- [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.