Licensing Updates

Functionality that was available only with SOLIDWORKS Simulation Professional and SOLIDWORKS Simulation Premium licenses is now available with SOLIDWORKS Simulation Standard licenses.

  • Automatic detection of underconstrained bodies. The Automatically detect underconstrained bodies option that you access from the System Options - General dialog box is available for all SOLIDWORKS Simulation licenses.

    When you select Automatically detect underconstrained bodies, the solver detects bodies that are not sufficiently constrained during simulation and can exhibit translational or rotational rigid body modes if the model is unstable. The automatic detection of rigid bodies is available for linear static studies.

  • Advanced bonding and contact algorithms. Improved memory estimate, allocation, and management by the solver allows the completion of large surface-to-surface bonded and contact interaction sets that previously failed because of insufficient memory.
  • Function-based communication. Passing data to the equation solvers FFEPlus and Large Problem Direct Sparse is more efficient for all licenses. Function-based data communication through memory usage replaces file-based communication.