Ansys SpaceClaim Reviews

The modeling software you need.

Comments: Overall, ANSYS SpaceClaim allows users to repair models, make modifications, and prepare geometries for further analysis.

Pros:

What I like about this software is its ability to perform modeling operations quickly and efficiently. You can modify geometries by rotating or resizing them.

Cons:

I think ANSYS SpaceClaim is a powerful and user-friendly tool; therefore, I don't find any aspects of it that I dislike.

Spacelaim above all other modeling software

Pros:

Fast, friendly user interface, parametric modeling, optimization, we can spend more time addressing actual engineering problems rather than modeling on software.

Cons:

design tree is missing (commands that we use). That can be enabled in other way but should have been a default feature.

Spaceclaim just isn't as intuitive as other CAD packages

Pros:

SpaceClaim is nice for what it can do well - quick changes to geometry within workbench. But that's it.

Cons:

Anything remotely more complex than changing the size of a fillet or a hole is going to be a pain to do in spaceclaim. I'd recommend almost any other software instead.

Ansys SpaceClaim: Best Model Cleanup Tool for Design Validations

Comments: The overall experience with Ansys SpaceClaim is very good and it helps me to make any small changes very quickly and reiterate the simulation quickly and easily.

Pros:

Ansys SpaceClaim helps in easy modification of design and also heavily helps in design simplification. The wide variety of tools available helps in creating and removing features and also for splitting and joining two surfaces. The thing which I like the most is the convenience which it provides as it becomes so easy to make simple design changes then and there and reiterate the simulation.

Cons:

Ansys SpaceClaim fulfill all the requirements which it intends to and with time, it has improved a lot. The least that I like is its user interface.

Professional 3D modeling and simulation tool

Comments: I have worked with SolidWorks for design 3D models. But when it comes to simulation Solidworks have very limited options. Then seniors suggest me to use ANSYS for the simulation purposes. More advanced simulations can be modelled with ANSYS. It is a great tool. Plenty of tutorials can be found online. Correctly following the design steps will lead to successful simulation.

Pros:

This tool is recommended by most of the professional experts for the simulation of 3D models. Basic operations are very similar to ordinary CAD tools. Advanced simulations can be modelled and simulated. Lot of tutorials and documentation are available on the internet.

Cons:

It requires basic mechanical engineering knowledge there for not much suitable for beginners. Highly advanced tool than other CAD tools. Simulations require a lot of processing power and time. Therefore it is hard to run simulations on Laptops.

Space claim is most user friendly

Pros:

User friendly, Highly efficient editing properties.

Cons:

Assembly constraints issue facing during assly.

My. Best software for electrical and electronics designs.

Comments: I make use of Ansys design software for electrical and electronics circuit modelling and designs.

Pros:

All features incorporated into Ansys spaceclaim suite me and proved to be useful to me.

Cons:

I don't have any regrets or any hassle using Ansys spaceclaim software for my designs.

Ansys SpaceClaim Overview

Pros:

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:

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 for all Engineering fields

Comments: I used this software for my Master's degree research. it provided me with satisfactory results and helped to save a lot of my time. these results were compared with experimental results and they almost matched.

Pros:

First of all this software is not for specific engineering it can be used by every engineering department. it contains different types of tools that can fulfill the requirements of all engineering fields. it is also a user-friendly software and complete user guidance is available. This software has the ability to accept geometries designed in other softwares. this software basically consists of four different steps. first is a Modular design where the user can design his/her own geometry. The second step consists of meshing where geometry is divided into smaller portions to apply the required equation solvers. the third step is setup where boundary conditions are applied. the last step contains results where it can be analyzed through tabular or graphical representation.

Cons:

This software is very heavy and requires a powerful computing power for accurate results. it crushes during simulations after which you will have to restart all of your work.

Handy CAD inside a CAE

Pros:

Top Level simulation software like ANSYS, Msc etc, expects us to have design file ready for analysis, the option to edit our design inside a CAE software is very minimal. SpaceClaim is a boon in such cases where you can open it within your ANSYS Mechanical and modify if any changes are needed and then proceed with further analysis, SpaceClaim is one of the good CAD tools with which we can build robust models from scratch for analysis. It becomes extremely powerful when used with ANSYS

Cons:

We have mostly used the student version of Ansys and SpaceClaim failed to import some models which were build in other softwares like CREO or SOILDWORKS, that is the main issue which we faces

Very complete design tool

Comments: Overal, spaceclaim is a great and complete tool for CAD and CFD model development.

Pros:

Ansys Spaceclaim is my go-to CAD software for designing parts and building CFD models. It offers a convenient, interactive, and user-friendly experience. The software allows me to create and modify complex geometries with ease, making the design process efficient and effective. Its intuitive interface and powerful tools make it a valuable tool in my engineering workflow.

Cons:

A big drawbacks of Spaceclaim is its relatively high cost compared to other CAD software options. Additionally, some users may find that the software lacks certain advanced features.

Ansys SpaceClaim 2023 _ User Review

Pros:

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.

Cons:

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

Review About Ansys SpaceClaim

Comments: Oveall experience was exciting as it helped me in developing my product model and I enloyed using this software.

Pros:

The thing which grabbed my attention was its unique and modern features. I hadn't ever used any software much advanced in features like ANSYS SpaceClaim. It helped me in developing model for finalyear project.

Cons:

It is difficult to use but once you give proper time in learning its feature and tools it becomes interesting to use.

Robust FEA software for modeling and experimental verification

Comments: Getting past the initial learning curve of knowing how to properly setup a simulation, without over-constraining the system, can be quite frustrating. But when done properly, with help from experts and online resources, the end results can be extremely valuable for research and design applications in engineering, and can help guide future design improvements.

Pros:

The numerous features available in ANSYS make it essential for design verification and modeling. As a graduate researcher, designing a new experimental apparatus necessitates knowing the potential loading that will be imposed on the system, and even the flow field analysis (checking for laminar flow). ANSYS provides enough online resources to quickly learn how to create a model, create an adequate mesh, and setup the proper boundary and load conditions for the analysis. The end results have aided in improving engineering designs. I highly recommend learning and being exposed to ANSYS early as an engineer.

Cons:

The overall interface is not that user-friendly at first. A lot of the different setup parameters, whether meshing, boundary conditions, load conditions, physical constants, or mesh type, are all often found on their own separate drop-down window, which makes navigating between different settings and properly setting up the model quite confusing at first. The built-in modeling functions are also not robust enough to model anything complex. It is definitely recommended to import a model from a devoted CAD program.

Ansys Student Review

Comments: I used Ansys Static Structural during an internship involving FEM Static Structural Analysis and got hands on experience with modelling 3D software on Design Modeler and Space Claim. I also used the Static Structural interface and performed structural simulations. The software is very capable in all respects and I learned why companies enjoy using the product.
Following that, I started experimenting with fluid simulations using Fluent, and was even more impressed. I used Ansys Fluent for a research paper during my final year of University, that eventually got published as well.

Pros:

1) It has extremely clean and simple UI. 2) It has a wide range of functionalities. Personally I used Fluent and Static Structural for my purposes. 3) Most Universities are affiliated to Ansys, thus giving access to Students to learn its various functionalities with ease. 4) Extremely innovative software with UDF capabilities that allows for a lot of customization and very complicated simulations to be performed with relative ease. 5) Would highly recommend for academic as well as industrial purpose.

Cons:

1) Only issue I had is with the free trial version. The software is amazing in every respect, but the free trial allows for very few mesh resolution. Despite free trial being for learning purposes only, it hinders the ability of a student to learn useful insights from their simulations, such as verifying the accuracy. Ansys should allow Students especially using the free version, to experiment more with the software by relaxing certain constrictions on their free version.

TUI is the best way to use all features of Fluent

Comments: ANSYS Fluent is my primary tool for CFD. It has a better correlation with physical world. Always we see most similar results between CAE and Test.

Pros:

ANSYS Fluent is a well-known CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) Software in the industry. It's using by wide-range of companies from automotive, aviation, defense, marine, agriculture, chemistry, ...etc. industries. It has a well oriented graphical user interface (GUI). You can easily set the type of CAE analyses and boundary conditions. If you need a quick setup for your CAE case, you should use Text-User-Interface (TUI). You should write your commands into a text file and execute on the computing cluster. That's the easy way to run an analysis.

Cons:

It is so hard to debug the TUI errors. You could spend much resource (CPU) for this kind of stuff because it takes so long time.

Robust structural and thermal simulation tool

Comments: Ansys constantly develops new tools and techniques for fast & accurate simulations. If you have a team of engineers who need advanced simulation capabilities with simple UI, it's the best simulation tool available.

Pros:

Ansys is an industry leading software for structural and thermal similation. It's modular approach to setting up multi-physics simulation makes it easy and intuitive to use even for beginner users. But don't let its simplicity fool you. If you know what you are doing it can pretty much let you adjust every single simulation parameter from meshing to solver settings. Geometry cleaning / preparation and meshing is perhaps the most time consuming aspect of running a simulation. Ansys' adaptive mesh refinement does an outstanding job of meshing the geometry automatically which is great for a first pass analysis. You can pass results from one simulation to other just by dragging and dropping an arrow in UI

Cons:

Unlike Abaqus which includes everything in one single license, you will need to purchase different modules for advanced simulations (non-linear, dynamic, fatigue etc.) which can be very expensive.

A useful product for many types of analysis

Comments: I use it in both work & educational studies widely, while solving vehicle system problems coming from the field. Before making any physical changes, I can first run an analysis to see the results which saves time and money.

Pros:

It has too many different tools embedded which allows one to perform different types of analyses ranging from structural to CFD, or even electrical and thermal management. One can also create his/her own models and use the meshing tool without needing any other application.

Cons:

Some of its tools allocates too much memory of computer while some other tools do not, which appears to be an optimization issue.

ANSYS SpaceClaim Review

Comments: Great

Pros:

ANSYS SpaceClaim is a great tool for creating and modifying 3D geometry. It also great tool for preparing geometry for FEA simulation.

Cons:

It will be great to have inbuilt videos/demos for help with features.

Ansys Fluent: OK for aerodynamics, NOK for aeroacoustics

Comments: I used Ansys Fluent. My main focus was aeroacoustics. But I also used it for aerodynamics simulations.

Pros:

I used this tool for Fluent. Aerodynamics simulations are nice and easy. I got used to it very fast. And cheap.

Cons:

Aeroacoustics capability is not effective for 1:1 scale vehicle (car) models. Actually, it is not a problem of the tool, but the method it uses. I prefer LBM based softwares compared to N-S solutions. LBM is more practical in terms of time, but expensive.

Good CAD for ANSYS

Comments: Good overall experience with Ansys SpaceClaim. Although, I hope ANSYS does not forget about Design Modeler and make SpaceClaim the exclusive CAD package in Workbench.

Pros:

What I find great about ANSYS SpaceClaim is its ease of integration with other application under the ANSYS Workbench software. This allows the user to complete the geometry and prepare it for CFD setup directly from the CAD software. In addition, the continuous support and updates, as well as the nice user interface adds to the software overall quality.

Cons:

There are some aspects of SpaceClaim that I don't particularly like. They're mostly not related to the software itself, but rather the type of CAD methodology used. For example I prefer highly parametric design, as well as feature based CAD modelling.

3D modeling and simulation CFD

Pros:

During my engineering, I used several software such as Solidwoeks, Katia or programming on MAtlab and Fortran, but my discovery of Ansys changed and made my work of solving equations for mechanical problems easier. More complex simulations can be modelled with Ansys. Ansys contains several products depending on the application areas. Tutorials of all kinds are available online and free of charge. A free version is available for students.

Cons:

The only downside is to provide a computing station in order to take advantage of Ansys products especially in 3D modeling.

Reliable CFD Analysis Tool For Vehicle Body Design

Comments: We are using Fluent to create a flow model of vehicle dynamic in order to obtain related air resistance and improve our vehicle body design. It's quite useful and reliable, general results are %98 identical with wind tunnel results which are measured via tools.

Pros:

Reliable data for CFD analysis in pre-test phase.

Cons:

It requires very high computer specification for seamless experience.

ANSYS Workbench is just amazing

Comments: ANSYS has gone and made a designer's job easier. I mean,most designers will agree that undertaking analysis the conventional way is, lets be honest, way too tedious in this era. Now ANSYS has gone and made things much simpler for us. And with the user friendly GUI of the Workbench, ANSYS has taken ease and reliability of analysis several notches up. That being said, it is also to be noted that with the above mentioned user-friendliness inclusions has enhanced the potency of the software. The accuracy and reliability of solutions dished out by the software is spot on. Also for small to medium sized analysis (which is done most of the time), ANSYS does not take a toll on the PC. Analysis times are quite fast. Overall a great software to have for analysis, simulations, design optimization, design verification, etc. This, coupled with decades of development of this software makes it one of the must haves for any design organization.

Pros:

Excellent GUI. Very user friendly. High accuracy and reliability. Has numerous modules for all types of analysis.

Cons:

Reading mesh of imported geometry should be worked upon a little bit. Several instances have occurred wherein mesh was not read correctly leading to waste of time.

Great for simulation and analysis

Pros:

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

Cons:

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