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
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
R2024x FD04
User Experience Value
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
R2024x FD01
Functional Value
- Enable simulation workflows with non-structural mass contributions with the addition of nonstructural mass and remote inertia definitions
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
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
