Solve tough design problems...

Raise the quality of your products while you reduce costs for live prototypes and testing.

SolidWorks Simulation lets you test products for defects before they’re built, helping prevent errors early in the design process. It's powerful enough for trained FEA analysts, yet easy enough for product designers. SolidWorks Simulation opens in the SolidWorks user interface, so there's no need to launch multiple applications. You can subject your designs to the same conditions they'll face in the real world, including stress, impact, heat, airflow, and more. There's no need to wait until a product has been manufactured to start testing, or go through multiple physical prototypes.
You can use SolidWorks Simulation to answer questions such as:

• will moving parts clash or interfere with one another?
• how much weight can a product carry?
• how much will a part deform under specific stresses?
• will heat and air circulate through the design properly?
• will it survive a fall?

Core Simulation capabilities are included with every license of SolidWorks Premium, and additional capabilities can be added as you need them. Three upgrades are available: Simulation Professional, Simulation Premium, and Flow Simulation.

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