Before we get into which simulation solutions industries should choose, let us understand why simulation is a must during your design phase.
Designing and developing successful products requires innovation, reliability, and speed. As an engineer, you must not only satisfy form, fit, and function requirements, you must also create unique, cost effect and manufacturable product designs faster. To achieve these goals, you need to have as much information as early as possible about how your design is going to perform under real-world operating conditions without resorting to costly, time-consuming rounds of physical prototype testing or outsourced simulations.
With SOLIDWORKS Simulation and 3DEXPERIENCE Simulation solutions, you can run accurate FEA simulations during your design phase, giving you fast access to structural analysis results early in the development process, such as stress level, deformed shape, product lifespan, etc. With this vital information, you can make critical design decisions that help you to:
- Optimize material usage
- Avoid unexpected failures in actual working conditions
- Improve Product Reliability to avoid warranty claims and returns
- Reduce Prototype testing cost & time
- Eliminate design uncertainties
- Confidence to Explore new design alternatives
Now that you know why simulation is required during design process, let us understand in detail about SOLIDWORKS Simulation & 3DEXPERIRENCE Simulation powered by SIMULIA Abaqus. Let us see which of these solution will be the right fit for organizations as per the flexibility, scalability & capabilities.
SOLIDWORKS Simulation:
SOLIDWORKS Simulation is an easy-to-use portfolio of structural analysis tools that use Finite Element Analysis (FEA) to predict a product’s real-world physical behaviour by virtually testing CAD models. It’s been around for years tracing its root back to 1982 and the Structural Research and Analysis Corporation (SRAC). SOLIDWORKS Simulation used to be called COSMOS Works, later acquired by Dassault Systemes in 2001 and renamed it as SOLIDWORKS Simulation.
Built within the SOLIDWORKS CAD user interface, its power and advantage lies in the integration to the CAD design in the single user interface. Any design change is instantly picked up by the simulations associated with the design, and gives you the results for your updated model. SOLIDWORKS Simulation excels in intuitive user interface, ease of learning and faster to use with well-designed solvers, mesh controls, and range of analysis types it can solve i.e. linear static, thermal, and linear dynamics analysis to name a few. Its built for Design engineers who can quickly evaluate their product Designs to understand & predict the areas of failures quickly without spending too much of time in Learning the tool itself.
3DEXPERIENCE WORKS Simulation
3DEXPERIENCE Works Simulation is easy-to-use, easy-to-access- and easy-to-share advanced simulation solutions from market-leader SIMULIA Abaqus technology.
It is a part of 3DEXPERIENCE Works portfolio caters to solutions driven by Powerful ABAQUS technology enabling engineers to push their design limits further and model complex structural simulations with high accuracy.
A common theme presented between all SOLIDWORKS solutions is to provide connectivity among the solutions. If you are designing your product in SOLIDWORKS and would like to leverage the platform for its advanced simulation capabilities, collaborative designers for SOLIDWORKS enables users to seamlessly transfer of existing SOLIDWORKS designs to the 3DEXPERIENCE platform to access advanced simulation by SIMULIA Abaqus.
Another significant advantage of 3DEXPERIENCE Simulation is that engineers can access it from anywhere through a browser. Engineers can also share simulation models and results with any internal or external stakeholders with Simulation review application. With Multithreaded processing, it delivers rendering and visualization of large-scale simulations fast. The cloud-based nature of 3DEXPERIENCE Platform also offers flexible computer power, High Performance Computing (HPC) on the cloud which reduces hardware costs to run advanced and complex simulations.
Additionally, the 3DEXPERIENCE WORKS simulation portfolio offers not only Structure, but also Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Plastic Injection, Electromagnetics Simulation solutions and Simulation Review for collaboration among team.
SOLIDWORKS Simulation or 3DEXPERIENCE Simulation
To summarize, SOLIDWORKS Simulation is CAD integrated simulation tool for designers and engineers who wants fast results for designs that allows you to check for its real world working scenario with ease of use interface and design better products. Whereas, 3DEXPERIENCE simulation roles are cloud based scalable solutions powered by SIMULIA Abaqus for designers, engineers and analysts to solve static analysis to advance non-linear and explicit problems.
- -By
- Mahendra K H
- Sr. Application Engineer- Simulation Solutions
