Altair SimSolid Workshop Training
SimSolid is a game-changing simulation technology for designers and design engineers.
SimSolid is structural analysis software developed specifically for upfront assessment. It eliminates geometry simplification and meshing, the two most time consuming and expertise extensive tasks done in traditional FEA.
Moreover, SimSolid can analyze complex parts and large assemblies not practical with traditional FEA and do it efficiently on a desktop class computer. Both fast and accurate, SimSolid controls solution accuracy using a unique multi-pass adaptive analysis.
SimSolid accelerates product exploration with highly accurate engineering simulation:
- Analyze complex assemblies in seconds to minutes
- Simulate more, prototype less
- Predict product performance for better design decision making
What You'll Learn:
- How SimSolid can help to speed up and eliminate geometry simplification and meshing
- How to set up an analysis in SimSolid to get simulation results in mere seconds
- How to use SimSolid to analyze complex parts and assemblies
- How SimSolid can be used early in the concept design process to shape design changes
Topic: Designer Structural Analysis using SimSolid
Agenda:
1200 ~ 1300 Introduction to SimSolid
1300 ~ 1400 Lunch
1400 ~ 1500 Rapid Analysis with SimSolid
1500 ~ 1515 Break
1515 ~ 1630 Rapid Analysis with SimSolid (cont.)
Why SimSolid
Eliminate Geometry Simplification and Meshing
SimSolid’s unique technology completely eliminates geometry simplification and meshing, the two most time consuming, expertise extensive and error prone tasks done in traditional FEA. With SimSolid, model preparation is done in minutes.
Analyze Complex Parts and Large Assemblies
SimSolid has been designed to analyze complex parts and large assemblies not practical with traditional FEA. SimSolid is tolerant of imprecise geometry. Its assembly connections are industry best at handling ragged contact surfaces with both gaps and overlapping geometry.
Get Results in Seconds to Minutes
SimSolid is fast, real fast. Solution times are typically measured in second to minutes on a standard PC. With SimSolid, multiple design scenarios can be quickly analyzed and compared. And, accuracy can be specified on an individual part level allowing a rapid drill down to any level of detail that is required.
Free Trial
Installation Instructions
Includes the following capabilities:
- Analysis solutions – linear statics, modal, thermal, coupled thermal-stress, material nonlinear, geometric nonlinear, transient dynamics (time, frequency and random response)
- Supported connections – bonded, sliding, virtual connectors, welds (spot, laser and fillet)
- Boundary conditions – immovable, sliding, force, pressure, gravity, thermal, inertia, inertia relief, hydrostatic, bearing, hinge and remote loads
- Additional capabilities – rigid parts, bolt/nut tightening, modal participation factors
- CAD connectivity – Reads all common CAD file formats including: CATIA, NX, PTC/Creo, Inventor, Fusion 360, SOLIDWORKS, SolidEdge, Onshape, JT, STEP, VDA, Parasolid, ACIS, PLMXML, CGR, STL
System Requirements
Installation Instructions
Installation Instructions
Recommended configuration
- Intel I7 based computer; 4-cores (8-threads); 16 GB of memory; OpenGL compatible graphics card
- Microsoft Windows 7, 8.1 or 10 (64-bit only)
To use the direct document integration to Onshape, you must have either a free or paid Onshape account. There will be a one time prompt to authorize SimSolid to access your Onshape account.
To use the SOLIDWORKS add-in, you must have a 2013 through 2018 version of SOLIDWORKS running on a Microsoft Win7, Win8.1 or Win10 64-bit computer system.
Installation Instructions
Installation Instructions
Installation Instructions
- Check computer specs. Before downloading, check to make sure your computer has adequate resources. While SimSolid may run on a wide variety of Windows computers, we recommend the configuration on the left. Please note that it must be a 64-bit OS. SimSolid will not run on the older 32-bit OS flavors.
- Download and run the installer. Download the application installer, unzip it, then double-click to run it and follow the prompts to install SimSolid.
- Activate SimSolid. First time users will need to activate the installation. Simply start SimSolid then pick the appropriate try or buy button and follow the prompts to activate.
- Take a test drive. Access the free trial to try SimSolid with no risk
- Learning resources. View the tutorial videos on our Training Modules page.
- Contribute. We want to hear from you. Get an user ID so that you can post on the SimSolid forum. Got a question, ask it. Got an experience, share it. Got a request to improve SimSolid, ask it. We are excited about SimSolid and its potential but we know there is much to do. Help us, help you get the most productive structural simulation tool for the design process.