{"id":18007,"date":"2017-10-17T11:00:31","date_gmt":"2017-10-17T15:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/?p=18007"},"modified":"2017-10-17T09:07:27","modified_gmt":"2017-10-17T13:07:27","slug":"solidworks-flow-simulation-two-time-saving-tips-project-setup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/2017\/10\/solidworks-flow-simulation-two-time-saving-tips-project-setup.html","title":{"rendered":"SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation: Two Time Saving Tips for Project Setup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Save time on project setup in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawkridgesys.com\/products\/solidworks-flow-simulation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Flow Simulation<\/a> by utilizing the techniques listed in this blog and companion video &#8211; propagating setup definitions across component instances, and importing setup from child components.<\/p>\n<p>Setting up Flow Simulation projects can involve repetitive definition of multiple boundary conditions. This process can be sped up by propagating definitions to other component instances. This is accomplished simply by creating the initial item of interest (in this case a Fan definition) and then <strong>Right Clicking<\/strong> said item, and choosing <strong>Copy to Component Instance<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawkridgesys.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/image001-7.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9053 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawkridgesys.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/image001-7.png\" alt=\"image001\" width=\"370\" height=\"184\" \/><\/a><\/center>A dialog then appears and a visual display of all the instances to be copied is provided. Specific instances can be skipped by selectively removing them if desired. <strong>Click<\/strong> the <strong>Green Checkmark<\/strong> to continue. Each instance selected now includes boundary conditions identical to those of the original component.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawkridgesys.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/image003-6.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9054 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawkridgesys.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/image003-6.png\" alt=\"image003\" width=\"555\" height=\"216\" \/><\/a><\/center>An additional tool with great time-saving potential is the ability to <strong>Add from Components <\/strong>(new in Flow Simulation 2017). This is the ability to inherit properties from a \u201cchild\u201d project &#8211; a project defined on a subassembly or component &#8211; and bring those properties up to the top level study. This includes nearly all setup definitions, including goals.<\/p>\n<p>To begin, launch the command from the Tools pull down menu, accessing\u00a0 <strong>Tools -&gt; Flow Simulation -&gt; Tools -&gt; Add from Components<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This will initiate a scan of the assembly which will identify only those components which have projects associated with them.\u00a0 Select the desired project from each subassembly or component, and then choose <strong>Add<\/strong> to import these items to the top level.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawkridgesys.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/image005-7.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9055 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawkridgesys.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/image005-7.png\" alt=\"image005\" width=\"408\" height=\"174\" \/><\/a><\/center>The imported items will then appear in the Project tree under a folder called <strong>From Components<\/strong>. If desired, <strong>Right Click<\/strong> this folder at any time and choose <strong>Update All<\/strong> to effectively re-import and update the project setup from the child level projects.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-container\">\n<div class=\"entry-content-asset\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ozpu34vKi0E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>For more information, check out our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/hawkridgesystems\/\">YouTube channel<\/a>, get a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawkridgesys.com\/products\/solidworks-flow-simulation\/get-a-quote\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation quote<\/a>\u00a0or contact us at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawkridgesys.com\/\">Hawk Ridge Systems<\/a>\u00a0today. Thanks for reading!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Save time on project setup in Flow Simulation by utilizing the techniques listed in this blog and companion video &#8211; propagating setup definitions across component instances, and importing setup from child components. Setting up Flow Simulation projects can involve repetitive<\/p>\n... <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/2017\/10\/solidworks-flow-simulation-two-time-saving-tips-project-setup.html\">Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":205,"featured_media":18462,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,35],"tags":[522,818,292,2100,889,890,60,2101,453],"class_list":["post-18007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solidworks-flow-simulation","category-tips-tricks","tag-3d-design","tag-3d-modeling","tag-flow-simulation","tag-project-setup","tag-solidworks","tag-solidworks-flow-simulation","tag-tech-tip","tag-time-saving-tips","tag-tips-and-tricks"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18007"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18463,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18007\/revisions\/18463"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}