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SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation allows users to automate the change of flow and/or model parameters to investigate the influence of these changes on the flow behavior of the system. This type of automation can be done through the creation of a Parametric Study. 

 

A file type defines the format that the file is written in, the file extension, indicates this format. SOLIDWORKS PDM Admins can use SOLIDWORKS PDM to control what to do with files types. Such as determining who can view the file, or automatically placing the file in a workflow, etc. 

 

Have you ever wanted to isolate part files in SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation cut plots as you can easily do in SOLIDWORKS Simulation plots? It is possible to do this in Flow Simulation but requires a bit of a workaround. This workaround works best with the flow variables that have “Solid” after them.

 

The following steps will show you how to set up a SOLIDWORKS PDM search shortcut on your desktop. You can create a shortcut to any search, but for this example, I’m going to show you how to create a shortcut to one of my most used searches, ECN search.

SOLIDWORKS Simulation 2017 gave users the ability to take an existing static study and create a new nonlinear or linear dynamic study by copying their existing static study to one of those study types. If the simulation setup is valid, then all boundary conditions and loads will be copied straight over to the new study. If any loads or boundary conditions fail to copy over to the new study due to limitations in the software, then a warning will pop up. 

 

There are several ways to customize your SOLIDWORKS drawing view. In this article, we'll show you three ways that are quick and easy: rotate view, create a view, and create a custom view. 

 

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. 

It can be very difficult to diagnose why SOLIDWORKS is crashing even when the crash has an obvious pattern to it. If the crashing happens randomly then the diagnostic difficulties increase exponentially. Unless we can diagnose why SOLIDWORKS is crashing we will not be able to fix the problem. There is a great option that is part of the SOLIDWORKS package called SOLIDWORKS Rx Problem Capture Videos which can be used to diagnose crashes.

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).