COSMOSMotion is the complete SolidWorks embedded functional virtual prototyping package and contains all the functionality required to make sure your designs will work before you build them. Most companies build and test physical prototypes. COSMOSMotion tests the function of your mechanisms before you build them. This results in quantitative reductions in physical prototyping costs and reduced product development time. In addition to that COSMOSMotion provides qualitative benefits such as the ability to consider more designs, risk reduction, and the availability of valuable information early in the design process.

SolidWorks gives you world-class capabilities to build realistic 3D solid models representing the form of your parts. Creating assemblies of 3D solids allows you to clearly understand whether the parts will fit together. 

COSMOSMotion lets you understand the function of your design before prototyping any hardware, all within the familiar environment of SolidWorks. First, you will create motion models containing constraints, contacts, forces, and actuators. You will then simulate mechanism motion using the most powerful simulation engine in the world: ADAMS. Finally, you will review animations, plot engineering data, and check for interferences. Using animations and XY plots you will size motors/actuators, determine power consumption, layout linkages, develop cams, understand gear drives, size springs/dampers, determine how contacting parts behave, generate operating loads suitable for use by Finite Element Analysis, and much much more. Knowing this information will help you answer two fundamental engineering questions: "Will it work?" and "Will it break?” If you are a designer or engineer interested in understanding the performance aspects of your design before physical prototyping, you need COSMOSMotion.

As a SolidWorks Gold Product, COSMOSMotion’s user interface is a seamless extension of SolidWorks. COSMOSMotion is built upon the ADAMS® dynamic solution engine from Mechanical Dynamics, Inc. Thousands of engineering teams from nearly every manufacturing industry today rely on ADAMS, making it the world’s most widely used mechanical simulation software. Using COSMOSMotion you can be assured the underlying technology is proven, your investment in SolidWorks software and training will be preserved and enhanced, and you will have a powerful new tool to evaluate the function of your product designs