Do you know, if you are a SOLIDWORKS user you are entitle for 4 different yet useful free SOLIDWORKS Xpress tools to enhance your product development process?

Each of these tools can have a place in your product development processes, if you take advantage of them. Briefly, their capabilities are as follows; SimulationXpress provides part-only Finite Element Analysis, FloXpress provides internal flow Computational Fluid Dynamics and DriveWorksXpress is a powerful design automation tool, and DFMXpress is a validation tool for manufacturing process.

Here are the 4 products that you are entitled for:

SOLIDWORKS SimulationXpress offers an easy-to-use first pass stress analysis tool for SOLIDWORKS users. SimulationXpress can help you reduce cost and time-to-market by testing your designs on the computer instead of expensive and time-consuming field tests.

For example, you might want to examine the effects of a force applied to the faucet. SimulationXpress simulates the design cycle and provides stress results. It also shows critical areas and safety levels at various regions in the faucet. Based on these results, you can strengthen unsafe regions and remove material from overdesigned ones.

SimulationXpress uses the same simulation technology that SOLIDWORKS Simulation uses to perform stress analysis. More advanced simulation capabilities are available within the SOLIDWORKS Simulation line of products.

The wizard interface of SimulationXpress uses elements of the full Simulation interface to guide you through a step-by-step process to specify fixtures, loads, material, run the simulation, and view the results.

For SimulationXpress tutorial you may click here.

DFMXpress validates design for manufacturability for parts.

Validation includes Milling/Drilling, Turn with Mill Drill, Sheet Metal, Injection Molding manufacturing process. It allows you to create rule parameters to help you in validating your design. It is a free module before you move on to more advance version of DFMPro version.

More tutorial on DRMXpress can be found here.

DriveWorksXpress provides entry-level Design Automation. It is ideal for everyday repetitive design tasks and can be used to create multiple variations of SOLIDWORKS Parts, Assemblies and Drawings quickly and accurately. These tasks follow a set of rules (defined by the user) that are saved in a rules-based project you set up once and run again and again.

More DriveWorksXpress tutorial can be found here.