LiveLink™ for SOLIDWORKS®: Add-In for SOLIDWORKS

If you have licensed LiveLink™ for SOLIDWORKS®, the COMSOL Installer registers an add-in called the LiveLink for COMSOL (5.2a). This add-in should appear in the SOLIDWORKS user interface, listed in the Add-Ins dialog box, accessible from the Tools menu.

The add-in provides tools for preparing your SOLIDWORKS design for simulation with COMSOL. For example, you can create selections on the geometry and set up dimensional parameters. Those selections and parameters, together with the geometry, are synchronized with the COMSOL model.

The add-in enables two modes of setting up simulations based on the SOLIDWORKS design:

•	In one mode you can run SOLIDWORKS and the COMSOL Desktop side-by-side and synchronize the geometry between the two.

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In another mode you can work with COMSOL simulations inside SOLIDWORKS. This latter mode is called the One-Window interface. Only one version of the One-Window interface can be active at a time. If you have several COMSOL versions installed, make sure that the latest version of LiveLink for COMSOL is selected from the COMSOL>One-Window Version menu inside SOLIDWORKS. If required, restart SOLIDWORKS after changing the One-Window interface version.

If COMSOL cannot connect to SOLIDWORKS, you can re-install COMSOL, or follow the instructions from the following link: http://www.comsol.com/support/knowledgebase/1122.