SOLIDWORKS Simulation 2025 – What's New

 SOLIDWORKS Simulation:

1. General Spring Connector: 
• Easily create custom spring connectors between surfaces by defining axial only, isotropic, or orthotropic springs.
• Improve simulation performance and accuracy by adding custom compliance.
Benefits: Achieve easier, more realistic simulation setups with the new spring connector capabilities.

2. Enhanced Pin Connector:
• Improve the solution performance of all studies when using the distributed Connection Type for pin connectors.
Benefits: Increase the accuracy of simulation studies using the improved pin connector.

3. Enhanced Handling of Large Models:
• Accelerate study setup times with the new UI option to exclude everything except selected bodies. 
• Concentrate on what is important by removing parts or bodies excluded from the simulation study.
Benefits: Easily set up large models and select boundary conditions with a clean display.

4. Enhanced Node-to-Surface Bonded Interactions with Offset:
• Avoid gaps between surfaces in Mid Surface mesh studies. 
• Enhanced offset bonded interaction to improve contact results accuracy for linear static, linear dynamic, frequency, buckling, fatigue, design scenario, and pressure vessel studies. 
Benefits: Perform more accurate simulation studies and solve faster.

5. Enhanced Surface-to-Surface Bonded Interactions:
• Improve the accuracy and performance of cylindrical, spherical, and conical surfaces for all linear studies with enhanced surface-to-surface bonding.
Benefits: Improved usability without sacrificing accuracy.

6. Mesh Performance Improvements:
• Enhanced meshing performance in studies with numerous identical parts featuring curved surfaces, using a high-quality mesh.
Benefits: Speed up the meshing of large assemblies that contain repeated parts. 

SOLIDWORKS Plastics:

7. Isolate Cause of Plastic Parts Warpage:
• Assist users in their plastic parts warpage results evaluation by breaking down the overall displacement into its three source terms: unbalanced cooling, orientation, and non-uniform shrinkage.
Benefits: Easily identify the cause of warpage to guide the design and the injection process.

8. Enhanced Sink Mark Prediction:
• Replace the current sink mark solver with the new solver to improve accuracy.
Benefits: Gain higher sink mark accuracy with the improved solver.

SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation:

9. Flow Simulation GUI Improvements:
• Improved GUI responsiveness and speed for models with many parts.
Benefits: Save time when using large models.

10. Flow Simulation Performance Improvements:
• Speed up meshing for faceted/tessellated geometries including imported STL files. 
Benefits: Save time when using imported geometries as STL files.