Products: SolidWorks Motion

The most popular virtual prototyping tool for SolidWorks, SolidWorks Motion (formerly COSMOSWorks Motion) lets you make sure your designs will work before you build them.

Included inside SolidWorks Premium, SolidWorks Motion is the standard virtual prototyping package for engineers and designers interested in understanding the performance of their assemblies.

SolidWorks Motion enables engineers to size motors/actuators, determine power consumption, layout linkages, develop cams, understand gear drives, size springs/dampers, and determine how contacting parts behave.

The result is a quantitative reduction in physical prototyping costs and reduced product development time. SolidWorks Motion also provides qualitative benefits such as the ability to consider more designs, risk reduction, and the availability of valuable information early in the design process.

SolidWorks Motion provides the following features and benefits:

• Leverage the power of SolidWorks:  Included as part of SolidWorks Premium, SolidWorks Motion uses existing SolidWorks assembly information to build motion simulation studies. For example SolidWorks Motion will automatically map SolidWorks mates to derive motion joint conditions.
• Transfer loads seamlessly into COSMOSWorks to perform stress analysis:  With the seamless transfer of loads from SolidWorks Motion to SolidWorks Simulation, you can visualize stress and displacements on a component at a single time instance or for the entire simulation cycle.
• Simulate real-world operating conditions:  By combining physics-based motion with assembly information from SolidWorks, SolidWorks Motion can be used in a broad span of industry application like estimating peak motor torque, understanding robotics performance during operation, optimize or minimize the force imbalances in rotating systems, etc.
• Associate physics-based models to engineering conditions:  SolidWorks Motion offers several types of joint and force options to represent real-life operating conditions such as compound joints like hinge, screw, universal, input functions like step and harmonic, linear and non-linear springs, forces, moments, 2D and 3D contact to capture interaction between parts, etc.
• Interpret results with powerful and intuitive visualization tools:  Once you have completed the motion simulation run, SolidWorks Motion offers a variety of results visualization tools in the form of XY plots or numerical data of displacements, velocities, accelerations, force vectors at joint locations, displaying a trace on any point of the body during the entire simulation, check for colliding parts while the assembly moves, etc. 
• Collaborate and share analysis results:  SolidWorks Motion makes it easy to collaborate and share analysis results effectively with everyone involved in the product development process by creating animation files in AVI format, excel sheets of the numerical data in any co-ordinate system, result graphs in different reference frames etc.

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