Hi guys. Today we're going to have a look at using SOLIDWORKS simulation, the online trial version of the software. You can see I've got open in front of me. The first thing I'm going to do is open a model from my recent files list. There's a whole load of example content on here. The one I've chosen is a complex machine part, but any number of these assemblies or parts would be appropriate for the work simulation. Okay, so the first thing we're going to need to do is to turn on simulation add in. This can be done by going to tools and add ins. And you just tick the simulation tick box on the left hand side and press okay. What you should notice is that the simulation and the analysis preparation tabs are triggered by this action. So to start a simulation we go to the simulation tab on the command manager and choose study. There are a number of ways we could use simulation to test our part. But the test we are going to do here is referred to as a static analysis. One of the main things this means is that any loading so forces brushes and that kind of thing applied slowly. Quick changes of force like explosions, crashing, quick impact can't be analyzed using a static static. I'm going to call the study force intention and give it a tick. You will see that the study appears in the tab at the bottom of the screen, and has a tree similar to SOLIDWORKS on the left. First thing we will do in the tree is to give the path a material. We can do this by right clicking the part name in the tree and choosing Apply Edit Material. This will take us to the Material library where we can select a material of our choice. In this example we will use alloys, steel. Next, we need to simulate how this part will be held in position. We can do this for the fixtures option on the simulation tree. In this case we will say that the warehouse the parts are being held in position by what we call fixed constraint. This means that there is no movement either in translation along x, Y or z, or in rotation around x, y, or z. Next, we need to establish the loading on the model. Generally this is done by the external loads option in the simulation tree I'll choose the force option. And select the faces of the two front holes. By default, forces are applied normal to the face, as you can see by the arrows. In this case that isn't appropriate. To select a direction, use the top plane to define the direction. We'll have a force of 10,000 Newtons applied normal stop time. Last step before we run the simulation is to define the mesh. Generally, this means two things. Have we got enough mesh to define the shape well, and is the mesh fine enough to show changes of stress and displacement? Because we don't know what the stress part looks like before we run the study. Sometimes that means we have to run the study, predicting where we need to find the mesh, and then make iterative alterations. Depending upon the results, I'll click the mesh option in the simulation tree and choose Create Mesh. All we're going to do here is select Mesh parameters and select curvature based Mesh and set the slider to fine. Changing the mesh slider changes the values in the mesh parameter boxes. This in turn changes the mesh size and the quality of the result. We get when we run the study. Last, we can press the run button in the command Manager. This initiates the calculation, gives us some results. It will take a few seconds to run through. We should end up with three different results stress, displacement and strain. Don't be alarmed by the distortion of the part. This is an exaggerated displacement to show the direction of movement. You can see at the top left that this is 14 times the real shape change, and the displacement plot shows the maximum displacement is only 2.5mm. Hopefully that's showing a little about how to use simulation in the online trial version of SOLIDWORKS. You can use these principles on any of the example models inside the trial, and watch some of our other videos to get hints and tips to go further. These can be found on my solid solutions, which you can get to from any search engine. Thanks for watching!