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Welcome
What's New
View new features for SimSolid 2024.1.
Get Started
Learn the basics and discover the workspace.
- Product Introduction
- License Setup
  Activate your SimSolid license from within the product.
- Hints and Tips
  Short list of hints and tips to get you started with SimSolid.
- Quick Start
  General workflow overview for SimSolid.
- User Interface
  Visual guide for navigating the SimSolid user interface.
- Workflow Guidelines
  This section provides best practices and tips on how to effectively use SimSolid capabilities.
- Mouse Controls
  Mouse controls for model view manipulation and component selection in SimSolid
- Keyboard Shortcuts
  List of keyboard shortcuts available in SimSolid.
- Command Line Execution
  Install and invoke SimSolid from the operating system command line.
- Run SimSolid on Linux
  The Linux version of SimSolid works without any user-interface and is meant to run jobs on HPC clusters.
- Units
  A guide to unit management in SimSolid.
- Measurements
  Measurement of coordinates and dimensions in SimSolid.
- Solution Settings
  Summary of the settings available for refining SimSolid solutions.
- Hardware
- Set Model Front View
  Select default orientation for the Front View of the model.
- User Defined Views
  Generator and browser for user defined views.
- Product Comparison
  Comparison of functions available in SimSolid , SimSolid Standard, SimSolid Advanced, and and Inspire.
- Configuration File
  Used to manually activate or deactivate a set of features.
- Theoretical Background
  Theoretical background of SimSolid and its software implementation workflow, and comparison of other methods used in traditional FEA.
Tutorials
Discover SimSolid functionality with interactive tutorials.
Interface with External Products
Interfaces that support SimSolid output file format.
Geometry
Information about treatment and properties of geometric entities in SimSolid.
Assembly
Summary of available functionality for defining the properties and behavior of parts in the model.
Connections
Connections are used to define the association of different regions of interest between parts in an assembly.
Create Analysis
Create an analysis for your project.
Boundary Conditions
Boundary Conditions available for SimSolid.
Post Processing
Run analyses and view a variety of results in SimSolid.
Design Study
Design studies allow you to quickly evaluate and compare the structural performance from different design scenarios.
Verification Problems
Solved verification models.

Hardware

Minimum Hardware Requirements

SimSolid is only supported on the Windows platform. It is recommended to use a Windows 10 OS on an Intel I7 based computer, or similar, with at least 4-cores and 16 GB of memory. For all graphics features to be supported, SimSolid requires an OpenGL graphics card, version 3.1 or higher.

Hardware Settings

The following options are available:

Change the number of cores/processors used by analysis solver. By default, the application detects all available cores/processors, and uses them all during the computation to maximize the performance. The number of cores to be used can be decreased if desired in order to reserve some cores for other processes running on the computer.
Clear all entries in the Windows registry related to the application, such as material database location, and so on.