Hi Dan (@dschroeder)!
- If you upload a SolidWorks assembly to SimScale, you need to create a compressed archive e.g. zip with all parts and (sub-)assembly files and make sure the root assembly comes alphabetically first (we will improve the UX, but right now that’s how it works). It’s also described in our documentation: How Can I Upload an Assembly? Knowledge Base | SimScale
- If I do that with your assembly I can upload the model, but get a faceted version of it (see the facet fault and the display mode in the viewer). I am not an expert of the SolidWorks file format, but my assumption is that it imports the visualization as model here as the part files are missing (only the 2.1_R_19.SLDASM is available).
- That you got an invalid format error is not correct, I created a ticket for this, you should have gotten an warning that linked parts a missing. Thanks for pointing that out.
- Your x_t upload fails in the tessellation step that is needed to visualize the model in the viewer. Obviously that should work. We need to take a look unfortunately. Just to explain a bit: It is very counter-intuitive or surprising if you make very small changes and suddenly such an error happens, but already small changes can lead to precision changes or geometrical artifacts e.g. very thin, sliver faces and can lead therefore to issues downstream.
- One of our development teams is currently working on a potential fix, so let me update in the course of this week.
Best Alex