Continuing with the Cut Plot setup, I turned on the option for 3D Profile. This is where the additional post-processing capabilities of the Transient Explorer tool, with additional Cut Plot options, comes into play. This works for an instance in time, but I want more! Occasionally I would make the result plot slightly transparent but most of the time, this is where I would have stopped in creating the visual output. I want to display color contours of the mass fraction of water with 30 levels of color. Once solved, I created a Cut Plot of the results using the assembly’s front plane as a reference. Then it was just a matter of creating the CFD mesh and solving the project. I also added Global Goals to track the average mass fraction of both water and air. Continuing the setup within the Flow Simulation project, I added a Local Initial Mesh to a volume surrounding the beaker. For this analysis, it requires turning on the Free Surface analysis option, setting up the analysis as a 3 second transient study, turn on gravity acting in the appropriate direction, and specifying air and water as the immiscible fluids. With my CAD model set up, I began creating the SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation project. I set up a multibody part model that included a 1L glass beaker, a table surface, and a 250mL bubble of water suspended above the bottom surface of the beaker. I wanted to show how SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation Free Surface analysis would solve the dropping and sloshing of water into a beaker. Here is how it works for the visual results I created.
All it took was turning on this Property Manager button and investigating a few of the options.
Recently though, when trying to create a few “wow factor” visuals for a project, I found that this old tool fit the bill perfectly. It was a button to click and something to look at but was quickly forgotten. Honestly, I do not remember when I first used the 3D Profile option for a 2D cut plot in SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation. That feature is ‘3D Profile’ under the Contours section of the 2D Cut Plot Property Manager. As it turns out, a feature for creating 2D cut plots, that has been available for ages, was just what I was looking for. Since the release of SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation 2018, I’ve been investigating additional uses of these tools to create appealing results. Looking even further into the past, I wrote about the SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation tool “ Transient Explorer“. Not too long ago I wrote the blog “ Which will fill first?” using SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation 2018’s new feature “Free Surface Flow”. How do I use the existing tools available for creating interesting and engaging output with SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation? The best analysis in the world is only as good as the output and message that can be created from the results. Which brings me to the theme of this blog. We tend to learn exactly what we need to know, get good at that, and move on. How well do you know your Property Managers in SOLIDWORKS, SOLIDWORKS Simulation or SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation? Do you really pay attention to all the buttons and options that you can use for any specific feature? Chances are, if you’re like me, you looked at all the bells and whistles the first time or two and then quickly forgot about each available option.
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