- [Narrator] Simulation express is a great way
to generate a really nice report.
And to get into that, go ahead and click on
Simulation Express and notice we've already got
a fixture and (mumbles), we're ready to go,
just go ahead and click on Next,
so we just kind of jump through these individual windows.
Everything should be the same from the last time
we ran it.
If you want to run the simulation again
go ahead and click on Run Simulation.
Looks good.
Alright, and now the factor safety looks good
at four point four.
And go down to the bottom of the screen
and click on done viewing results.
And now we have two options here.
We can generate a report or we can generate
an e-drawing file.
So in this case I'm going to click on generate report.
And up here at the top I've got a description
and a conclusion.
You can turn those on or off as needed.
But I would definitely recommend in far as the description,
state the material and state any changes you made
to the model. For instance we had
a multi-body part we combined together,
so it's not a perfect model,
but it was pretty close.
Definitely state those assumptions
and same thing with the conclusion,
you're concluding you have a four point four
factor of safety based upon the material
that you chose is alloy steel.
If it were a different material obviously you'd
have different results, and so on.
So anyways, state your assumptions, state your conclusions.
If you want to write your name in here, your company,
you can just check on these boxes here
and then fill that information out as needed.
If you don't, no big deal, just go ahead and
I'm going to put it right on the desktop.
Document name, we're going to call it two point one two
report, and click on generate,
and away it goes.
It's just going to open up a word document
and start putting all this information in there.
All those screen shots, bunch of data,
so it's really doing a huge amount of work for you
behind the scenes.
So, this is a really great way to look very professional
with a great report about what you're working on.
Down here, here's our description, that data
would show up right over here.
You got a nice report with date and everything.
A full table of contents, and nine pages
of great information, so hard to beat.
So anyways, let's scroll through this and see what we have.
So, showing the part, the solid body, here's the mass,
the volume, the density, the weight.
Where it started from, as far as the file path.
Down here the material and what we're assuming
the yield strength and tensile strength is.
Here's the fixture and the load.
And as we go through here, the mesh, the size
and so on as we scroll through this document
you can see there's the mesh drawing
and down here at the bottom you can see some
of the results.
And the displacement.
And down here is the factor of safety, so.
All that in one really nice report all done for you
by SolidWorks Simulation, so, a great tool
and a great report.