SolidWorks Products: SolidWorks Simulation Consulting Services

Hawk Ridge Systems offers a range of analysis consulting services to help you get the best out of the analysis tools within SolidWorks.

Our popular mentoring service provides customized assistance to help you learn how to conduct analysis on your designs by providing detailed coaching to help you through your first projects with the SolidWorks Simulation tools. As a complement to classroom based training, we’ll help you through understanding the assumptions, procedures, and techniques associated with analysis in SolidWorks, and show you how to apply them to your exact situation by working through projects together.

We also offer consulting services to complete analysis tasks for you.

Our highly-skilled analysis team is certified in the use of the SolidWorks analysis tools, and also has extensive engineering and product design experience.

Contact us for more information or to have us assess your project and provide a quote.

Datasheets

Datasheet: SolidWorks Simulation 2011 SolidWorks Simulation is a complete suite of structural, functional, and flow analysis applications for every designer in the product development process. The software is easy to use, yet powerful enough to tackle the most complex design issues. It helps you to predict the performance of your design under real-world operating conditions and to detect problems and correct them before prototyping, tooling, and production.

White Papers

	White Paper: Streamlining Design with Real-World Vibration Analysis Mechanical designers often use vibration simulation as a timesaving and cost-efficient alternative to the traditional approach of building, testing, modifying, and retesting their designs. By identifying the factors that influence the response to a dynamic load in a computer model, designers have the data needed to make the right improvements before they even cut a single piece of metal. In addition to greatly decreasing the number of actual prototypes required, vibration analysis also significantly reduces the costs involved.
	White Paper: Solve Complex Simulations to Enhance Product Performance Engineering successful, innovative products in today's competitive environment requires simulation power. The ability to analyze the multifaceted physical performance characteristics of a design before making a prototype can substantially increase productivity. Companies need robust simulation tools to efficiently overcome time, budget, and quality demands. SolidWorks® Simulation delivers powerful simulation capabilities that can solve complex analysis problems, helping you design better, more innovative products faster and more cost-effectively.
	White Paper: Design to Prevent Fatigue In 1954, two crashes involving the world's first commercial airliner, the de Havilland Comet, brought the words "metal fatigue" to newspaper headlines and into long-lasting public consciousness. The aircraft, also one of the first to have a pressurized cabin, had square windows. Pressurization combined with repeated flight loads caused cracks to form in the corners of the windows, and those cracks widened over time until the cabins fell apart. As well as being a human tragedy in which 68 people died, the Comet disasters were a wake-up call to engineers trying to create safe, strong designs.
	White Paper: Preventing Mechanical Fatigue Fatigue is the most common cause of catastrophic failure in metals and can occur in other materials as well. SolidWorks® software provides a fast, reliable, and cost-effective way to predict and resolve fatigue-related problems before they happen.
	White Paper: SolidWorks Software Optimization Optimization is the calculation of weight, stress, cost, deflection, natural frequencies, and temperature factors, which are dependent on variables such as dimensions, loads and restraints, materials, and manufacturing requirements. The challenge is that we seldom know these inputs at the early stages of the design process. This paper reviews some key concepts in optimization, tools now available for FEA-driven optimization, and then focuses on how design engineers can get the most out of optimization in their day-to-day work.