Hello All,
Our reseller informed us that SolidWorks has an MSC/MARC solver integrated with it to solve non-linear analyses. However, when I solve a non-linear problem in Solidworks the solver process I see in the task manager is nstar.exe - which I believe is the COSMOS non-linear solver. I checked the MSC website and could not find any article or entry that indicates that MARC has been integrated into Solidworks in the same manner COSMOS was. I'm relatively new to the SolidWorks community (been using Pro/E for the past 10 years) so I hoped to get a second opinion on this. If anyone can confirm/deny what solver Solidworks uses for non-linear studies, I would appreciate it.
If it turns out my company will have to acquire MARC as a separate product, I was curious if Solidworks had a module that could export geometry and loads/constraints to a third party solver. Pro/E had a module called Pro/MESH that did this, and I was curious if there was similar functionality in Solidworks.
Edited by: Saladin
Our reseller informed us that SolidWorks has an MSC/MARC solver integrated with it to solve non-linear analyses. However, when I solve a non-linear problem in Solidworks the solver process I see in the task manager is nstar.exe - which I believe is the COSMOS non-linear solver. I checked the MSC website and could not find any article or entry that indicates that MARC has been integrated into Solidworks in the same manner COSMOS was. I'm relatively new to the SolidWorks community (been using Pro/E for the past 10 years) so I hoped to get a second opinion on this. If anyone can confirm/deny what solver Solidworks uses for non-linear studies, I would appreciate it.
If it turns out my company will have to acquire MARC as a separate product, I was curious if Solidworks had a module that could export geometry and loads/constraints to a third party solver. Pro/E had a module called Pro/MESH that did this, and I was curious if there was similar functionality in Solidworks.
Edited by: Saladin