Has anyone experimented with the license borrowing utility in SW2005? I know that it allows you to check out a license, and then work off the network (works great for a laptop.) My question is if there is any way to borrow a license, and then use on a different computer - like my desktop...
You might also want to look at "easier" to use CFD packages, like CFDesign from Blue Ridge Numerics. No, it doesn't have all of the capabilities of a package like Fluent or Star-CD. However, it is MUCH easier to use, and cheaper. It has a great interface to Pro-E and SolidWorks, and has great...
Just to second Nick, you can definitely run load and geometry cases in Cosmos. Just ran something overnight with 27 different geometry tweaks (playing with the effect of 3 different dimensions.) But don't plan on using your computer for anything else while the run is going.
Brett
Just got word from our VAR that they are postponing their "What's new in SW 2005" by a month, due to SolidWorks delaying the release of 2005 to the end of August. Doesn't make me want to be one of the early adapters of the new release, as must mean they are still ironing out some major bugs.
Not that I agree with changing filenames with revisions (we use PDM here), but you can use SolidWorks Explorer (located in the tools menu) to rename files. SW explorer will make sure that all assemblies (only in that directory or its subdirectories, I think!) that refer to the renamed part have...
If you've done much FEA, you've seen a "conformal" mesh. Basically, the old Flotherm and IcePak mesh was purely nonconformal rectangular - so if you had a round object, the mesh would not rotate to better match the geometry. Also, the grid "bleeds" out though the entire extent - if you have a...
I've got some experience with CFD packages for electronic cooling. I've used FloTherm briefly a few years (and versions ago). Back then it only had a non-conformal, rectangular grid, which I was very unimpressed with, though they might have changed since then. Have also used IcePak - at the...
I think you need the Cosmos/Works Professional package, which is the most basic one besides CosmosExpress (free in SolidWorks). I think cost is about $7k, not including training and annual maintance.
That's can be a pretty involved problem, depending on how complicated the geometry is. You should be able to do it using some standard equations, but anything complicated will need CFD. The easiest thing to calculate is the outlet air temperature: Air temperature rise = (heat added to air)/ [...
Does anyone know how to get a quantity of AR (for "as required") to show up on a solidworks BOM? This would be for things like epoxy, solder, heatshrink, etc - consumables. I have our BOM templates set up to show things like our part #, description, etc. (all tied to PDM), and would...
And another option - use Ansys with SolidWorks. Ansys now has a pretty decent interface with SW that is worth checking out. So if you do decide to go to SW, probably worth your time to get an evaluation copy of both Ansys and Cosmos to see which you like better.
Have had the same problem - the instructor in the PDMWorks class I took a month ago had the same problem when showing something to the class! Only solution I know of is to restart SW.
I'm certainly not an expert on this, but I've always seen english torque values expressed in "distance"-"force", such as in-lbs and foot-lbs. Of course, metric seems to be the exact opposition of this, with N-m.
I don't know about the most common, but I've used Ansys with Solidworks, and it is a nice interface. One of the key things to me (from my standpoint as a Design Engineer, others may disagree) about a good interface between CAD and FEA is the ability to parameterize geometry in the FEA software...
