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When running a simulation study on an assembly in SOLIDWORKS Simulation, you may need to view the effects of your simulation on a specific part or parts for the simulation plot you are interested in. Some examples may be that parts of the assembly are covering the part that you wish to quickly analyze, or you may want to specifically show what happens to a specific part in a simulation report you are generating for a presentation. This article discusses two approaches to isolate and show the simulation results for a single part.

Previously, we walked through how to create a helix in SOLIDWORKS. The logical next step would be to use that helix to cut threads. Now, let's walk through how to make threads in SOLIDWORKS. We'll cover a simple threadmaking exercise and create our own custom threads.

A corrupted file is a file that unexpectedly becomes unusable. A file consists of many files streams which store different kinds of information. In the context of SOLIDWORKS, a corrupted file is a file in which one or more file streams become damaged enough to render the data (as a whole) unreadable. Damage to a file stream becomes apparent when you try to open or save a file.

This article addresses why SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation will give a warning while solving stating that there is a vortex occurring across a pressure boundary as well as methods of how to accommodate for this to remove the warning.

As a SOLIDWORKS Simulation technical support specialist, I see many very complicated assemblies on which customers are attempting to perform a SOLIDWORKS Simulation; that, at times, will not mesh because of a phenomenon called volumetric interferences. 

 

A helix is one of the common shapes that you'll need to create in SOLIDWORKS. They let you create uniform profiles for cutting threads. But there are two kinds of helixes in SOLIDWORKS: constant pitched and variable pitched. Let's walk through how to create a helix in SOLIDWORKS and go over the different settings.

SOLIDWORKS Simulation has a report generator that makes great looking Word document reports on the user's current Simulation study. These reports come complete with all the relevant information that the user would like to include from their Simulation model, and are generated very quickly. Even though the report generation option can save a lot of time and headache, there are still several annoying aspects of generating a report in SOLIDWORKS Simulation.

In this post, I’m going to help you replace a SOLIDWORKS model in a drawing view or in all model views all at once. Not only that, but following these simple steps, you can replace a part model with an assembly model or vice versa. First, we’ll replace a part with another part.

 

 

This case study compares SOLIDWORKS Simulation results on a model as analyzed by beam and solid element types. Beam-type elements are defined by a single line representing the path of a beam with the cross-sectional moment of inertia applied only as a theoretical calculation along that path. Solid-type elements, in this case, are tetrahedrons that generate in place of all modeled geometry acting as a 1:1 representation.