Design Validation

Superior Product Design Through Powerful In-CAD Simulation

Engineering successful, innovative products in today’s competitive environment requires simulation power. Companies need robust simulation tools to efficiently overcome time, budget, and quality demands. Download this white paper to learn how SOLIDWORKS® Simulation provides powerful simulation capabilities that can solve complex analysis problems through structural, thermal, frequency, dynamics, and flow simulations, helping you design better, more innovative products faster and more cost-effectively.

Enhancing Data Management Workflows through CAD-Integrated Simulation

Design and manufacturing companies today rely heavily on simulation results to guide design decisions. Managing an expanding simulation environment of tools, data, and processes is becoming more and more important. Simulation results need to be integrated with the enterprise’s overall product development environment; however, companies of all sizes are still struggling to manage their increasing volume of simulation data.

Accurate Design Simulations Improve Product Development

Creating innovative products requires insights into design performance, and design engineers who can predict design behavior are more efficient, innovative, and successful. With SOLIDWORKS Simulation 3D CAD integrated analysis solutions, you can intuitively, accurately, and cost-effectively simulate how a product will perform, enabling you to dimension precisely and optimize designs while reducing prototyping and time-consuming trials processes. SOLIDWORKS Simulation allows you to accurately solve complex analysis problems, helping you overcome time, budget, and quality challenges.

Drive Growth and Innovation with Sustainable Design

Manufacturers that effectively adopt sustainable design practices will position themselves to successfully respond to increasing consumer demand for “greener” products. They also will spark innovation in product development, control energy and material costs, and grow revenues. Yet, implementing a sustainable design strategy can be challenging because of misconceptions about costs versus benefits, as well as questions about how to effectively implement sustainable design. You can facilitate the implementation of sustainable design by using product life cycle information to leverage sustainability as a competitive advantage.

Solve Complex Simulations to Enhance Product Performance

Engineering successful, innovative products in today’s competitive environment requires simulation power. The ability to analyze the multifaceted physical performance characteristics of a design before making a prototype can substantially increase productivity. Companies need robust simulation tools to efficiently overcome time, budget, and quality demands. SolidWorks® Simulation delivers powerful simulation capabilities that can solve complex analysis problems, helping you design better, more innovative products faster and more cost-effectively.

Grow Your Business with Integrated Simulation

Design and engineering consulting firms can take advantage of emerging opportunities for business and revenue growth by implementing integrated simulation technologies. In response to a challenging economic climate, more and more manufacturers seek engineering service providers to help them evaluate design performance, as well as consult on other facets of product development and manufacturing. In this whitepaper, you can see how to position your consultancy, using integrated SolidWorks®  Simulation software, to reap the rewards of this trend, secure valuable customer partnerships and improve your operations.

Design to Prevent Fatigue

Learn how to determine fatigue strength in materials, calculate fatigue life, and design with it in mind.

Driving Better Product Design with SolidWorks Simulation

The SolidWorks® Simulation suite provides the advanced capabilities you need to get to market faster—designers can catch mistakes sooner, change course quickly, and create better-performing products at a lower cost

Integrating 3D Mechanical Design and Analysis with Physical Testing

Written in collaboration with National Instruments, this report examines integration of design, analysis, and physical testing

Simulating Drop Tests in SolidWorks

Learn how to run up-front drop tests on your designs easily and quickly. This report shows how setting up a drop test is just like setting up any other SolidWorks Simulation analysis study.

SolidWorks Optimization

Design optimization can increase the value of a product by improving its performance within its operating environment, and by reducing the cost of producing it by reducing the amount of material used to make it.

Streamlining design with real-world vibration analysis

Any time a component or an assembly is subjected to a changing or dynamic load, it may react or vibrate in a way that ranges from merely annoying to critically dangerous.

Thermal Analysis

This Whitepaper discusses how design verification tools like SolidWorks Simulation can help you solve problems with Thermal analysis. Thermal analysis can be executed to find temperature distribution, gradient, and heal flowing in a mocel, as well as heat exchanged between the model and its environment.

Understanding Motion Simulation
Motion simulation provides complete, quantitative information about the kinematics - including position, velocity, and acceleration, and the dynamics - including joint reactions, inertial forces, and power requirements, of all the components of a moving mechanism.

Sustainable Design - Not Just for Architecture Anymore

How CAE tools combine better product design with savvy business decisions for positive environmental impacts.

Understanding Nonlinear Analysis

This report explains the differences between linear and nonlinear analysis and how to understand various types of nonlinear behavior.