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There is a little known & used option to show Mates and Dependencies instead of Features for components in an assembly tree. Typically, people wonder why to view an assembly in this manner. However, if you work with mates at all, this view could be your new best friend.

A Stress-Strain Curve in SOLIDWORKS Nonlinear Analysis is a graph of user-defined stress and strain data points that make a graph that the Nonlinear Analysis program can use to obtain a lot of useful information. Information like the yield point of the material (which should always be the very first point in any SOLIDWORKS Simulation Stress-Strain Curve), material strength, ductility, formability, elastic modulus, etc. In fact, only the Poisson’s ratio (NUXY) is taken from the Material dialog box once a Stress/Strain Curve has been defined for a material.

You have decided to start using SOLIDWORKS PDM to manage your CAD data. Previously, you may have been using folders in Windows or another PDM software. So, now you want to move all of your CAD files into PDM. What tools are available to help you? What is the best procedure to use? In this document, I will be giving an overview of the three methods to bring already existing files into PDM.

Have you installed SOLIDWORKS Electrical and made all of the connections, and just can’t figure out why Electrical will just not connect? This document will walk you through how to set up the ODBC database connection which is the gateway to your SQL Server connection.

SOLIDWORKS Simulation first calculates displacements of all the nodes in the mesh. The strains are then calculated, and the last stresses for each element in the mesh are calculated. Stresses are calculated at specific points within each mesh called Gaussian or quadrature points.  After the Gaussian point has been calculated for an element, the program calculates the nodal stress for each element by extrapolation. 

 

In this article, we go over in detail each of the twelve CAMWorks milling features as well as all of their allowable operations. A Pocket is a recessed area surrounded by walls on all sides. CAMWorks distinguishes between Rectangular, Circular, Irregular, and Obround shaped pockets. The tool will stay within bounds of the feature. Pockets are defined by faces, edges, or closed, non-intersecting sketches.

Meshing plays an important role regarding the accuracy of a SOLIDWORKS Simulation analysis. The linear static study module includes an option that allows for the solver to adapt the mesh during the solution in regions of the model with high strain energy errors. This results in a more accurate solution with little user input. There are two types of solution adaptive mesh refinement methods that can be used: h-adaptive and p-adaptive. This guide will cover the differences between the two methods and how to enable them.

 

 

CircuitWorks includes basic support for SOLIDWORKS PDM, enabling it to search the SOLIDWORKS Vault for components to use in the assemblies it builds. This article explains how the integration works and how to configure SOLIDWORKS PDM and CircuitWorks to work correctly.

 

You can perform a lot of functions and get a good amount of information about SOLIDWORKS files directly from Windows Explorer without ever opening SOLIDWORKS. We are going to look at Functions, and Information you can access inside Windows Explorer.