SolidWorks Simulation Premium

SolidWorks Simulation Premium allows you to perform high-end nonlinear, dynamic and composite material analysis in the easy-to-use SolidWorks Simulation interface. Complex material and structural behavior can be analyzed to simulate and predict performance under dynamic or nonlinear loading conditions.

One of the most comprehensive and sophisticated analysis packages available, SolidWorks Simulation Premium provides a tremendous range of design validation capabilities at a fraction of the cost of most high-end finite element analysis (FEA) programs.

SolidWorks Simulation Premium includes access to the full range of finite-element analysis available for SolidWorks, and allows the user to analyze the complex behavior of plastic and rubber components and other nonlinear components.

It also provides access to dynamic analysis modules, providing a cost-effective alternative to shaker table, vibration, shock, transport, random vibration and seismic testing inside the SolidWorks window

With SolidWorks Simulation Premium, you can:

• Compare alternative designs easily and quickly so you can choose the optimal design for final production
• Study interaction between different assembly components
• Simulate real-world operating conditions to see how your model handles stress, strain and displacement
• Spend less time on specifics with automated tools that simplify the validation process
• Interpret results with powerful and intuitive visualization tools
• Collaborate and share results with everyone involved in the product development process
• Determine how moving and contacting parts behave within an assembly
• Perform drop test analysis
• Optimize your model to meet pre-specified design criteria
• Determine if your design will fail due to buckling or vibration
• Reduce the costs and time delays caused by physical prototyping
• Identify potential design flaws and correct them earlier in the design process
• Solve extensive thermal simulation problems
• Perform coupled thermal and structural analysis
• Determine failure due to fatigue from cyclic loading on your designs
• Perform nonlinear analysis on plastics, rubbers, polymers, and foam
• Conduct contact analysis coupled with nonlinear materials
• Study the performance of your design under dynamic loads
• See the behavior of composite materials

Datasheets

Datasheet: SolidWorks Simulation 2012 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.