Perform Virtual testing and analysis of parts and assemblies

SolidWorks Simulation Professional extends the capabilities of SolidWorks Simulation so you can expand your virtual environment to evaluate the longevity of your design. It also allows you to measure complex load scenarios.

Study and optimize assemblies of all sizes:

• Evaluate forces and stresses between contacting parts, including friction
• Use connectors or virtual fasteners to model bolts, pins, springs, and bearings
• Bond components with clearances or gaps, without modification
• Apply bearing loads, forces, pressures, and torques
• Use Trend Tracker and Design Insight plots to drive optimal changes as you work
• Create plane stress, plane strain, and axisymmetry linear static analysis

Simulate drop tests using your parts or assemblies:

• Calculate acceleration loads, stresses, and displacements as the components hit the floor of each other 

Analyze assembly motion for process and task workflow with event-based simulation:

• Utilize the entirely new user interface to define motion studies based on model event
• Trigger actions through new motion sensors, time, or the completion of a previous task
• Gain greater control of model actuators with the new servo motors

Understand the effects of temperature changes on parts and assemblies:

• Study conduction, convection, and radiation heat transfer
• Utilize isotopic, orthotropic, and temperature-dependent material properties

Simulate vibration of buckling in your designs:

• Examine now vibrating or unstable modes can shorten equipment life and cause unexpected failures
• Assess the effects of stiffening under external load on frequency or buckling response

Study the effects of cyclic loading on product life:

• Check a system’s expected life or accumulated damage after a specified number of cycles
• Import load history data from real physics tests to define loading events