SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation
SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation has some great tutorials to quickly learn how to use the software and then work your way up to getting up and going on your own projects. If you are signed up for training at our office, it’s also a great way to get prepared in order to ask more detailed questions from your instructor.
To access the Tutorials, you first would
need to have Flow Simulation enabled as an add-in, and then from the Help menu,
under the SOLIDWORKS Simulation (Also Read: SolidWorks Simulation Standard) submenu item, you will see a listing of FlowSimulation topics including the Tutorials.
The tutorials are a PDF manual with
examples beginning with first steps to learn the interface, with a Ball Valve
for example, then move on to Intermediate examples, such as Heat Exchanger
Efficiency, to learn how to use design goals and properly construct your
computational mesh. And by this point,
you’d be ready for more Advanced examples, such as a rotating Textile
Machine. All of these example models are
loaded onto your hard drive in the installation directory under a folder called
“Examples,” where the default location is C:\Program Files\SolidWorks
Corp\SolidWorks Flow Simulation\Examples.
(Note that the models should not be used directly from here but copied
to another location to preserve the originals.)
You might have caught in the first image
above that there is also an option for Flow Simulation Technical
Reference. This PDF is another great
resource to learn how to use the software, and at the end of this document
there are even more examples that are provided as Validation examples. The 2015 release includes one new validation
example based on a Buice-Eaton diffuser, used as a turbulence modeling test
case. Those models are similarly located
in a folder named “Validation Examples,” and all are setup and ready to solve.
Note that a direct route to the PDF
documents mentioned in this post is to go to the source files in this location:
“C:\Program Files\SolidWorks Corp\SolidWorks Flow Simulation\lang\english\Docs”,
where you can substitute “english” for 1 of 6 languages of your choice.
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