Seamless Workflow
Access Structural Designer directly from SOLIDWORKS® to simulate your model. When your CAD model changes in SOLIDWORKS, you can update the simulation model in just a few clicks.
Powerful Simulation Tailored for Designers
Structural Designer is an easy-to-use analysis role that enables designers to get technical insights from simulations to make informed design decisions. Structural Designer was developed with designers and the iterative design process in mind. With Structural Designer, any designer can assess product behavior for each ‘what if’ design iteration to improve product performance and reduce the time and cost of the product development process.
Easily Track and Share
With all your data on the cloud you can easily track data, enable traceable revisions and easily collaborate and share data with stakeholders through a web browser, and make decisions faster.
Scalable and Flexible
Run simulations on your local computer or on the cloud. With HPC on the 3DEXPERIENCE® platform you can run more time-consuming simulations.
You Don’t Have to Be an Expert
The User Assistant provides an interactive guided set up to make it easier to understand so you can get going fast. Other time-saving features include:
- Evaluation of stress, strain, natural frequency and temperature
- Intuitively assess 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
- Easily test product designs with automated modeling and the ability to control accuracy vs. compute time
Results You Can Count on with Abaqus Solvers
Structural Designer is equipped with industry proven Abaqus solvers for results you can trust. Capabilities include:
- High-quality results with automatic mesh generation based on geometry and local mesh control to precisely refine your geometry
- Quickly set up of simulation studies without the need for surface pairs using General Contact, including deformable and intermittent contact between parts
- Simulation procedures such as linear static, frequency, thermal (steady state), and buckling
- Restraints, loads and connections including sliding, bonded contacts, bolts and springs within assemblies
Stay Productive and Connected on the Cloud
Powerful cloud computing coupled with the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, offers so much value for the entire design and engineering team including:
- Ability to run multiple simulations and leverage up to 144 cores
- Seamless workflow between 3DEXPERIENCE Works roles
- Ability to view, share, annotate, discuss and manage design and simulation data for closer engineering collaboration