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Irfan Zardadkhan, PhD, CSWE
Irfan’s SW 2013 Flow Simulation Pick of the Day: Flow Leakage Browser [VIDEO]
By Irfan Zardadkhan, PhD, CSWE on December 4, 2012My SolidWorks Flow Simulation 2013 pick of the day is the new leakage browser functionality. Hidden within the lids creation tool is the leakage tracking functionality. It helps you quickly locate holes or displacement gaps within the flow models. The tool works by selecting a pair of faces, one on the inside of the flow domain and one on the outside of the flow domain and then finds a connecting path between the two faces. The only way to get from one face to the other would be through a hole or a gap. This tool can really help debug issues with flow domains which would have required a lot of manual effort in the previous releases. Watch the video below to see the tool in action.
Simulation: Shell Elements vs. Solid Elements
By Irfan Zardadkhan, PhD, CSWE on October 11, 2012
A number of people are quite reluctant to use shell elements vs. solid elements. Shell elements can be a huge time save since they allow the modelling of thin features with relatively much fewer elements than solid elements. They are also easier to mesh and…