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SolidWorks Simulation Validation Library
By Irfan Zardadkhan, PhD, CSWE on December 10, 2012
I see a number of people trying to create simple simulation studies and then comparing the results to hand calculations of well known problems. Although this is a good practice to gain confidence in the…
SOLIDWORKS Simulation Beam Joint Reactions [VIDEO]
By Irfan Zardadkhan, PhD, CSWE on December 5, 2012
My tech tip of the day is the new functionality for obtaining SOLIDWORKS Simulation Beam Joint beam joint reactions. Now it is possible to list reaction forces and reaction moments at beam joints that have…
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…
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…
Even a Nonlinear Nincompoop can validate a design with SOLIDWORKS Simulation software
By Rod Mackay on August 9, 2012
Until recently, most FEA applications undertaken by design engineers were limited to linear analysis which provides an acceptable approximation of real-life characteristics for most problems design engineers encounter. Nevertheless, occasionally more challenging problems arise, problems…
Bowling in SolidWorks Motion
By Wayne Chen, CSWP on March 19, 2012
It isn’t easy to make a strike in bowling (for me anyways). I also tried an experiment in SW Motion and it was not easy to make a strike in virtual world. I created a…
Beam Element Improvement in SOLIDWORKS Simulation
By Wayne Chen, CSWP on March 5, 2012
There are some improvements I would like to talk about for beam element in SolidWorks 2012. Let’s use the particle separator model as example. The machine has solid and shell elements. The majority of the…
Designing a Labyrinth game with SolidWorks
By Scott Durksen, CSWE on October 3, 2011
I’ve been a fan of the game of Labyrinth for a while. I spent hours as a kid mastering the X-Y controls to move the steel sphere from Start to Finish to Start to Finish,…
SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation Error: “Face is not laying on the boundary between the solid and fluid region.”
By Wayne Chen, CSWP on September 12, 2011
Usually when you receive the SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation Error: Face is not laying on the boundary between the solid and fluid region It is related to the geometry of the model (assuming the boundary conditions…
Taking the deformed model out of Simulation (FEA) and using it!
By Wayne Chen, CSWP on May 16, 2011
Let’s see what we can do with the simulation deformed model. It can be saved as a new solid model shown below. In this example I will take a cushion from a sofa and deform…
How can Simulation Help Design Process?
By Wayne Chen, CSWP on December 22, 2010I read an article recently, regarding to how Simulation can improve product design. There are some interesting points I would like to talk about. The purpose of any FEA software is to linearize the product development, eventually, to reduce cost. For new product or existing design, FEA plays its role in the process. The article…
NEW! in Simulation 2011 – 2D Simplification
By Wayne Chen, CSWP on November 15, 2010
If you haven’t tried this, you should! 2D simplification study for Simulation Professional. It will save you a lot of time to conduct detailed analysis on your model. Let’s use a bolt and nut example:…
Some SOLIDWORKS Simulation Usage Tips
By Wayne Chen, CSWP on September 30, 2010
Here are a few SOLIDWORKS Simulation usage tips we provide in training classes: SOLIDWORKS Simulation How to successfully mesh? Mesh failure is common if only global size is used, because small features/components may not take…
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