SOLIDWORKS Quick Tip - Thermal Study Introduction

Learn about thermal studies in this quick introduction to thermal studies, and look at some ways to interpret your results. Quick Tip presented by Tyler Young of GoEngineer.

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[walterwhitehead]

The value you put in for the Thermal Resistance you entered it in as a "Total" resistance but the SolidWorks Manual of the same exact analysis has you enter it in as a Distributed Resistance. The unit for the value you put in is Kmsquared/Watts which is the units for the distributed thermal resistance. Total resistance has units of K/Watts.

[leksonohartanto]

Clear tutorial and voice..easy..God bless you bro.

[kangur]

I really like this tutorial. Thanks a lot :) I am struggling with thermal analysis of microplasma generator... I hope I'll finish it somehow. Cheers!

[xxWildflowxx]

thank you for this bro. i couldnt find the contact set for the connections and watching your vid, i found it. thanks so much

[agstechnicalsupport]

A very good example and a very good video on SolidWorks thermal study. Thank you for posting !

[PEIRDO]

Thanks again for this video. Very clear and well paced presentation of material.

[johnrobinmagno]

i finally understand how it works. thanks for this tutorial;)

[Alexie]

Nice tutorial. Learnt alot, thanks! But how did you get the thermal resistance? Is that just of the contact area between the heat sink and the chip? And calculated of material of copper?

[ramsrinivasan]

Hey, thanks a lot for the video!

Could you by chance tell what materials you were using for each of the components?

[fadoobaba]

good luck getting photos of time steps for presentations :D most irritating part, at offices the PC for presentations should be high end too... so you can easily show the file in software instead of infinite screen shots :)

[galatas]

Why convection on the bottom of the mounting plate? This surface is not exposed to air

[calseynez]

can you do the simulation with assemblies?

[RichManProgram]

Can I somehow use this for temperature rise due to friction? If yes, how?

[_niou]

How did you determine your convection values?

[usmcilya]

Did all that, but I get initial temperature errors when "running" then everything comes out in negative values.

[alvarolucianobelinsandoval]

Thanks a lot for this upload!!

Is there any option where you can actually look into in order to know the math function Solidworks uses for thermal and mechanical simulations? or in an official manual? Hope you can help me with this.

[worried]

Is it mandatory to define a thermal load on every surface? for example I have a complicated assembly can I select major surfaces or do I have to select every surface. 

[spsi]

How do you figure out what the thermal resistance is between the surfaces for the glue? Is it not based on surface area also?

[MrAri]

If i make a random part is it possible to find the thermal conductivity of the whole thing?

[pratheeksthulasiram]

Hi...can you please tell me how to choose the 'h' value or the heat transfer coefficient value?
How is it calculated and on what basis?
How critical is it and what value should i use for Al-6061 alloy?
Thanks in advance!