The material database, or material palette, is the repository for all solid and fluid materials typically associated with structural or fluid analyses. Out of the box, the material database of the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform is empty. To best represent your use case, we recommend creating custom materials based on your material data sheets or material test data.
A beam analysis represents structural members as 1D line elements, with a set of section properties applied to represent the beam’s stiffness. Users benefit from this analysis in a massive reduction in computation time, but downsides are larger assumptions (and thus less detailed results) and more manual setup time.
When a SOLIDWORKS part file, multibody part file, or assembly fails to mesh, there are a series of troubleshooting steps we can take. Failed mesh usually occurs due to one of three reasons. The mesh can fail for broken or interfering geometry. Use Tools > Evaluate > Check to test for sliver faces, or invalid faces or edges.
A singularity is a function’s divergence into infinity. Simulation occasionally produces stress (or heat flux) singularities. In this article, we discuss avoiding singularities in SOLIDWORKS Simulation and how and why they occur. How do they singularities occur? Mathematically, the solver uses matrices to represent the elastic field (displacements of the elements).
Complex features, like physically modeled threads, increase the rebuild times of SOLIDWORKS part files. Table 1 shows the rebuild times on a simple part with a thread created using multiple methods. This document will prove these rebuild times and explain the various methods used to create these threads.