SOLIDWORKS SimulationXpress

The SOLIDWORKS SimulationXpress add-in provides first pass testing of your SOLIDWORKS Parts.

SOLIDWORKS SimulationXpress is a built-in first pass design analysis tool included with SOLIDWORKS Standard, SOLIDWORKS Professional and SOLIDWORKS Premium

SOLIDWORKS SimulationXpress is the first and only built-in design verification tool for testing part designs quickly and easily within 3D mechanical design software. SOLIDWORKS SimulationXpress can help you achieve the following objectives:

1. Verify whether your design will work, and if it will behave exactly as you intend. You can determine whether your design places too much load on given components, possibly causing breakage.
2. Quickly investigate the relative merit of a wide range of designs, thereby weeding out the worst designs and highlighting the best. Using design analysis to test your designs is much quicker and less costly than building and testing physical prototypes.
3. Test radical new designs without cutting metal. These might be designs you previously would not have completed because they would be too tedious or time consuming to build and test.

SOLIDWORKS SimulationXpress is suitable for stress analysis of simple parts, giving you the ability to simulate the effect of force or pressure loads on those parts. Once you have your stress results, SOLIDWORKS SimulationXpress can generate HTML reports and create SOLIDWORKS eDrawings files to document and communicate the results of the analysis. For SOLIDWORKS users who need additional functionality, it is easy to upgrade from SOLIDWORKS SimulationXpress to SOLIDWORKS Simulation Standard.

Features and Benefits of SOLIDWORKS SimulationXpress

With SOLIDWORKS SimulationXpress you can:

• Perform a first-pass design check on simple SOLIDWORKS parts.
• Determine the factor of safety of your parts.
• Easily document and share your results with HTML reports and SOLIDWORKS eDrawings Viewer.
• Enjoy the benefits of design simulation and analysis free inside SOLIDWORKS.
• Easily upgrade to SOLIDWORKS Simulation Standard if additional functionality is needed.

What are the differences between SOLIDWORKS SimulationXpress and SOLIDWORKS Simulation Standard?

Several bundles of SOLIDWORKS Simulation software are available. SOLIDWORKS Simulation is the natural upgrade from SOLIDWORKS SimulationXpress. The following table compares the functionality of SOLIDWORKS SimulationXpress to SOLIDWORKS Simulation:

Capability	SOLIDWORKS SimulationXpress	SOLIDWORKS Simulation Standard
Geometry Types
Part analysis
Assembly analysis
Thin parts, sheet metal parts, shells
Analysis Types
Stress & Displacement
Thermal Stress
Contact analysis in assemblies with friction
Fluid Flow (SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation)		add-on
Motion Simulation (SOLIDWORKS Motion)		add-on
Usability
Multiple Studies, “what if scenarios”
Parameters & Design Tables
Customizable Material Library
Evironments (Loads/Restraints)
Uniform pressure & force on faces
Fixed restraints on faces
Directional & non-uniform pressure & force
Force on edges and vertices
Body loads: gravity & centrifugal
Special loads: torque, remote, bearing
Fixed restraints on edges & vertices
Directional and prescribed restraints
Temperature, convection, radiation, heat power
Assembly Connectors
Springs, Elastic Foundation
Pin, Bolts, Rigid, Spot Weld
Visualization
Stress plot, deformation, displacement plot
Factor of safety calculation and plot
Principal stress, directional stress, strain plots
Result probing, listings
Dynamic section, iso plots
Scaled plots, superimposed plots, customizations
Engineering Collaboration
HTML report
Publish SOLIDWORKS eDrawings of analysis results
Animation and save as AVI
Detailed HTML report customizations
Save as bitmap, JPEG, VRML, XGL