- [Instructor] To get started
with SOLIDWORKS SimulationXpress,
we first need to turn on those tools
and make sure we can see them in our toolbars.
Now, you can see up here,
at the top of the screen, I have two tabs,
Features and Sketch, and that's not what I'm looking for.
So, I want to turn on the ribbon bar
with the tools that I need.
I can go ahead and click on either one of these tabs.
Right-click, and you can see here,
I get a list of all the available tools that I can turn on.
Under Evaluate here, if I turn that one on,
you can see it adds me a new tab.
Click on that one, and down here,
you can see I have SimulationXpress Analysis Wizard.
And that is a tool we're going to be using
throughout this course.
Now, there's also one more toolbar I want to turn on
before we move forward.
And if I go back over here,
click on Evaluate with a right-click,
and come down here to Analysis Preparation.
Go ahead and turn that one on as well.
Now, you can see I've got a full toolbar here,
with a whole bunch of tools
that make it really easy to simplify
and prepare a model for analysis.
And a lot of times, what you probably want to do
if you're working on a complicated design
or you're iterating through a design,
is save out a copy or do a Save As copy.
Don't use your model that you're using
inside of your design.
Just save out a copy of it first,
and then we are going to analyze that model,
modify it and change it.
And then later on, you might want to incorporate that
back into your design, but a lot of times,
what you're going to find when you do an analysis,
is that you want to make some pretty hefty
modifications to your part.
So, it might end up being a completely different style
of part or you might add or remove features that might
interfere with your other model
or your other top-level assembly.
So, I recommend starting with a copy first.
You can always swap it out later.
But that will give you a nice part to work with,
and you're not afraid to make modifications
or change things that might affect things otherwise.
But anyways, those are the tools we need
to use to get started inside
of the SOLIDWORKS SimulationXpress package,
and the next step is going to be jumping in
and seeing the process.