Structural Simulation

Make informed design decisions with a comprehensive suite of structural analysis tools.

Integrates seamlessly into your design process using Finite Element Analysis (FEA) to eliminate the uncertainty and potential setbacks of a wait-and-see approach.
Whether you're analyzing single components or complex assemblies, you can optimize product quality and performance while staying on schedule and within budget.
Cloud-enabled solutions, powered by Abaqus technology, ensure real-time updates and accuracy, using the same CAD data as your design teams.

Everything happens inside SOLIDWORKS. You don’t need to create something and move it into a different tool. You have everything inside. I think that’s the main feature that makes SOLIDWORKS Simulation easier for the user.

Marcus Sobral

Tenaris

Computational Fluid Dynamics

Explore and optimize fluid flow and thermal performance quickly and easily with SOLIDWORKS Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) tools. Explore fluid flow and thermal performance of products to accelerate product innovation quickly.

CFD provides multi-scale, multi-physical insights to help predict steady-state and transient fluid and heat transfer behavior. A fully integrated multidisciplinary environment offers quick and easy CFD analyses.
Collaborate and make faster data-driven decisions with project stakeholders around fluid flow simulation results.

We were able to run a thermal and fluid flow analysis with SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation within 24 hours to confirm that the product supplied would work and that the anti-icing would have no hot or cold spots on the separator vanes. This saved us and the customer up to four weeks in external review and £5 to 10K in assessment costs, and kept the project on-time and on-budget.

Andrew Thomson

Managing Director | Optar Technologies Ltd.

Plastics Injection Modeling

Predict and prevent manufacturing defects in plastic parts during the design phase with Plastics Injection Molding simulation tools. SOLIDWORKS Plastics Simulation enables users to evaluate mold designs, optimize product quality, and reduce waste.

Prevent manufacturing errors, so users can easily identify and correct potential manufacturing errors during the design process and ensure the quality of the parts.
Optimize the molding process to reduce the need for polishing, deburring, or flash removal.
Test for errors upfront, ensuring manufacturability while significantly cutting down on costly rework and process inefficiencies.

The historical approach to injection molding is to continue creating prototype molds and shooting samples until an acceptable mold is reached. To avoid this type of project creep and provide the most efficient, cost-effective solutions to our clients, we sought to utilize injection-mold simulation software to resolve manufacturing issues up front, taking both time and cost out of the mold development process. SOLIDWORKS Plastics Professional is a natural extension of the way we work.

Jeffrey D. Nicoll

President, Founder, and Owner | Ambix Consulting, LLC

Electromagnetic Simulation

Easily analyze and optimize electromagnetic components and systems design and placement for maximum performance and reliability. Study the impact of both low and high-frequency electromagnetic waves on product and system behaviors.

Perform electromagnetics analysis, including optimization of antennas and microwave components, as well as electro-mechanical devices.
Streamline certification, reduce EMC risks, and ensure product reliability.
Advanced methods like FIT, FEM, and TLM provide robust solutions, empowering engineers to minimize errors and improve performance.
Deliver unprecedented simulation reliability through cross-verification to avoid device malfunctions, warranty claims, and recalls.

{We have} the ability to model so many different environments and scenarios within and outside the enclosure of our products. I’m able to anticipate most [design issues] before we get it into the lab, which cuts down on revision times. With a lot of our products, we’ve seen our first proof of concept antenna working exactly as designed, which is pretty incredible.

Mark Zakhem

Hardware Design & Regulatory Engineer | Inovonics