Overview

SOLIDWORKS Simulation Professional allows Product Engineers to evaluate structural product performance under a wide range of physical scenarios efficiently with it’s powerful virtual testing environment. Fully embedded with SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD, Simulation Professional enables engineers to determine product mechanical resistance, product durability, natural frequencies, and test heat transfer and buckling instabilities. Pressure vessel analysis and complex loading is also supported. You can optimize products for weight, vibration, or instability based on a range of physical and geometrical parameters. With tight integration and a consistent user interface across SOLIDWORKS solutions, you can use these powerful capabilities early in the design process to maximize product quality and reduce costs.

SOLIDWORKS Simulation Professional Include

Overview

Included in SOLIDWORKS Premium 2019, SOLIDWORKS Simulation Standard gives product engineers an intuitive virtual testing environment for static linear, time-based motion, and high-cycle fatigue simulation, so they can answer common engineering challenges with this SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD embedded solution. The Trend Tracker capability and Design Insight plot enable designers to highlight optimal design changes while they work. Built on a concurrent engineering approach, Simulation Standard helps engineers know if their product will perform properly and how long it will last.

SOLIDWORKS Simulation Standard Include

SOLIDWORKS Simulation Product Matrix Comparison

	SOLIDWORKS Simulation Standard	SOLIDWORKS SIMULATION Professional	SOLIDWORKS SIMULATION Premium
Ease of Use SOLIDWORKS Simulation is fully embedded in SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD for ease of use and data integrity. Using the same user interface (UI) paradigms as SOLIDWORKS with toolbars, menus, and context-sensitive right-click menus, ensures rapid familiarization. Built-in tutorials and searchable online help aid learning and troubleshooting.
Design Data Reuse SOLIDWORKS Simulation supports SOLIDWORKS materials and configurations for easy analysis of multiple loads and product configurations.
Static Studies Solve part and assembly structural analysis problems for stress, strain, displacements, and Factors of Safety (FOS). Problems are limited to static loading, elastic linear materials, and small contact displacements. For the solution to be valid, the resulting deformed shape after loading must exhibit small displacements and rotations. Premium only: Static studies are extended to incorporate components built up by composites materials. Component setup includes ply orientation and sandwich definition. Results include ply failure index as well as stress and deflections.
Fatigue Studies Estimate components fatigue life under high-cycle varying loads where the peak stress is below the material yield stress. Cumulative damage theory is used to predict locations and cycles to failure.
Motion Analysis Use a time-based, rigid body kinematic and dynamic motion tool to calculate the velocities, accelerations, and movements of an assembly under operational loads. The motion analysis tool calculates component body and connection loads that can be imported into a Static Study. Professional and Premium only: Use an event-based rigid body kinematic and dynamic motion tool to calculate the velocities, accelerations, and movements of an assembly under operational loads where actions and movements are triggered by the location or movement of components. The motion analysis tool calculates component body and connection loads that can be imported into a Static Study.
Design Studies A design study is used to perform wide-ranging “what if” analyses. In a design study, both the parameters of a design (model) and simulation setup (materials, loadings, and fixtures) can be varied to assess the impact of change on the model.
FEA Modelling SOLIDWORKS Simulation includes solid, shell, and beam modeling using h- and p-adaptive element types with mesh control and failure diagnostics. A customizable material library is included with simulation data: – Parallel computing (multi-core) – Batch Run Professional and Premium only: – 2D Simplification – Plane Stress and Strain – Axisymmetric – Sub-modelling Simulation – Sub-Modelling: Analyze the structural resistance of a sub model from a main assembly Premium only: – Off-loading computing
Loads and Restraints – Fixtures to prescribe zero or non-zero displacements – Force, pressure, and remote structural loads – Temperature loading – Import Flow/Thermal Loads – Load Case Manager: evaluate the effects of various load combinations on your model. (Available on Professional and Premium packages only)
Assembly Connectivity – Component contact – Bonded contact condition – Node-to-node, surface-to-surface contact condition – Shrink Fit condition – Virtual  Wall condition – Self-contact – Connectors: bolt, spring, pin, elastic support, and bearing – Connectors Safety Check Professional and Premium only: – Edge Weld – Thermal contact resistance condition – Insulated condition – Edge and spot weld connector
Results Study results are dependent upon the type of study but are displayed as Contour, Iso-Surface, Surface, and Section plots. Quantity point and line distribution given by the probe tool. The Design Insight plot shows loaded material. FEA results can be compared to test data. Deformed shape results can be animated and the animation saved. Overlay Simulation results onto SOLIDWORKS graphics. SOLIDWORKS Simulation results can be communicated to non-SOLIDWORKS users via eDrawings®, a shareable 3D file format.
Help and Support In-product tutorials, online help, and knowledge base.
Communication Customizable simulation report eDrawings of Simulation results
Thermal Analysis Solve steady-state and transient part and assembly thermal problems for temperature, temperature gradient, and heat flux. With the Thermal Analysis completed, you can import temperature loads into a Static Study.
Frequency Studies Frequency Studies determine a product’s natural modes of vibration which is important for products that experience vibration in their working environment.
Buckling Studies A possible failure mode for long and slender components is by collapse at a load below material yield stress. The buckling study predicts the components buckling load factor.
Pressure Vessel Studies Linearized stress, a key for safe pressure design, is calculated in the Pressure Vessel Study.
Topology Studies Enables you to discover new minimal material design alternatives under linear elastic static loading while still meeting component stress, stiffness and vibrational requirements.
Linear Dynamic Studies Builds upon the Frequency Study to calculate the stresses due to forcing vibrations and calculating the effects of dynamic loads, impact or shock loading, for linear elastic materials. Study types are: – Modal Time History Analysis – Harmonic Analysis – Random Vibration Analysis – Response Sepctrum Analysis
Non-Linear Analysis Non-Linear Analysis lets you analyze complex material behavior, such as post-yield metals, rubbers, and plastics, as well as to account for large deflections and sliding contact-in components. Non-Linear Static Study assumes static loads with loads can be sequenced so that the dynamic effects of the varying load do not affect the study. The complex material models in Non-Linear Static Studies can be used to calculate permanent deformation and residual stresses due to excessive loads, as well as predicting performance for components, such as springs and clip fasteners. Non-Linear Dynamic Study accounts for the effect of real-time varying loads that are included in calculations and results. In addition to solving non-linear static problems, Non-Linear Dynamic Studies can also solve impact problems.