COSMOSWorks

Use COSMOSWorks® Designer to improve product quality by identifying areas that are prone to weakness and failure. You can also lower costs by trimming excess material and minimizing the need for physical prototypes.

Compare alternative designs easily and quickly

Go beyond simple hand calculations and study different design confi gurations created with SolidWorks® software and choose the optimal design for final production.
• Study stress, strain, and displacement in parts and assemblies.
• Define analysis inputs such as material, loads, and geometric dimensions using parameters.
• Drag and drop to create and clone analysis studies.

Study the interaction between different assembly components

COSMOSWorks Designer provides powerful tools to study and optimize assemblies of all sizes.
• Bond components with clearances or gaps, without modifi cation.
• Identify contact forces, stresses, and friction for parts that may
come into contact during operation.

Simulate real-world operating conditions

COSMOSWorks Designer includes several loads and restraints to represent real-life situations.
• Apply bearing loads, forces, pressures, and torque.
• Transfer forces and restraints from remote locations to parts or assemblies.
• Simulate the effects of gravity forces or forces due to rotation (centrifugal force).
Automate analysis tasks. Automation tools simplify the analysis process to help you work more effi ciently.
• Mesh both parts and assemblies with custom meshing tools (such as mesh transitioning and local mesh controls) and mesh failure diagnostics tools.
• Converge to accurate solutions by automatically refi ning and/or coarsening mesh in local areas.

Interpret analysis results with powerful and intuitive visualization tools

After the analysis is complete, results visualization tools provide valuable insight into the performance of your models.
• Study the distribution of result quantities with 3D contour plots (including stress, strain, deformed shape, displacement, energy, error, strain energy, density, and reaction force).
• Determine the factor of safety using the Design Check Wizard.

Collaborate and share analysis results

Now it’s easy to collaborate and share analysis results effectively with everyone involved in the product development process.
• Generate reports in HTML and Microsoft® Word format.
• Save result plots in VRML, XGL, BMP, and JPEG and export result
animations as AVI fi les.

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