SolidWorks Simulation Professional

SolidWorks Simulation Professional is a powerful analysis tool that allow you to assess many of the common modes of failure and perform virtual testing on your products and designs. With SolidWorks Simulation Professional you can analyze whether failure will occur through overstress/material yield, fatigue, excessive vibration, buckling, thermal effects, and drop testing. It also includes powerful tools for optimizing and improving part designs in order to meet design goals as efficiently and cost-effectively as possible.

Regardless of industry application, from aerospace to medical, SolidWorks Simulation Professional provides significant product quality benefits; enabling engineers to detect design problems in less time than a prototype could be built.

With SolidWorks Simulation Professional, 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
Solve extensive thermal simulation problems
Perform coupled thermal and structural analysis
Determine failure due to fatigue from cyclic loading on your designs

Simulation Static Stress Analysis

Static stress analysis enables you to see how your model responds to loading, and how much stress and deformation occurs within the model. This allows you to evaluate how real-life design conditions are going to affect the performance and durability of your products within the SolidWorks environment.
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Thermal analysis

Thermal analysis will allow you to evaluate how thermal energy flows through your model via conduction, convection and radiation, and allows you to make predictions of the steady state and transient thermal performance of your products. Evaluation of how thermal stress might contribute to model failure is also available. This allows you to adjust your design to prevent any potentially dangerous or damaging over-temperature conditions, or to tune your products design to meet appropriate thermal design requirements.
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Static Stress Analysis
Kinematic Motion (Time-Based)
Kinematic Motion (Event-Based)
Trend Tracker
Optimization
Thermal Analysis
Fatigue Analysis
Buckling Analysis
Frequency Analysis
Drop Test Analysis
Pressure Vessel Analysis
Nonlinear Analysis
Composite Material Analysis
Dynamic Analysis
Random Vibration Analysis
Internal/External Flow Analysis
Heat Transfer/Cooling
Rotating Machinery

SolidWorks Simulation Product Tour
The Art of Meshing in SolidWorks Simulation
Frequency Analysis in SolidWorks Simulation Professional

Datasheets

	Datasheet: SolidWorks Simulation 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.

SolidWorks Simulation (2 Days): This course is designed to make SolidWorks users more productive quickly with SolidWorks Simulation. It offers a comprehensive hands-on training on the applications of linear stress analysis using SolidWorks Simulation, and best practices. Analysis features are discussed using an integrated approach of the Simulation software from within the SolidWorks environment.
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SolidWorks Simulation Professional (1 Day): This course is designed to make SolidWorks users more productive quickly with the analysis features included in SolidWorks Simulation Professional. You will explore thermal analysis, natural frequency analysis, optimization, fatigue and drop tests.
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SolidWorks Motion (1 Day): This class is designed for users who would like to become productive quickly in using SolidWorks Motion. This course will teach you how to use the simulation package to study the kinematics and dynamic behavior of SolidWorks assembly models. The course provides both essential and advanced sessions on the basics of building, simulating and refining a mechanical design system.
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SolidWorks Simulation Professional