Structural Designer role (SRD) | Recent enhancements

This role allows you to:

  • Intuitively the performance of products under linear static conditions and guide the overall design process
  • Quickly evaluate the strength and stiffness of components for informed what-if design scenarios
  • Use a unique guided workflow process that enables any designer to rapidly determine product performance
  • Easily and efficiently test product designs with automated modeling and ability to control accuracy vs compute time
  • Include local compute up to 4 cores

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R2025x FD03

Functional Value

  • Enhance stress simulation associativity with motion analysis with the introduction of inertia relief loading type
     

User Experience Value

Enhance stress simulation associativity with motion analysis with the introduction of inertia relief loading type

 

R2025x FD02

Functional Value

  • Flexibly and effectively use native applications and monitor simulations during execution with the new local interactive solve mode

User Experience Value

  • Quickly and easily operate virtual bolts and the associated scenario features with the new activate/deactivate option

 

Quickly and easily operate virtual bolts and the associated scenario features with the new activate/deactivate option

 

Flexibly and effectively use native applications and monitor simulations during execution with the new local interactive solve mode

 

R2024x FD04

User Experience Value

  • Easily review simulation data size and delete them efficiently to optimize data storage in 3DEXPERIENCE

Easily review simulation data size and delete them efficiently to optimize data storage in 3DEXPERIENCE

 

R2024x FD03

User Experience Value

  • Easily and dependably interpret simulation results by exposing all the relevant operating loading results history for cases involving assembly loading

Easily and dependably interpret simulation results by exposing all the relevant operating loading results history for cases involving assembly loading

 

R2024x FD01

Functional Value

  • Enable simulation workflows with non-structural mass contributions with the addition of nonstructural mass and remote inertia definitions
Enable simulation workflows with non-structural mass contributions with the addition of nonstructural mass definition

 

Enable simulation workflows with non-structural mass contributions with the addition of remote inertia definition

 

R2024x GA

User Experience Value

  • Diagnose and fix modeling issues quickly and efficiently with automatic detection of unconstrained motion

Diagnose and fix modeling issues quickly and efficiently with automatic detection of unconstrained motion

 

R2023 FD01 

Functional Value

  • Improve contact interaction robustness using newly enhanced default contact setting
  • Improve results interpretation by plotting heat flux components

User Experience Value

Modify simulation settings quickly and efficiently by editing scenario features directly through the improved assistant panel

Modify simulation settings quickly and efficiently by editing scenario features directly through the improved assistant panel

Improve contact interaction robustness using newly enhanced default contact setting

Improve results interpretation by plotting heat flux components

R2022x FD04

Functional Value

  • Local Mesh Specification support in Linear Structural Validation to get more accurate local stress or strain field results
  • New factor of safety output for virtual bolts allowing a quick check if the bolt has failed or not

Local Mesh Specification support in Linear Structural Validation to get more accurate local stress or strain field results

New factor of safety output for virtual bolts allowing a quick check if the bolt has failed or not

R2022x FD03

User Experience Value

  • Structural simulations performed using this role (on cloud) can now be monitored from the Simulation Manager app, a web-based app available from any device

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R2022x FD02

Functional Value

  • Integration of Physics Simulation objects to the 3DMarkup app to create persistent annotations and slides based on such data, useful for collaboration and design change process

User Experience Value

  • Mesh Specification User experience improvements in Linear Structural Validation
  • Meshing - Upgrade of the tet filler mesher algorithm leading to improvements in the mesh quality and robustness
  • Additional results plots to assist the users in understanding more effectively and more efficiently the simulation results

Integration of Physics Simulation objects to the 3DMarkup app to create persistent annotations and slides based on such data, useful for collaboration and design change process

Mesh Specification User experience improvements in Linear Structural Validation

Additional results plots to assist the users in understanding more effectively and more efficiently the simulation results

R2022x FD01

Functional Value

  • To streamline even further the SOLIDWORKS Simulation to 3DEXPERIENCE SIMULIA applications, the linear static study conditions are transferred into 3DEXPERIENCE linear structural validation
  • Initial Temperature capability is added in Linear Structural Validation for thermal stress simulation

User Experience Value

  • Enable Linear Structural Validation users to be able to keep results of previous simulations when running a new simulation.

Initial Temperature capability is added in Linear Structural Validation for thermal stress simulation

Initial Temperature capability is added in Linear Structural Validation for thermal stress simulation

To streamline even further the SOLIDWORKS Simulation to 3DEXPERIENCE SIMULIA applications, the linear static study conditions are transferred into 3DEXPERIENCE linear structural validation

Enable Linear Structural Validation users to be able to keep results of previous simulations when running a new simulation.

R2021x FD07

Functional Value

  • To speed up and make Assembly simulation easier than ever, the powerful General Contact capability has been added to Structural Designer, for linear cases. This enables users to set up in single click contact in assemblies

User Experience Value

  • Material - Added scroll bars and other User Interface modification improving dramatically the user experience when defining material simulation model

To speed up and make Assembly simulation easier than ever, the powerful General Contact capability has been added to Structural Designer, for linear cases. This enables users to set up in single click contact in assemblies

To improve the User experience when defining Material with Simulation Domain, the Simulation Domain editor has been enhanced :

R2021x FD06

Functional Value

  • Improve mesh quality around holes for accuracy

Improve default meshing around holes and curvatures

Improve user ability to refine meshing around holes and curvatures

R2021x FD05

User Experience Value

  • Offers more complete information on the progress of a simulation during the execution of the simulation

R2021x FD04

Functional Value

  • Experience seamless workflow with full support for SOLIDWORKS modeling practices based on multi body during FEM initialization

Experience seamless workflow with full support for SOLIDWORKS modeling practices based on multi body during FEM initialization

Experience seamless workflow with full support for SOLIDWORKS modeling practices based on multi body during FEM initialization