I played around with XchangeWorks and ACAD last year and to my recollection XchangeWorks had not been updated to accept the newer SolidWorks versions (future version problems once again. It looked to be a promising tool but you get what you pay for. I’ve had great luck with ACIS and STEP...
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It’s been awhile since I ran CW 7 but if I recall there was no way to “probe” your model at the node level. The newer versions of CW are slightly more user friendly when trying to debug your mesh or “probing” your model for nodal stresses. Beware that CW will give you some type of mesh...
In order to use the "standard" Cosmos material database you have to point to the installation directory of cosmos. This can be done by clicking on "preferences" on the cosmosworks pull down menu. In "preferences" click on the material tab and point to where the...
