Provides stress, strain and displacement analysis directly on the SolidWorks parts and assemblies.

What does this do for you?

· Increase the confidence of your design team by giving them tools to test their ideas prior to fabrication.

· Reduce material costs by reducing the "when in doubt add more steel" approach to design.

Predict and control your product’s natural modes of vibration to avoid damaging resonant frequencies.  Includes analysis to determine maximum loads before buckling.

What does this do for you?

· Confirm that design changes do not produce critical failures not easily perceived with static analysis.

· Ensures the effectiveness of stiffening critical structures under external loads regarding both buckling and frequency response.

Study the effects heat will have on your design.  Simulates the thermal boundary conditions, fluid flow, thermal-structural interaction and radiation effects in high-temperature applications.

What does this do for you?

· Analyze how temperature changes the stresses and strains that affect your model.

· Study how long your design requires to heat up or to cool down.

Predict how well a part or assembly will withstand the rigors of daily operation and estimate the life cycle of your
products.

What does this do for you?

· Provides the ability to seek out weaknesses of your product over the long haul.

· Analyze how material selections and design choices will impact warranty costs.

Set multiple variables such as material weight and required factor of safety, then let Optimization iterate variations on your design until the design meets your goals.

What does this do for you?

· Significantly reduces engineering time by allowing the computer to zero in on the best design.

· Quickly produces a design that is lighter, smaller, cheaper without compromising strength or performance.

Investigate pressure vessel code compliance with required standards.

What does this do for you?
· Verify your pressure vessel design meets ASME standards.

· Reduce material costs by ensuring an efficient and properly engineered design.

Define drop height, surface and orientation.  Perform realistic collision simulation between parts or assemblies. 

What does this do for you?

· Save time and cost by reducing the number of physical tests.

· You know your design works, now determine if it will handle the rigors of getting to the job site.

Apply a wide variety of physics-based models to simulate real-world operating conditions for your design.

What does this do for you?

· Analyze designs throughout their range of motion, during start-up, throughout their cycle, etc..

· Provides velocity, acceleration, forces generated and motion path studies to validate loading estimates.

· Integrate the results of these motion studies to determine the loads for the rest of the analysis.

Thoroughly test and validate your designs with a broad range of advanced capabilities using nonlinear materials.

What does this do for you?

· Effectively analyze non-linear materials such as elastomers, rubbers and silicone.

· Validate designs even dealing with large deformation and changes to load placement and orientation.

· Analyze results of loads that extend materials past yield point.

Analyze whether your design's natural frequency will result in a resonance issue with real world harmonic loads.

What does this do for you?

· Extract the natural frequency of designs and study the response close to these natural frequencies.

· Understand the complex relationship between harmonic frequencies and your design's resulting stress, strain and displacement.

Provides tools to analyze how a design behaves based on time-varying loads.

What does this do for you?

· Simulate loading over time and analyze related issues at specified locations due to time-varying loads.

Predict and control vibrations or dynamic responses in your products with a choice of integrated design studies, including transient study and random response study.

What does this do for you?

· Produce real world analysis of your product under real world excitation curves.

· Analyze resulting stress, displacement, velocity, acceleration with time, and RMS and PSD values.

Flow Simulation will analyze fluid flow both internal and external to a design.

What does this do for you?

· Analyze flow through pipes, ducts, heat exchangers, etc... all with multiple inlets and outlets.

· Analyze flow around objects like buildings, wing profiles, etc..

Analyzes just about any fluid.  From water to blood to plastics to ketchup to superheated gasses.

What does this do for you?

· Provides an enormous flexibility in material selection to closely mimic real world material conditions.

Flow Simulation offers standard fan curves as well as the opportunity to define custom fan curves.

What does this do for you?

· Simplifies flow simulation by providing a tool that replaces the need to model a fan.

· Provides an accurate portrayal of fan start-up and operation for time dependant studies.

Provides the ability to identify rotating-coordinate frames.

What does this do for you?

· Simplifies the simulation of fluids interacting with a rotating component (such as an impeller).

Like Optimization, provides the ability to identify the design's end results and have Flow Simulation modify the design to obtain the desired results.

What does this do for you?

· Let the software find the best dimensions or inlet/outlet conditions that satisfy goals such as force, pressure drop, or velocity.

Included is a complete set of integrated 3D visualization and numeric analysis tools.

What does this do for you?

· Understand resulting velocity, pressure, temperature and mass fraction using multi-colored intuitive section plots.

· Measure and graph results along any single point or along a SolidWorks sketch.

· Examine flow trajectories inside or around the model with animated bands, 3D arrows, pipes or spheres.

· Track the behavior of a particle suspended in a flow.

Simulate real world temperature conditions along with the flow analysis.

What does this do for you?

· Determine how temperature changes by applying a surface or volume heat source.

· Study the affects of forced or natural convection or account for solar radiation.

· Use heat sink emulators to study effects on electronic components.