SolidWorks Simulation Professional

With SolidWorks® Simulation Professional, you can accurately simulate real-world operating conditions – reducing the time and costs associated with building and testing prototypes.

Fully integrated with SolidWorks CAD software, SolidWorks Simulation Professional helps ensure that your designs can be accurately and cost-efficiently manufactured by finding design errors on-screen–instead of on the production floor.

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SolidWorks Simulation Professional capabilities:

Compare and Optimize Alternatives. Determine the best design option by comparing strengths, life, cost, and weight. Perform all comparisons and design modifications within the SolidWorks environment.  

Simulate Drop Test or Impact. Save time and cost by reducing the number of physical tests.  Define drop height, surface, and orientation. Perform realistic collision simulation between parts or assemblies.  

Predict Buckling or Collapse. Virtually apply forces, pressure, gravity, and centrifugal forces to your designs to determine maximum loads before buckling. Study the effects of various materials as well as isotopic and orthotropic factors. 

Simulate Heating or Cooling. Thermal analysis capabilities enable you to easily study heat effects on your designs. Simulate thermal boundary conditions, fluid flow, thermal-structural interactions, and radiation effects in high-temperature applications.




Assembly Simulation. Study the interactions of assembly components on-screen, before incurring the costs of physical prototypes. Simulate static or dynamic loads to evaluate your design’s performance under stress, strain, and displacement. 

Mechanism Simulation. Apply a wide variety of physics-based models to simulate real-world operating conditions for your design. Check for colliding parts. Output numerical and graphic data of the results, as well as animations of your tests.

Simulate Welded Structures. Ensure your welded structures perform at peak operating conditions. Apply pressure, forces, and bearing loads. Then use visualization tools like section plots, ISO clipping, and animation to review the response.
 
Product Failure Prediction. Save the time and cost of prototyping, while creating safer, more durable products. Predict structural failure thresholds due to yielding, overheating, buckling, and fatigue.  

Simulate Vibrations. Predict and control vibrations or dynamic responses in your products with a choice of integrated design studies, including Transient study, Harmonic Response study, and Random Response study. 
 
Simulate Repeated Loading. Simulate, evaluate, and improve a part or assembly that must withstand the rigors of daily operation. Evaluate the differences in your system’s performance to varying speeds or frequencies, and estimate the design life of your entire product.

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