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SolidWorks Motion Overview Usergroup Presentation
By Gabriel Davila
Business Development Manager at CADspace
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Contents
Overview of SolidWorks Motion (5 mins)
Licensing what Motion do you have?
Types of Motion Analysis (5 mins)
When to use a particular module? (5mins)
Examples (30 mins)
Summary (5 mins)
Q & A
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Overview of SolidWorks Motion
Was originally integrated as COSMOS (H2 2003)
COSMOSWorks
COSMOSMotion
COSMOSFloWorks
COSMOSXpress
Interface changes (2003 2008)
Evaluate how your product will behave over a period of time, how it will interact
with other components and retrieve useful information such as Force, Torque,
path of motion, etc.
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Licensing what Motion do you have?
Physical Dynamics All Versions of SolidWorks
Animator All version of SolidWorks
SolidWorks Basic Motion All versions of SolidWorks
SolidWorks Motion Analysis SolidWorks Premium and Up
SolidWorks Even Based Motion Analysis SolidWorks Simulation Professional
and Up
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Types of Motion Analysis
Other types
Physical
Dynamics
Event Based
Motion
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Types of Motion Analysis
Solvers
Animator - 3DDCM (3D Dimensional Constraint Manager) from D-Cubed
Basic Motion - Ageia PhysX
SolidWorks Basic Motion focuses on making the simulation look real
Motion Analysis - ADAMS/solver
With this solver, SolidWorks Motion Analysis focuses on analyzing accurately the forces,
torques, contact forces, power consumption, etc. in your mechanism.
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When to use a particular module?
Animator
Rotate
Explode
Collapse
Interpolate between two points
Using Motors for movement
When Mass and Gravity are
not important
Basic Motion
Approximates effects motors,
Springs
Gravity
Collisions by adding contacts
between bodies
Calculates the animation
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When to use a particular module?
SolidWorks Motion
Accurately simulate motors
Forces
Springs
Dampers
Friction
Calculates using strong
Kinematic Solvers
Exports to SolidWorks
Simulation
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Examples
Physical Dynamics Hinge Example
Animation Interpolate between two points
Basic Motion Dropping balls into container separator
Motion Analysis Catapult Example
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Summary
3 Different types of Motion Analysis (not including Physical Dynamics or Event
Based Motion)
We can extract important information from Motion Analysis
Everyone has access to Basic Motion so start using it to create realistic
analysis
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Questions
