SolidWorks Motion Training Course

The course provides both essential and advanced sessions on the basics of building, simulating and refining a mechanical design system, from suspension steering system and drive shafts to backhoes, CAMS, Gears, and Actuators.

Who should attend: This course has been designed for new SolidWorks Motion users who would like to learn to perform motion analysis on their designs. The course provides an in-depth session on the basics of building, simulating and refining a mechanical design system.

Course Outline

Basics

• Introduction to user interface
• Constraint mapping concepts
• Action only forces and moments
• Action/Reaction forces and moments
• Motion drivers
• Building models for kinematic analysis
• Create displacement, velocity, acceleration and force graphics
• Translatory and  torsional springs
• Translatory and  torsional dampers
• 3D Contact to simulate realistic interaction between parts
• Impact forces
• Using Function builder and Expressions to build complex motions and forces
• Flexible connectors - Bushings

Advanced Topics

• Kinematic and Dynamic analysis
• Redundancies - Importance and how to avoid/solve them
• Export of results to SolidWorks Simulation (stress analysis)