I'm considering a purchase of SolidWorks Simulation Premium. A friend demo-ed his copy on a static-deformation problem of interest to me, but we can't get it to do what I need. Whenever we ask for a list of nodes and displacements, we only get a partial list in the resulting CSV file. Althuogh the graphical results look complete and credible, a large fraction of the part's volume, and the vast majority of its nodes (judging by node numbers), are missing from the exported file.
Can SolidWorks realiably export numerical results? If so, what are we doing wrong? Thanks in advance -- John Willett
Hi John: Perhaps it's an issue in a particular version of the software? I am running SW 2012, SP2. I did note that I had to select the "Advanced Options" panel and press on the button there labeled "range", in order to get every single node. I attached a screen shot of what I see. I was able to verify the *.csv file does show every nodal point when I opened it into Excel. Let me know if it still does not work.. Tony