The 3DEXPERIENCE Works portfolio provdies SOLIDWORKS customers with entry to many highly effective software program purposes, lots of which aren’t accessible on the desktop alone. These superior simulation purposes may also help SOLIDWORKS customers evolve their use of simulation past validating designs to driving the design itself utilizing simulation.
Within the video beneath, you will notice how 3DEXPERIENCE Works Simulation purposes can simply be built-in right into a SOLIDWORKS consumer’s workflow by permitting them to import their current libraries of customized SOLIDWORKS supplies into the 3DEXPERIENCE platform as native 3DEXPERIENCE core supplies. These 3DEXPERIENCE core supplies have properties outlined not just for SOLIDWORKS Simulation but additionally for the simulation apps within the 3DEXPERIENCE Works portfolio.
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On this video, I first discuss Core and Masking supplies on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform. A 3DEXPERIENCE Core materials is analogous to a SOLIDWORKS materials. It defines the bodily properties of the fabric (issues reminiscent of density, elastic modulus, poisson’s ratio…). A Core materials is required to run a simulation. A 3DEXPERIENCE Masking materials is analogous to a SOLIDWORKS look. A Masking materials defines what the mannequin seems like or what covers the mannequin. Take into account an aluminum half lined with blue powder coat paint. You’d outline the blue powder coat ache as a Masking materials. These supplies are utilized by all 3DEXPERIENCE platform purposes to outline the bodily and visible properties of your designs.
After reviewing Core and Masking supplies we are going to have a look at the Materials Definition utility, which is used to outline the simulation area of a Core Materials. The appliance is included with many roles on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, e.g. the roles specializing in simulation. Within the instance used on this video, Materials Definition is accessed via the SIMULIA Structural Designer function. It’s within the Materials Definition utility you can create a brand new 3DEXPERIENCE Core or Masking materials. It is usually via the Materials Definition utility you can import SOLIDWORKS supplies databases (within the *.sldmat format) to create 3DEXPERIENCE Core supplies with a simulation area.
To permit for full utilization of those supplies throughout all simulation purposes, accessed by SOLIDWORKS customers, each the SOLIDWORKS Simulation materials properties and their corresponding Abaqus materials properties are written to the simulation area of the Core supplies created throughout import. Abaqus is the identify of the SIMULIA solver, or engine, behind SIMULIA’s highly effective 3DEXPERIENCE Works Portfolio structural simulation purposes.
The final a part of the video exhibits how the newly imported customized SOLIDWORKS supplies can be utilized to simply run a simulation within the Linear Structural Validation utility (SIMULIA’S structural simulation app included within the 3DEXPERIENCE Works Structural Designer function).
You will need to be aware that these supplies imported to the 3DEXPERIENCE platform could be utilized in all purposes that use Core supplies with a simulation area. This contains SOLIDWORKS 3DEXPERIENCE Linked. To have the ability to apply 3DEXPERIENCE Core supplies in SOLIDWORKS 3DEXPERIENCE Linked, an administrator in your tenant might want to comply with the “Mastered Supplies” workflow. It will deploy all 3DEXPERIENCE Core supplies into the 3DEXPERIENCE Supplies.sldmat database in SOLIDWORKS. When a cloth from the 3DEXPERIENCE Supplies.sldmat database is utilized to a SOLIDWORKS mannequin, that mannequin will likely be linked to the corresponding Core materials on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform.
You’ll be able to discover all of our Simulation options right here. You can even be taught extra about simulation by attending breakout classes throughout our upcoming consumer occasion, 3DEXPERIENCE World 2023 in Nashville, February 12-15. Click on right here to register or click on on the banner beneath.
Marlon Banta has been with Dassault Systèmes SOLIDWORKS since 2003. He has a few years’ expertise within the mechanical CAD trade as a consumer and has been a product definition engineer for 2 CAD firms (together with SOLIDWORKS).
