionalities to help students determine early in the design process if their products will work and how long they will perform, including:
- Linear static analysis for assembly
- Time-based motion simulation
- Fatigue analysis (to test product durability)
- The Trend Tracker Productivity Tool (provides visual feedback on the impact of a design change on performance criteria such as maximum stress level)
SOLIDWORKS Simulation Premium lets you efficiently evaluate your designs for nonlinear and dynamic response, dynamic loading, and composite materials. SOLIDWORKS Simulation Premium includes three advanced studies: Non-Linear Static, Non-Linear Dynamic, and Linear Dynamics.
SOLIDWORKS Simulation Professional gives students who are running linear static studies will not only gain the ability to analyze for five additional mechanical failure modes – Natural frequency, Buckling, Thermal, Fatigue & Drop Test. You can perform sequential multi-physics simulations and you get assembly productivity tools, like Optimization, Connectors, and 2D Simplification. These give you better results with a faster and easier setup, saving you time.
All industries are using SOLIDWORKS Simulation, including manufacturing, aerospace, engineering, medical, automotive, and more. For example, Solar Ship Inc. used SOLIDWORKS Simulation to accelerate development of the first piloted hybrid airplane/airship that meets governmental safety requirements for commercial use to transport people and freight to remote locations.
You can learn all about the SOLIDWORKS Simulation product suite, tour the user interface, learn how to test assemblies and thin structures, and more here.
You can also start your free trial of SOLIDWORKS Simulation here.
