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SolidWorks Simulation: Validate Design Concepts at the speed of your mind
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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
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SolidWorks Premium |
SolidWorks
Simulation Professional |
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SolidWorks Flow Simulation |
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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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