Let's see what's new for SOLIDWORKS Simulation in 2025. The Proteus Motion is a training tool built to perform for professional athletes. This handle is how the athlete connects with the machine and ensuring the athletes safety while using the Proteus Motion is extremely important. The handle needs to be strong enough to endure the forces of a major League Baseball swing, but lightweight enough to simulate the feel of the bat in the hitters hand. It is a highly designed assembly that will need to be virtually tested to meet all of the design criteria. Let's take a look at how we can use some new features in SOLIDWORKS Simulation 2025 to speed up the analysis of this handle, and also increase the accuracy of the results. Firstly, there are several components that are required for the handle to function properly, yet many aren’t integral to the handle structure. New in 2025, we can now select the structural components we want to keep in the analysis and exclude all of the others. This is a huge time saver when working with large assemblies. These moving parts are all connected with pins. Virtual hardware is a great way to reduce the overall scope of the analysis without sacrificing accuracy. Now, virtual pins can be defined using distributed coupling technology, which more accurately transfers loads the surfaces where the pins are located, increasing the overall accuracy of the analysis. The handle is connected to the rest of the Proteus motion machine, but adding a rigid boundary condition would over constrain the model. In reality, there is some compliance to the rest of the machine, which would act as a stiff or isotropic spring. New in simulation 2025 A new ortho tropic spring type can be defined with unique stiffness values in all orthogonal directions, plus torsional and bending stiffness, as well. Before we run the study, we need to mesh the model, and in 2025, assemblies that contain identical parts will mesh up to 15% faster while using the blended curvature based mesher. Let's move now to SOLIDWORKS Plastics for 2025. Some components of the Proteus motion are plastic. We want to make sure they look aesthetically pleasing and can also fit, form, and function properly. Plastics 2025 can help in designing the perfect part right from the get go. The new results break down overall warpage displacement, into unbalanced cooling, orientation and non-uniform shrinkage, giving better insights into deformation characteristics. A new or more accurate solver is used to compute sink marks. This ensures the virtual prototype more closely matches the physical one. These are just a selection of the new enhancements available for SOLIDWORKS Simulation and Plastics in 2025.