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January 17, 2025

What’s New in SOLIDWORKS 2025 Simulation

What’s New in SOLIDWORKS 2025 Simulation: Key Features & Enhancements

SolidWorks 2025 Simulation

As engineers and designers continue to push the boundaries of innovation, simulation tools play a crucial role in ensuring that designs meet the necessary performance standards. With SOLIDWORKS 2025, users can look forward to a host of new features and improvements in SOLIDWORKS Simulation that further enhance design validation, accuracy, and efficiency. 

Here’s a look at some of the standout updates in SOLIDWORKS 2025 Simulation.

Enhanced Performance for Large Assemblies
Working with large assemblies can be a challenge when running simulations, often resulting in long computation times. SOLIDWORKS 2025 addresses this issue with improved performance, making it easier to handle and analyze complex, multi-part assemblies. Whether you're testing the integrity of mechanical assemblies or analyzing a large set of components, the time required to get simulation results is now significantly reduced, allowing for faster iterations and quicker decision-making.

Multiphysics Simulation Capabilities
The ability to simulate multiple physical phenomena simultaneously has become increasingly important for modern product designs. SOLIDWORKS SIMULATION 2025 takes multiphysics simulations to the next level by integrating thermal, structural, and fluid flow analyses into a single model. This allows for more comprehensive simulations that reflect real-world scenarios. With this enhancement, engineers can better understand the combined effects of heat, stress, and fluid dynamics on their designs, leading to more accurate and reliable results.

New Mesh Control Options
Mesh generation is one of the most critical aspects of any simulation, as the accuracy of the mesh directly impacts the results. In SOLIDWORKS SIMULATION 2025, users now have access to additional mesh control options that provide finer control over how the mesh behaves in key areas of the model, such as fillets, holes, and other complex geometries. This results in more accurate simulations, especially for designs with intricate features that require precision.

Simulation-Driven Design Integration
SOLIDWORKS has always emphasized a simulation-driven design approach, and SOLIDWORKS 2025 takes this even further. The integration between SOLIDWORKS Simulation and the CAD environment has been improved, allowing users to iterate on designs quickly and validate them in real-time. The seamless connection between design and simulation enables engineers to make data-driven decisions early in the development process, ultimately reducing time-to-market and improving product quality.

Expanded Materials Library
Accurate material properties are essential for realistic simulations, and SOLIDWORKS 2025 offers an expanded materials library to improve the precision of your analysis. With more materials and material properties available, users can now better match the materials used in their designs, ensuring that simulations reflect real-world performance under various conditions.

Advanced Nonlinear and Fatigue Simulations
SOLIDWORKS 2025 brings notable improvements to nonlinear and fatigue analysis capabilities. Nonlinear simulations, especially those involving large deformations and contact analysis, are now more efficient and provide more accurate results. Similarly, fatigue analysis has been enhanced to offer better predictions of failure under cyclic loading, helping engineers assess the durability and lifespan of their designs more effectively.

Improved Post-Processing Tools
Once a simulation is complete, interpreting the results is just as important as running the analysis. SOLIDWORKS 2025 introduces several enhancements to post-processing, offering improved result visualization, more advanced charting options, and new ways to evaluate critical factors such as stress, strain, and deformation. These enhancements allow engineers to gain deeper insights into their designs, making it easier to identify potential issues before physical testing.

With these exciting new features and enhancements, SOLIDWORKS 2025 Simulation continues to push the boundaries of what’s possible in design validation. By improving performance, adding multiphysics capabilities, refining mesh controls, and enhancing post-processing tools, SOLIDWORKS 2025 offers a more powerful, efficient, and accurate simulation environment. These updates make it easier for engineers and designers to validate their designs, iterate quickly, and ensure that their products meet the highest standards of performance and reliability.

Whether you’re working on a simple part or a complex assembly, SOLIDWORKS 2025 Simulation provides the tools you need to bring your designs to life with confidence. Stay ahead of the curve and take full advantage of these new capabilities to streamline your design process and achieve better results.

For more information or to see how SOLIDWORKS 2025 Simulation can benefit your projects, feel free to contact us today! Our team is here to help you make the most out of these powerful new features and assist you with any questions or support you may need.

October 1, 2014

SOLIDWORKS Simulation Standard (FEA) software bundle now available



SOLIDWORKS Simulation Standard

is a new offering in the 2015 Simulation product suite.  The package includes the capability to run Linear Static analysis on assemblies, time-based Motion for mechanism design, Fatigue failure analysis and simulation-driven design Trend Tracker.  It enables a user at any level of the SOLIDWORKS design software to add some essential simulation capabilities to their toolset.





simulation standard features


Linear Static analysis

helps you to validate product performance and safety factors using finite element analysis (FEA) to perform structural simulation.  It is a primary tool to assess the displacement, strain and stress on parts and assemblies.  You can perform analysis of solid bodies, sheet metal parts and weldments of long slender beams all in the same assembly.


static stress analysis



Time-based Motion

allows you to evaluate the performance, using rigid body motion analysis, of assembly mechanisms, and can aid in the sizing of springs, dampers, motors and actuators.  Motion automatically reuses the intelligence built into the assembly mates, and can be combined with defined 3D part contact, to accurately determine the physical movements of an assembly under load using a robust physics-based solver. With the assembly motion calculated, the forces can be transferred directly into a structural analysis to assess the stress of a component due to the motion.

motion analysis in solidworks

Fatigue is the most common type of failure for materials, especially metals, accounting for about 50-90% of all failures and occurs in all industries. 

Fatigue analysis

allows you to design for the durability of your parts for loads it will typically encounter over its life, rather than just for a large catastrophic load that rarely would occur in a worst case scenario.  With this module you can examine two types of repeating loads, cyclic or random, for single or multiple events occurring over a large number (in the thousands or millions) of times over the life of the part.  Using the material S-N curve, it computes the contribution of the events by using Miner’s rule (cyclic) or Rainflow counting (random) to report the total cumulative damage (as a percentage) that the design has undergone, and for a single event will report the predicted life.

fatigue analysis



Trend Tracker

is a very powerful design tools that lets you easily test many design ideas without being restricted to how the changes are made.  Setting the baseline model starts tracking multiple design variables, such as mass and max stress, so that any design iterations are compared back to it and trends can be evaluated by viewing a design journal or trend graphs.  When combined with a Design Insight plot, the Trend Tracker tool gives you another level of understanding of your design that intuition or experience cannot provide.  That’s a lot of bang for your buck!
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trend tracker

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