SOLIDWORKS TUTORIALS

SOLIDWORKS Tutorials

Here you will find:

  • Tutorials, that will help you learn how to use the software and teach you some basic flow simulation concepts
  • Videos covering various topics
    • Heat Transfer Tutorials

    These tutorials should be compatable with all versions of SOLIDWORKS.

    Click on the images to download the tutorials as a *.chm or *.zip file.

    For the *.chm files to run correctly, right click on the download and select unblock.


    Custom Materials

    Many SOLIDWORKS simulations depend on the material properties of the part or assembly being examined. This tutorial will show you how to edit these properties, as well as how to create, import and export custom materials and fluids.

    Time: 60 Minutes

    Brick Wall Heat Transfer

    Heat transfer is an important engineering problem. This tutorial shows you how to set up a steady-state heat transfer simulation in SOLIDWORKS.

    Time: 60 Minutes

    Critical Radius

    Design studies can be used together with heat transfer simulations to examine many scenarios in a relatively short time. This tutorial examines the temperate of a copper wire with various thicknesses of insulation.

    Time: 60 Minutes

    Transient Conduction

    Building off of previous concepts, transient heat transfer can be modelled in SolidWorks. This tutorial will show you how to set up, run, and analyze transient thermal studies for conduction through an egg over time.

    Time: 75 Minutes

    Pin Fin (Heat Transfer)

    The application of fins is useful for cooling surfaces and reducing heat transfer. In this tutorial, we will simulate and explore the temperature distribution across a circular pin fin. Complete this tutorial before starting the Pin Fin (CFD) Tutorial.

    Time: 30 Minutes

    Flow Simulation Tutorials

    These tutorials should be compatable with all versions of SOLIDWORKS.

    Click on the images to download the tutorials as a *.chm or *.zip file.

    For the *.chm files to run correctly, right click on the download and select unblock.


    Cylinder Flow Introduction

    This tutorial will introduce you to using SOLIDWORKS' flow simulation add-in. You will use the Flow Wizard to create a new simulation project, then use the simulation to determine the lift and drag coefficients of the flow over a cylinder.

    Time: 30 Minutes

    Cylinder Flow Parametric

    In order to quickly analyse a number of flow scenarios, SOLIDOWORKS allows you to do a Parametric Study. In this tutorial, you will find the lift and drag coefficients of flow over a cylinder at a number of different flow velocities.

    Time: 30 Minutes

    Cylinder Flow Transient

    A transient analysis allows you to observe the development of various fluid phenomena. In this tutorial, you will examine the vortices that are generated as water flows over a cylinder.

    Time: 45 Minutes

    Airfoil

    This tutorial combines the knowledge we learned from the previous tutorial, we will perform a simulation on a NACA airfoil and see if our simulation results is close to the xfoil data.

    Time: 45 Minutes

    Pin Fin (CFD)

    In this tutorial will use the flow simulation to capture the heat transfer coefficient distribution on the surface, as well as examining the average heat transfer coefficient used in the fin equation tutorial. Complete the Pin Fin (Heat Transfer) Tutorial before starting this tutorial.

    Time: 30 Minutes

    Videos
    Laminar vs Turbulent Flow

    Understand the defining characteristics of each type of flow and how to calculate its Reynolds Number.

    Lagrangian vs Eulerian Descriptions

    Define Lagrangian and Eulerian descriptions in Fluid Mechanics and their purpose and applications in engineering.

    Introduction to Flow Patterns

    Define four different types of flow patterns in Fluid Mechanics.

    Defining A Streamline

    How to get the equation of a streamline from a velocity field using its definition.

    Bernoulli Equation

    How to derive the equation, its limitations and required conditions, and 2 other forms of The Bernoulli Equation.

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