From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Shell and Beam Modeling in FEA

What you should know - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Shell and Beam Modeling in FEA

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What you should know

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- [Instructor] Now in this short video, I'm going to cover the things that you need to start the course. So first thing, is what you need to know, and a basic familiarity with SOLIDWORKS geometry will be quite important. Now there are several topic areas we want to concentrate on, and that will be manipulating surface geometry independently, weldments, and sheet metal bodies. If you can practice those, research those, that's really gonna help you on this course. You also need a basic understanding of FEA principles, and optionally, I have a course on LinkedIn called SOLIDWORKS: Simulation for Finite Element Analysis. I'd recommend you take a look at that. Now what you need to have is the SOLIDWORKS Simulation add-in. I'm using version 2018, so to open the exercise files, you'll need 2018 or later for both the part files and results files. What I have done, though, is to put parasolid geometry files as an equivalent, so if you don't have version 2018 or later, you can open up those and rebuild the models, or in some cases, we actually build the geometry from scratch. What you won't be able to do, though, is import the mesh or the results if you're starting from the parasolid geometry.

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