Showing posts with label assembly commandmanager. Show all posts
Showing posts with label assembly commandmanager. Show all posts

April 3, 2018

WHY YOU SHOULD BE SUBMODELING USING SOLIDWORKS SIMULATION ?


SOLIDWORKS Simulation comes with powerful virtual testing environment that helps product engineers in efficiently evaluating structural product performance under a variety of physical scenarios.

Furthermore, SOLIDWORKS Simulation is fully embedded within SOLID WORKS 3D CAD and therefore enables engineers to evaluate products mechanical resistance, natural frequencies, product durability as well as test heat transfer and buckling instabilities.

Submodeling is based on the St. Venant's principle. The St. Venant's principle states that the stresses on a boundary reasonably distant from an applied load are not significantly altered if this load is changed to a statically equivalent load. The distribution of stress and strain is altered only near the regions of load application.

Talking about Submodeling, it offers a swift and easy way of zooming in on a component of interest. Because it creates a sub-study using displacement results of the parent study while isolating the part you need to be focusing on, it renders ease of operation with quick results.


You can use Submodeling on SOLIDWORKS Simulation to the fullest by removing away the rest of the assembly which may not be required anymore and use finer mesh for gaining accurate results, more so without raising the solution time.

Submodeling is available in Simulation Professional and above and requires a parent study. It comes with plenty of advantages, and it is the optimal way to gain quick results that are high in quality.

Being a fundamental component of SOLIDWORKS Simulation, Submodeling is a necessity to learn and understand. When in Toronto, you have the benefit of receiving the required training at FEA Training Consultants, which has the award-winning certified instructors with years of experience. The instructors brilliantly cover the entire process from meshing to results evaluation for parts and assemblies. 


March 3, 2014

Smart Mates - SolidWorks 2013 vs SolidWorks 2014

 
SMART MATES
The SmartMates functionality saves time by allowing you to create commonly-used mates without using the Mate PropertyManager.
To use the SmartMates command in SolidWorks 2013 and older version of SolidWorks, you can access it from Move Component on the Assembly toolbar. In the PropertyManager, under Move, click SmartMates as shown below

 
To do the mates you need to double-click a component and then click a valid mate partner. As shown below when you double-click the first component it becomes transparent indicating Smart Mate.
Now we select the other mating component and the Mate pop-up toolbar appears as shown below.
 
 
We can do the same procedure for the other mate. Double click the first component and then select the other mating component.
 
The mate toolbar pops up as shown below.
 
You can include the SmartMates command when customizing the Assembly toolbar or the Assembly CommandManager as shown below.
To include the SmartMates command in the CommandManager:
1. Open an assembly.
2. Click Tools > Customize, or right-click the CommandManager and select Customize.
3. On the Commands tab, select Assembly.
4. Drag the SmartMates command to the Assembly CommandManager, and click OK.