Opening the Model

First, you activate your licenses and add in the required apps. Then you open the model and examine some components.

You must have licenses for SOLIDWORKS Simulation Professional or higher and SOLIDWORKS Motion to complete this tutorial.
  1. To make sure that your licenses are active, click Help > Licenses > Activate.
    In the dialog box, for Product, you must have SOLIDWORKS, SOLIDWORKS Simulation, and SOLIDWORKS Motion.
  2. In the dialog box:
    1. Click Select All to select all products.
    2. For Contact Information, enter your email.
    3. Click Next.
    The Product Activation dialog box reports the results and your products are activated. These licenses let you use a Motion Analysis study to calculate the motion of an assembly that incorporates event-based motion control.
  3. Click Finish.
  4. Click Tools > Add-Ins.
  5. Under Active Add-Ins, select SOLIDWORKS Motion and SOLIDWORKS Simulation, then click OK.
    From Start Up, you can click SOLIDWORKS Motion and SOLIDWORKS Simulation to add them each time you start up SOLIDWORKS.
  6. Download, extract, and open the required sample file for this tutorial:
    1. Click here to download motionstudies.zip to your Downloads folder.
      For more information on downloading and managing sample files, see Sample Files.
    2. Browse to the Downloads folder and extract motionstudies.zip to a convenient location.
      For example, to organize your tutorial sample files, create a folder in your Documents folder named tutorial_files. Then extract into that folder to create a subfolder named motionstudies that contains the SOLIDWORKS parts for the motion studies tutorial.
    3. In the motionstudies\weldingrobot folder, open weldingrobot.SLDASM.
  7. Select the Motion Study 1 tab.

    Notice there are four linear motors listed in the MotionManager and one sensor listed under the Sensors folder in the FeatureManager design tree.

    Motion study features include motors, forces, springs, dampers, contact, and results. You configure motion study features from the tools on the MotionManager toolbar.

  8. For Type of Study, select Motion Analysis.


    The event-based motion task schedule appears.