Bidirectional interface connect COMSOL and SolidWorks® and Autodesk® Inventor®
The CAD Import Module's Bidirectional Interfaces to SolidWorks® and Autodesk® Inventor® are easy-to-use for modifying a CAD drawing and automatically transferring these changes to a linked COMSOL Multiphysics model.
You first create a CAD model in one of the two CAD packages and then initialize the connection from within COMSOL Multiphysics; in this step the connection translates the CAD model into a COMSOL Multiphysics geometry.
After assigning physics properties and boundary conditions and then solving your model in COMSOL Multiphysics, you may suspect that a change in geometry could improve its performance. Return then to the SolidWorks or Inventor environments and make an appropriate modification.
Using a simple menu selection you can update the COMSOL Multiphysics model to reflect the changes in the CAD drawing. None of your physics and boundary settings are lost, and all you need to do is re-mesh and re-solve the model.
Taking advantage of the link's bidirectional nature, you can also initiate geometry changes from within COMSOL Multiphysics. This then updates your CAD geometry for further work in the design process.
The Inventor and SolidWorks bidirectional interfaces also support parametric sweeps. Multiple-parameter sweeping is supported, and you can leverage parametric sweeps on distributed memory systems, such as Linux and Windows clusters.