Ansys SpaceClaim reviews

Geometry modifications are very easy, you can simplfy your cad in a short time. There is no product tree, so you just click delete or "f" to delete fillet etc.. Creating cad models is very easy, you just sketch something and just pull it or modify cad with some tools.

Sometimes you need product tree for some reason. Spaceclaim have not product tree, but you can apply different methods to do what you want to do with tree.

1.) Its topology optimization in a latest update provides accurate results against shape optimization in old versions.
2.) This saves time when running multiple computes to get your desired mesh.

1.) It requires a wealth of knowledge and experience including theoretical &
practical.
2.) It costs high for learners and does not provide access to full set of tools.

I liked the feature that ANSYS has added to the Workbench for geometry optimization.

I belive the modeling part of ANSYS can be improved to be more user friendly, so that it would be much easier to use the powerfull tools that ANSYS provides.

This software has one of the best hyper-elastic material analysis. ANSYS Structural provides the best FEA result. Curve fitting option is best in this software.

Transition between tetra and hexa mesh can be difficult.

The user can constraint the sketches with spaceclaim design options. New block recording feature allow the user to easily edit the CAD models which are imported from other CAD platform. Analysis is best in this software with detailed stress definition. Simulation of operation is also done.

Use interface need to improved. Customer support needed with more multi domain representative. Software is bulk for lower configured workstations.

Ansys WB is quite complex tool with multiple modules. You can make any of the engineering calculations (simulations) here. It works with finite element method. It has too many modules as I only know solid and fluid modules I use them on my both academical studies and design business.

It is really complex, deep as ocean! Especially if you are working on the remote areas of engineering, it could be a night mare. Customer support knows basics that is OK however they can not always support you on your deep and complex problems. Also on Fluent module is not really capable for "mass transfer".

I loved Meshing tool and graphics shown in modelling. Software has different analysis options like structural,vibration,thermal,fluid analysis and many more. I have used this software for structural and thermal analysis mainly. Great use in Finite Element Analysis. It saves time of experimentation.

The hard part is to learn all about this software and its features. It's not easy to use and it's bit of expensive software.

Ansys SpaceClaim is a flexible and easy Engineering tool which offers various designing capabilities and easy report generation for the different project operations.

Dislike about the solution i had none through my whole experience with Ansys SpaceClaim and its capabilities.

In my opinion, Ansys SpaceClaim is a user-friendly 3D modeling software with a straightforward interface, making it accessible to both beginners and experienced engineers. It offers powerful geometry editing tools that simplify the creation, modification, and repair of complex 3D models. While it may have a learning curve for advanced features and limited advanced meshing capabilities, its seamless integration with other Ansys simulation software enhances efficiency in the design and simulation workflow.

Cons in this software include a learning curve for advanced features, requiring additional training or experience, and limited meshing capabilities compared to dedicated software. However, these limitations may not affect all users and can be outweighed by the software's strengths in geometry editing and integration with other Ansys simulation tools.

Ansys is an application that is mostly used in research and by proffessionals.Also it is used by students to get the accurate results and thus super helpful in performing analysis in the design of material and engineering materials section.

Least liked part is so much collaboration and we can have a different different tools for that...Sometimesit it lags but its okay since it provides so much advantage over disadvantages.

I love to describe this software because I have used it a lot in my masters studies. In my subject CFD I.e. computational fluid dynamics I have used this software to define a structure and also analyze the flow through it. Space Spaceclaim is very much user Friendly and easy to understood. I took only a week or so to have a good command over Spaceclaim. The different geometries can be easily define and can be specified with given boundary conditions in spaceclaim. The analysis and result section of ansys is the most interesting part as the actual fluid data were analyzed as per the Spaceclaim model. I have created a gear pump in Spaceclaim and also analyze it in detail with a working animation. This all can be possible via ansys. ANSYS can be defined as an Bunch of technologies and predefined technological softwares. For students like me 1 year of free ansys is available on the ansys official website. Every type of simulations were possible with ansys.

It requires a lot of computation and the time of computation is pretty long as in my case of Analysis of a gear pump, I have to wait for some 15 minutes when there is an initialization of the structure. I know that complex parts are time consuming due to the meshing which is pretty dense. But a faster database is an requirement for the ansys users.

Various engineering tools for any kind company are offered by ANSYS. It has a great training/help documents with hyperlinks which you can reach easily what you what. You can also create your own models and run it. Very easy to mesh complex geometry of designs. Compatible with other modeling tools such as Hypermesh.

It has not a user friendly interface. Sometimes it crashes and causes loss of work. Every tool needs license which may be expensive to get all of them. It can be hard to find the issue with your model in Fluent.

Any type of analysis can be done for engineering simulations. It helped a lot during college projects and now continues at work. Integration with different modeling programs improved a lot.

It's not an easy software so takes sometime to get experienced. But then simulations, CAE works get really easy after learning phase.

It’s very friendly use and it’s really smooth beside that it doesn’t require high computation power as as advance software

The Ansys meshing quality is not 100% I still achieve good results but not very accurate but this could be solved by trying other meshing tools inside Ansys

The math tools available in the software which make it viabole for a huge range of problems. We'rw an exlcusive ansys partner and work very closely with them on multiple tasks

Sometimes takes time to solve and converge and ansys meshing isn't very good comapred to the solver

Ansys SpaceClaim is quite a good tool for generating CAD files. It supports 2D and 3D designs and offer a wide range of geometry editing tools. One of the most helpful feature is that SpaceClaim was designed to be easily integrated into the other applications developed by Ansys.

The only downside of using Ansys SpaceClaim is that it is no a feature-based CAD tool. This becomes an issue if you're used to such applications. Other than that, there is nothing else I don't really dislike.

Ability to solve problems of any kind of difficulty. I use it for heating system simulation and the plots it produces are perfect. Also such simulation can partially replace real experiments.

Very complicated and not enough practical and cleanly explained tutorials

I like the most part of the software because from ansys its get easier to do analysis and better simulation.

only the customer support is not up to the point.

this app is recommended for experts for 3d modelling especially when you are using ansys for simulation as advanced simulation can be modelled.

It requires knowledge of theoritical and practical mechanical engineering.sometimes it crashes if the modelling is complex.

Ansys is user friendly software to use. I used it for subsea pipelines buckling and walking analysis.
Computation is easy and help page is very useful to find out the application

It takes more time to compute longer models especially when you have more degrees of freedom and constraints applied to the model

It gives reliable simulation results before manufacturing a device. At each version tries to solve the software problems.

Sketching a system is harder compare than similar software. The user's help document is not practical because of lacking enough examples.

This CAD module is integrated with different Ansys Simulation modules, making it easy to process the geometry for pre-processing steps. This integration also requires less time to edit and reflect the CAD models into simulation modules.Software developers are coming up with many improvements (for mechanical engineers' ease of work) in every edition.

This software needs little development towards a user-friendly interface.

This gives you the opportunity to program and simulate complex problems. It reduces expensive experimental setup and gives you the ability to outline projects.

Tough to learn and expertise. User interface is not very friendly for initial learning.