Ansys SpaceClaim Reviews

Pros

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

Cons

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

Pros

SpaceClaim is great for CAD, tutorials within the software allow for fast training, if you have used other CAD software you will easily be able to manipulate SpaceClaim. A great variety of functionalities and controls are available for a fast design. A great pro is the ease of access to mechanically simulate your designs, Ansys has a more powerful simulation feature than other competitors. Boundary conditions and forces are easy to insert. In general, Ansys SpaceClaim is powerful, easy to use, and reliable.

Cons

Ansys Spaceclaim demands a considerable amount of computational processing power, check computer requirements before purchasing. Importing geometries from other CAD software can sometimes create problems.

Pros

The endless scenarios this software can solve- if setup using valid assumptions, you can use this to accurately simulate just about anything

Cons

It takes some time to figure out how to use and is less intuitive than other packages I've used. Simulations can also take a long time to complete

Pros

This software has so many capabilities. It can be used to simulate simple beam bending problems, as well as much more complex problems like bridges and cyclic loading problems. If you get good with the command bar, you can just edit code, and read from the file to run through problems quickly. The help menu is a life-saver.

Cons

Not everything is intuitive, and with no "undo" button, it can be frustrating. Getting used to the commands takes a little time. Navigating through the drop-down lists takes lots of time.

Pros

The realism in the simulation models of this software are incredible, since they are very close to reality. The available controls allow to evaluate any variable and part that is desired. It has the option of optimizing results to reach a response that improves the performance of what is being designed and tested.

Cons

The complexity of the software makes the learning curve quite slow, despite the support found on the internet, some terminology must be known before using the software and it is not described very well in some cases.

Pros

I used ANSYS Workbench to perform many analysis on complex fluid flow problems with a temperature gradient to calculate the stress on the pipe.

Cons

ANSYS can crash pretty easily and lose the current analysis or mesh that was processing. Having a machine with high specs counters this well

Pros

Contains multiple analysis suite packages for all types of analysis; static, dynamic, structural, thermal, model, flow, etc..

Cons

Not easy to use at first. Need to understand the setup and process of the analysis to actually run a creditable study

Pros

Its direct modeling capability allows for faster and easier way of modeling complex geometry. This feature makes it easy to repair and edit surfaces of imported geometry without giving error as most modeling softwares do.
With this, complex geometry can be made simple for faster meshing and Simulation by easily removing unnecessary parts or features using the tools in the repair tab.

Cons

Though, it has a better GUI than design modeler, there are limited tutorials to put absolute beginners through the use of the tools for modeling complex geometry.

Pros

ANSYS provides a wide array of tools to help model complex systems. Whether it be structural analysis for loaded parts (ANSYS mechanical , or computational fluid dynamics simulations (ANSYS Fluent), ANSYS gives users confidence that they can verify their designs quite accurately. ANSYS also provides many examples and documentation online to help learn the basics of the software, as well as more advanced modeling techniques.

Cons

As is expected with such a robust software, the learning curve for any new user is quite steep. Navigating the multitude of menu layers is not intuitive at first. The built in CAD modeling package in ANSYS is also not nearly as useful as more dedicated CAD softwares, such as Solidworks or Creo. It would be nice to not always have to import a model into ANSYS when the design gets a bit too complex.

Pros

The software allows to solve multi-Physics problems from mechanical deformation, heat transfer, to computational fluid dynamics. ANSYS Workbenchs is a great platform for pre-processing, meshing, and post-processing procedure that makes the software very intuitive and easy to use.

Cons

Too expensive and it has limited number of nodes/elements for students.

Pros

SpaceClaim is useful software and I am also suprised, how quickly changes can be made to an object. Repairing of model or deleting some surfaces are more easy then in competitive programs. It is very user-friendly software.

Cons

The documentation is quite poor. Also have problem with large object processing, when program start lags.

Pros

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.

Cons

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.

Pros

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.

Cons

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.

Alternatives Considered

Pros

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.

Cons

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.

Pros

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.

Cons

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

Pros

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

Cons

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

Pros

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

Cons

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

Pros

gives powerful structure analysis options in relatively user friendly environment. You will not find easier to use mechanical FEA software that grows in useful features with each release - for example topology optimization in v18 is really what most of mechanical engineers were waiting for in FEA tool.

Cons

quite limited meshing options (very often do not recognize simple sweep geometries and created tetra mesh)
not always intuitive (cross sections are nightmare, especially when you want to use 2 section planes)

Pros

I used ANSYS extensively for the analysis of mechanical components. ANSYS APDL is easy to use and follows step-by-step procedures. Other platforms of ANSYS like the fluent is also very versatile. The software can be used to analyze simple to extremely complicated processes and structures.

Cons

The documentation is not very good and getting help about projects and analyses is a bit difficult at the start. The software is memory intensive and requires performance computers for smooth operation.

Pros

The user interface of the software is very good. It has all the tools to perform Explicit and Implicit Analysis. Mesh generation is easy to use and in the newer version, you can easily create complex geometry.
Good software to analyze brittle materials.

Cons

The material library is not that updated for explicit materials and it could have been improved. Apart from that, there are fewer tools for postprocessing and it could have been improved. Postprocessing is the most important part of the analysis and ANSYS has some limitations in postprocessing.

Pros

After working with this vendor for years I can say we have had the best support from them. Most requests are handled without issue and always willing to work with us.

Cons

Learning curve is very steep and even with documentation some of the features need support assistance. I also find it difficult to support each release separately for every user. In most cases it is easier to skip the initial and dot 2 release.

Pros

It has a great feature of designing and modelling of your need. It also has online tutoring about drawing if the user don't know how to use the software. This software has very high accuracy.

Cons

Although it is a great designing software, but there can be still some improvement in the structure modelling part. Everything except this is awesome.

Pros

powerful - no competitor can compete with this environment. It's best when it comes to user friendly design, performing actual calculation on server and when doing postprocessing.

Cons

definitely price tag is rather high. it probably is not that accessible for small business because of that.

Pros

Ansys has so many module to run analysis what do you need.

Cons

You must be careful when preparation of analysis. You will forgot the tools and details If you don't use this program continuously.

Pros

It is good software for electrical engineers and it is helpful in modeling and testing of new apparatus and its behavior under different conditions . It is very easy to learn and there are many resources available help in learning it efficiently.

Cons

The interface is a bit confusing for new user and for beginners, it is difficult to obtain desired results. there is a need of little improvement in help.