Export Results to SOLIDWORKS Simulation

You can export absolute total pressure and static temperature (gas temperature near the model wall as well as solid temperature) results from Flow Simulation to SOLIDWORKS® Simulation so that static and buckling studies can be conducted for a structural design analysis of your device.

Restriction:

You can export results to SOLIDWORKS Simulation version 2004 or higher.

SOLIDWORKS Simulation is a third-party finite-element structural analysis software.

Note:

Note, that pressure is not exported on faces used as pressure opening or flow inlet or outlet.

Procedure

Click Tools > Flow Simulation > Tools > Export Results to Simulation .
Flow Simulation will traverse over all model surfaces and make the fluid parameters available for SOLIDWORKS Simulation.
Save the model.
You must save the model each time you export results. When you perform exporting results, no export file is created but the model itself is modified.

Results

Note:

In fact, while exporting, Flow Simulation simply marks surfaces that will be used by SOLIDWORKS Simulation for importing the fluid analysis results. Thus, you can perform this operation before the calculation but make sure that all surface related conditions (boundary conditions, fans, sources, etc.) and component related conditions (component control settings, initial conditions, etc.) do not change the reference surface after exporting is done (e.g. you can change the value of the boundary condition but not the surface where it is applied).

For more information about SOLIDWORKS® Simulation see www.solidworks.com.