{"id":3959,"date":"2016-01-05T09:13:20","date_gmt":"2016-01-05T09:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3959"},"modified":"2016-01-05T09:13:20","modified_gmt":"2016-01-05T09:13:20","slug":"learn-whats-new-for-structural-simulation-in-solidworks-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/01\/learn-whats-new-for-structural-simulation-in-solidworks-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Learn What\u2019s New for Structural Simulation in SOLIDWORKS 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SOLIDWORKS Simulation 2016 delivers enhanced power performance and accuracy to our users while adhering to the SOLIDWORKS mantra of ease of use.\u00a0 This year we have returned to the fundamental foundations of finite element analysis, the mesh. Put simply good mesh good results, but for solving efficiency you want the elements where you need them and not everywhere. SOLIDWORKS Simulation 2016 features an alternate blended curvature-based mesher, which enables you to get a better quality mesh with less number of elements, so the computation time is reduced while the accuracy of the results is preserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"colorbox-27985\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/12\/mesh2016.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A good mesh will put the elements in the regions of geometry change as they tend to be stress concentrators. The new mesh sectioning tool, allows you to view the mesh distribution through the model thickness, enabling you to check the quality of the internal mesh and make any adjustments to mesh settings required before running the study.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"colorbox-27985\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/12\/mesh2016a.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One of the more challenging aspects of carrying out any kind of analysis is setting the correct loads, constraints and contact conditions. The larger the bigger the headache, but there is no need to panic anymore! With SOLIDWORKS Simulation 2016 you can now detect unconstrained bodies automatically, making the investigation of contacts and boundary conditions of bodies a breeze. The new unconstrained bodies plot enables you to view animations of the model based on the active degrees of freedom, and identify bodies that are under constrained before you run a simulation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"thumbnail wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" colorbox-27985\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/12\/mesh2016b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"357\" height=\"293\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Unconstrained Component Detected<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"thumbnail wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"colorbox-27985\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/12\/mesh2016c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"369\" height=\"255\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">The Component Movies Along the Unconstrained Direction<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Those are few of the new capabilities that you can find in SOLIDWORKS Simulation 2016. Try these new capabilities today and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.solidworks.com\/launch\/#12498\" target=\"_blank\">go to the SOLIDWORKS 2016 launch website to learn more<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Originally posted in the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2015\/12\/learn-whats-new-structural-simulation-solidworks-2016.html\" target=\"_blank\">SOLIDWORKS Blog<\/a> by Nicolas Tillet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SOLIDWORKS Simulation 2016 delivers enhanced power performance and accuracy to our users while adhering to the SOLIDWORKS mantra of ease of use.\u00a0 This year we have returned to the fundamental&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[25,113],"class_list":["post-3959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solidworks","category-solidworks-simulation","tag-solidworks-2","tag-solidworks-simulation"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3959"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3963,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3959\/revisions\/3963"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}