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Feature Matrix

SW Prem

SIM STD

SIM Pro

SIM Prem

  • Fully Embedded in SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD
  • Full Associativity with 3D Design Changes
  • Support SOLIDWORKS Configurations
  • SOLIDWORKS Material Properties Support
  • Solid, Shell and Beam modeling
  • h and p adaptive element type
  • Mesh control capabilities
  • Failure Mesh Diagnostic
  • Simplify model tool for meshing
  • Customisable Material Library
  • Bonded contact condition
  • Node-to-node, surface-to-surface contact condition
  • Shrink Fit condition
  • Virtual Wall condition
  • Connectors: bolt, spring, pin, elastic support and bearing
  • Connectors Safety Check
  • Contour, Iso-Surface, Surface, Section Result Plot
  • Probe tool
  • Design Insight
  • Compare test data
  • List values on selected entities
  • Animation of Results
  • Customisable simulation report
  • eDrawings of Simulation results
  • Analyse the structural behavior or parts and assemblies under loading
  • Fixtures to prescribe zero or non-zero displacements
  • Structural loads
  • Temperature loading
  • Import Flow/Thermal Effects
  • Calculation of stress, strain, displacement and FOS
  • Calculation of reaction forces and moments

This feature is included in all four 4 packages that are available.

What-if scenarios based on defined variables (dimensions, mass properties, simulation data)

  • Analyse the life expectancy of structure under repeated loading
  • Theory of Cumulative Damage
  • Fatigue Check Plot
  • Outputs: life, damage and factor of safety plots

Detect trends in results from different iterations of a static study

This package comes with Simulation Professional & Simulation Premium

  • Thermal contact resistance condition
  • Insulated condition
  • Edge and spot weld connector

This package comes with Simulation Professional & Simulation Premium

  • Analyse the natural frequencies and mode shape of parts and assemblies
  • Import Flow/Thermal Effects
  • Load Stiffening
  • Analyse slender structure for critical buckling factors and the associated buckling mode shapes
  • Import Flow/Thermal Effects

This package comes with Simulation Professional & Simulation Premium

  • Analyse the effect of the impact of a part or an assembly on a target surface
  • Inputs: drop height, gravity, velocity at impact
  • Outputs: stress, displacement, and strains
  • Analyse the structural behavior or parts and assemblies under loading
  • Linear combination and square root of the sum of the squares (SRSS)

Analyse the structural resistance of a sub model from a main assembly

*Moved from Premium into Professional from SOLIDWORKS 2015

This package comes with Simulation Professional & Simulation Premium

  • Transient (time dependent) loads
  • Large component deformation
  • Nonlinear materials
  • Modal Time History Analysis
  • Harmonic Analysis
  • Random Vibration Analysis
  • Response Spectrum Analysis

This package is included with Simulation Premium

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