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SolidWorks Simulation: Validate Design Concepts at the speed
of your mind !
Machine Designers are always exploring new horizons when it comes to
innovation and ingenuity. Quick validation of design concepts
helps Designers perfect their ideas into deployable form. This is
the intent of SolidWorks Simulation. For a Machine Designer,
SolidWorks Simulation is a validation paradise - with Simulation for
checking the strength of designs and Motion Simulation for evaluating
alternative designs. SolidWorks Simulation with Motion Simulation puts the mind to test !
Yes, with SolidWorks Simulation and Motion Simulation, it is REALLY the
other way
around. SolidWorks Simulation ensures that you have exhausted all
your design options before you conclude you have the best design.
SolidWorks Simulation delivers more than what the designers can ask
for. Be they contact stresses, life prediction, mechanical
advantage, deflection calculations or just simple validation - whether
a design will work or not - SolidWorks Simulation with Motion
Simulation empowers designers to
deliver the best.Ensuring your designs work under What-if scenarios !
When a machine is subjected to a combination of loads, the cumulative effect cannot be easily predicted with ease. SolidWorks Simulation empowers design engineers to validate numerous what-if scenarios eliminating the scope for errors or re-work. This ensures that Design Engineers adopt 'Do it Once, Do it Right,' strategy to develop successful designs.Why is SolidWorks Design Validation Toolset preferred by Machine Designers?
Be it CAM design, gearing design, mechanism analysis or stress analysis, Motor selection, SolidWorks Simulation with Motion Simulation fulfils the design requirements of Engineers involved in design and development of complex machines - be they small or large. Challenges addressed by SolidWorks Simulation Suite of Software products include:- Value Engineering for Superior Performance
- Design, Check, Validate and Release Drawings for Innovative Designs
- Life Estimation and Failure mode prediction
- Design-Validate-Drawing Release
- Unique combination at work in a Single Window Interface
- Checking for Vibration and providing solutions
- Evaluation of Multiple
Design scenarios at the same time
Capability Matrix of SolidWorks Simulation for Machine Design
| Functional
Capability |
SolidWorks
Premium |
SolidWorks
Simulation Professional |
SolidWorks
Simulation Premium |
SolidWorks
Flow Simulation |
| Assembly Stress & Deflection
(Stiffness)
for spindles, machine slides, bearing housing, fixtures, support
structures |
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| Mechanism
Simulation for timing devices, cam actuated mechanisms, indexing
mechanisms, actuator systems, sequencing / sorting devices |
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| Welded Structure Simulation for
structures, load carrying members |
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| Failure
Prediction in moving / rotating components |
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| Compare and Optimize Alternative
Designs for Weight Reduction |
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| Estimate
Natural Frequencies of systems to identify vibration problems |
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| Estimate Buckling Loads and
critical buckling modes |
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| Heating
and Cooling Simulation in Gearbox, sealing systems, thermal management
systems |
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| Drop Test Simulation for impact
simulation |
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| Repeated
Loading Simulation |
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| Forced Vibration Simulation and
Response to cutting forces, geared systems performance and actuation
system response |
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| Non-linear
Dynamics of Elastomers, Seals, Advanced Tooth Contact Wear in Gears,
contact stresses between components |
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| Simulate Plastic Parts |
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| Fluid
Flow Simulation for better heat management |
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