With the powerful design validation tools in SolidWorks®, you can easily subject your designs to the same conditions that they'll experience in the real world. Raise the quality of your products while you reduce costs for live prototypes and testing.

	Tolerance Stack-up Validation. TolAnalyst analyzes a design based on the order and manner in which parts are assembled, as well as DimXpert-applied dimensions and tolerances.
	Assembly Simulation. Study the interactions of assembly components on-screen, before incurring the costs of physical prototypes. Simulate static or dynamic loads to evaluate your design’s performance under stress, strain, and displacement.
	Mechanism Simulation. Apply a wide variety of physics-based models to simulate real-world operating conditions for your design. Check for colliding parts. Output numerical and graphic data of the results, as well as animations of your tests.
	Simulate Welded Structures. Ensure your welded structures perform at peak operating conditions. Apply pressure, forces, and bearing loads. Then use visualization tools like section plots, ISO clipping, and animation to review the response.

One of the most comprehensive and sophisticated Finite Element Analysis (FEA) packages available, SolidWorks® Simulation Premium integrates completely with SolidWorks CAD software.

Bring highly advanced validation tools to your design teams at a fraction of the cost of most high-end FEA programs.

Any engineer can easily apply SolidWorks Simulation Premium to perform tough validation tasks like these:

• Study the performance of your designs for excessive deflections and stresses under dynamic loads.
• Perform nonlinear analysis–including impact–on plastics, rubbers, polymers, and foam.
• Conduct contact analysis coupled with nonlinear materials.
• Evaluate the behavior of composite materials.

Simulation Professional

With SolidWorks® Simulation Professional, you can accurately simulate real-world operating conditions, reducing the time and costs associated with building and testing prototypes.

Fully integrated with SolidWorks CAD software, SolidWorks Simulation Professional helps ensure that your designs can be accurately and cost-efficiently manufactured by finding design errors on-screen–instead of on the production floor.

SolidWorks Flow Simulation

SolidWorks® Flow Simulation is the first and easiest fluid-flow simulation and thermal analysis program fully embedded within SolidWorks software.

SolidWorks Flow Simulation eliminates the need to modify your design for a different computational fluid dynamics (CFD) application saving considerable time and cost. With its CFD analysis capabilities, you can simulate liquid and gas flow in real world conditions, run “what if” scenarios, and quickly analyze the effects of fluid flow, heat transfer, and related forces on immersed or surrounding components. Fluids of interest for analysis range from air, water, liquid chemicals, and gases to juice, ice cream, honey, plastic melts, toothpaste, blood, and others.

Electronic Cooling Module The electronic cooling module provides accurate thermal analysis of printed circuit boards (PCBs) and enclosure designs based on more realistic modeling of individual components and PCBs. These factors improve the accuracy of the thermal modeling: The engineering database now contains more materials and components, and a PCB generator, for the precise thermal modeling of a multilayer PCB. The module accounts for the effects of Joule heating. You can choose to represent geometry as a two-resistor model.
HVAC Design The HVAC module evaluates the impact of air quality and temperature on products or people. For example, the module can analyze a vehicle's air conditioning unit, a server room's cooling system, or a building's ability to clear smoke. SThe inclusion of building materials and the calculation of materials that are semitransparent to radiation, such as glass, make the thermal simulation of buildings and most enclosures easier and more accurate.

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