Hello
I use Solidworks Premium 2023 SP5.0 for finite element simulations. To ensure the validity of the calculation, I am used to making a mesh convergence on the strain energy on other software (Abaqus). The idea is as follows:
- I start the calculation with any mesh and I look at the total strain energy of the model
- I restart the calculation with a finer mesh and I look at the strain energy again.
→ If the latter has not decreased much, the mesh is sufficiently fine
→If the energy decreases a lot, I continue to refine the mesh until it converges.
My question is the following, on solidworks in the results you can display ENERGY (Total strain energy), but unless I'm mistaken, it corresponds to the total strain energy in each element and not for the whole model. So I would like to have the same size but for my entire model.
Is it possible to obtain the total strain energy for the entire model on solidworks?