CAPINC's What's New in SOLIDWORKS Simulation 2015 - This presentation highlights all of the new features and functions found in the latest product, SOLIDWORKS Simulation. Download the full presentation for detailed presenter notes on the new software!

1. Coming up next:
Keith Pedersen
Principal Applications Engineer

2. RIGHT NOW ! ! !
Keith Pedersen
Principal Applications Engineer

3.  Ease of Use
 Advancing computer science
 Larger models
 Better intermix of mesh types
 Better input controls and diagnostics
 More advanced study types
 Interoperability between types of
studies, and their supported types of
features
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4. 1) Watch your Non-Linear results
while they cook!
 In: Simulation Premium
 Need: To turn this option ON via:
Simulation – Options – Default Options - Results
2) Run any number of selected studies
in batch mode
 Prior ‘batch mode’ would only
run ALL studies
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5. 3) Cyclic Symmetry – now for Non-Linear
 In: Simulation Premium
 Was already in: Sim Core & Sim Professional
 Results plots can depict the full-round model
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6. 4) Load Case Manager – Why?
 Remember “Pressure Vessel Design” study ?
▪ Was new in 2008
▪ Good for meeting ASME BPVC Section IV, CPS-9, blah blah blah
 Turns out, that study type is really cool
▪ Linear Superposition of results for 2 or more other studies,
times their load factors.
▪ This runs really, really (really) fast.
▪ Makes child’s play out of a large number of directional-variation
studies
 But, (was) only available
in Sim Professional
or Sim Premium
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7. 4) Load Case Manager – How now?
 Create a linear study with ALL your loads
 Table-driven control over load and fixtures
▪ Turn them on /off
▪ Change magnitudes
▪ Compound load cases by assembling an equation
 Compound cases are solved normally
▪ Add sensors for comparing tabulated results
▪ Activate any case for full post-processing
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8.  Better display of what worked, what
didn’t, in the Mesh Diagnostic panel
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9.  Better display in Mesh Diagnostic panel
 “Recent” materials list is now a user-controlled
“Favorite” menu - no need to
navigate the Materials D.B. dialog
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10.  Better display in Mesh Diagnostic panel
 User-defined material Favorites
 Cylindrical and Polar coordinates for:
Non-uniform Forces & Pressures
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11.  Better display in Mesh Diagnostic panel
 User-defined material Favorites
 Cylindrical and Polar coordinate equations
 Prescribed Displacements now appear
within the LOADS folder
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12.  Better display in Mesh Diagnostic panel
 User-defined material Favorites
 Cylindrical and Polar coordinate equations
 Prescribed Displacements within LOADS
 More plot color-band options for the color-blind
(red/green
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13. Self-Contact
 2004 – only contact between Parts (in Assemblies)
 Then, could contact between Part Bodies
 Then, contact within 1 body (but split faces)
 Now, self-contact allowed on a single face
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14. Shell Bonding
 Can now bond shells edge-to-edge..,
 and they don’ t have to touch.
 Uses ‘incompatible mesh’ mortar-style bond
 Now the location of the shell (outer face, inner
face, mid-thickness, etc.) is less critical
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15. The Contact visualization plot
 See which ones worked, which didn’t
 Distinguish auto-bonding from manual
 See the true element bonding areas
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16. Review and Edit many shells at once!
 Column-sort by any parameter
 Color Code by Thickness, Material
 Multi-select & Edit all shell parameters
 Preview thickness directions
 Create your own groups – for gang editing!
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17.  New: INTEL Direct Sparse solver
 For: Static, Thermal, Frequency, NonLinear, &
Linear Dynamics
 For larger problems
 Has better memory allocation and multi-core
usage, as long as job stays in-core.
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18.  New: INTEL Direct Sparse
 Faster Bonding & Contact pre-processing
 FFE Plus: faster when there are Connectors,
Bonding, or no-penetration sets
 FFE and Sparse – 5x to 9x faster, when there
are multi sheet metal bodies
 Faster-Running FFE-Plus
 When using connectors or Contact sets
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19.  Simulation Professional: 3 new plot types
 Frequency vs mode number
 Mass participation vs frequency
 Cumulative mass participation vs Frequency
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20.  Existing Fatigue:
 for Simulation Professional & Premium
 Combines cyclic (or random) quasi-static events
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21.  Existing Fatigue: (first 2 icons, below)
 for Simulation Professional & Premium
 Combines cyclic (or random) quasi-static events
 New Fatigue:
 For Simulation Premium only
 Uses events from Linear Dynamics
 Cyclic, or Random (PSD) loading
 Different S-N material profile (Basquin’s Rule)
 Plots: Life remaining, time-to-failure, and
Percent damage
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22. Different solver, same color-scheme:
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Principal Applications Engineer

23. Multi-Cavity mold symmetry
 2-way, 4-way, or rotational symmetry
 So much time savings, better accuracy,
▪ Vs. model/mesh/solve the entire system
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24. Survey part wall thickness
 plot absolute thickness,
 or % relative to nominal
Now computes venting pressure !
 PLOT – finds the best placement of gates, or vents, to
prevent diesel burns; then,
 INPUT – the VENT
(a new boundary condition)
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25. New Mesh Type !
 Non-Orthogonal Voxels
 Voxels = Fast! But, chunky. Poor surface resolution.
 Also more accurate for interior, thick-section flow
 (For best resolution of surface flow along thin parts – still
use the Surface mesher)
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26. Other mesh improvements
 Better control over volume-meshed runners
 New inputs: Ring Count, Cut Count, & Length Ratio
 Set min # elements (thru-thickness)
 For the Tetrahedral mesher
Export 3-D Plastics plots to E-Drawings
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27. Navier and Stokes would be so proud…
Keith Pedersen
Principal Applications Engineer

28. Pack-n-Go: Now collects the Flow results, too.
New Goals available as ‘Global’ (in External studies)
 Mass, Energy, and Momentum balances
 Were already available in Internal studies
Flow solver does not lock the CAD session
 Work on other CAD files, while a solve running
 Can prep other Flow studies as well
Commercial filters added to the porous media database
Transient Analysis improved
 Runs faster
 Can set a hard-stop goal (Good for soak-out transients)
 Time-averaged goal plots can now also be saved
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29. COMPARE RESULTS
Was new in 2013 -
 Compare results across multiple Studies / Configurations
 Side-by-side display of color-plot results, or;
 (single-valued) Goals plotted side-by-side, or in one table
2015 adds support of array-valued results
 Can now compare X-Y Parameter plots
 Goal plots merged into one: Bar, Line, or history graph
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30. Rotating flow regions available since 1998, but;
 Inflow always had to be along the rotation axis
 Outflows were assumed to be radially symmetric
 The geometry (and mesh) are static, and;
 The incident airflow is what rotates
 Would miss blade-stator ‘passing’ effects
Now (optionally) use a Moving Mesh
 For time-dependent studies only
 More broadly applicable
 More accurate edge effects
 Better cycle-averaging of reported goals
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31. FEA SimElation
 Load-Case manager
 Shell Contacts, & Shell Manager
 Solvers – Better, Faster, Stronger
Plastics
 Venting
 Non-Ortho Voxel mesher
Flow
 Solve the flow, keep working in the CAD
 Rotating Mesh !!! (watch this space in the future…)
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32. Keith Pedersen
Principal Applications Engineer

33. The End