Simulation Solutions
Simulation solutions for SOLIDWORKS® provide an easy-to-use portfolio of analysis tools for predicting a product’s real-world physical behavior by virtually testing CAD models.
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Efficiently evaluate performance, improve quality, and boost product innovation with the powerful and comprehensive suite of SOLIDWORKS Simulation packages. You can set up virtual real-world environments to test your product designs before manufacture. Test against a broad range of parameters during the design process, such as durability, static and dynamic response, motion of assembly, heat transfer, fluid dynamics, and plastics injection molding.
Simulation solutions for SOLIDWORKS provide an easy-to-use portfolio of analysis tools for predicting a product’s real-world physical behavior by virtually testing CAD models.
SOLIDWORKS Simulation Standard
SOLIDWORKS Simulation Standard is an intuitive virtual testing environment for static linear, time-based motion, and high-cycle fatigue simulation. It delivers a concurrent engineering approach, helping you know if your product will perform properly and how long it will last—during the design phase.
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SOLIDWORKS Simulation Professional
SOLIDWORKS Simulation Professional enables you to optimize your design, determine product mechanical resistance, product durability, topology, natural frequencies, and test heat transfer and buckling instabilities. It can also perform sequential multi-physics simulations.
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SOLIDWORKS Simulation Premium
SOLIDWORKS Simulation Premium lets you efficiently evaluate your designs for nonlinear and dynamic response, dynamic loading, and composite materials. SOLIDWORKS Simulation Premium includes three advanced studies: Non-Linear Static, Non-Linear Dynamic, and Linear Dynamics.
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SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation
SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation is a general parametric flow simulation tool that uses the Finite Volume Method (FVM) to calculate product performance through “what if” studies that allow you to perform optimization using the results.
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SOLIDWORKS Plastics
Predict and avoid manufacturing defects during the earliest stages of plastics part and injection mold design using SOLIDWORKS Plastics simulation software. Companies that design plastic parts or molds can improve quality, eliminate costly mold rework, and decrease time-to-market.
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SOLIDWORKS Sustainability
Measure the environmental impacts of designs across the product life cycle—including the effects of materials, manufacturing, assembly, transportation, product use, and disposal.
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Why Choose SOLIDWORKS Simulation?
SOLIDWORKS® Simulation is an easy-to-use portfolio of structural analysis tools that use the Finite Element Analysis (FEA) method to predict a product’s real-world physical behavior by virtually testing CAD models. The portfolio provides linear, non-linear static and dynamic analysis capabilities.
Why Choose SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation?
SOLIDWORKS® Flow Simulation is an intuitive Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) solution embedded within SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD that enables you to quickly and easily simulate liquid and gas flows through and around your designs to calculate product performance and capabilities.
Why choose SOLIDWORKS Plastics?
SOLIDWORKS® Plastics delivers easy-to-use simulation for analyzing plastic parts and injection molds. It simulates how melted plastic flows during the injection molding process to predict manufacturing-related defects so you can quickly evaluate part manufacturability while you design.
Why Choose SOLIDWORKS Sustainability?
Ensure optimal sustainability with assessment results that are saved for each design configuration to easily compare versions. Assembly Visualization ranks the impact of your assembly’s parts to reassess the design’s sustainability. Seamless integration and automatic report generation lets you communicate your solution.
Benefits
- Evaluates the performance of multiple variables at a rapidpace.
- Reduces time-to-market by quickly determining optimal design solutions.
- Predicts product performance, Factor of Safety (FOS), and fatigue capabilities early-on in the process.
- Reduces materials cost. SOLIDWORKS Simulation enables design teams to safely remove unnecessary material.
- By virtually testing and refining your designs first, the costly testing and certification process is streamlined reducing your time-to-market.
Advantages of SOLIDWORKS Simulation
SOLIDWORKS simulation suite ensures the quality and performance of your design before you commit to production. Comprehensive analysis tools let you test models digitally for valuable technical insight early in the design process. With the information you obtain, you can easily determine methods to reduce weight and material costs, improve durability and manufacturability, optimize margins, and compare design alternatives to best meet specific customer requirements.
