Part II: Building Intelligence into Your Parts
Tip
My experience with the early versions of SimulationXpress in SolidWorks 2010 sp0.0 has been that much of the
tool did not work properly the first time. It took several tries to get a material to apply, the loads appeared to
be applied incorrectly, and the initial screen did not appear when I first started the software. n
Running the analysis
Analyzing simple parts on modern computers usually takes a matter of seconds. Because
SimulationXpress is limited to single parts, most analyses you run will not take very long. You
need to make sure that you have green check marks to the right of Fixtures, Loads, and Material
before you can run the analysis. Figure 11.20 shows the analysis of this part in the process of
running.FIGURE 11.20Running the analysis
Visualizing the results
SimulationXpress makes three different types of results available to you:l (^) vonMises stress plot
l Displacement plot
l Factor of Safety (FOS) plot