# Abaqus Reviews **Vendor:** Dassault Systemes **Category:** [Simulation & CAE Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/simulation-cae) **Average Rating:** 4.3/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 54 ## About Abaqus The Abaqus Unified FEA product suite offers powerful and complete solutions for both routine and sophisticated engineering problems covering a vast spectrum of industrial applications. ## Abaqus Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users find the **ease of use** in Abaqus enhances their experience, especially in meshing and file updates. (2 reviews) - Users highlight the **unmatched reliability** of Abaqus for complex simulations, consistently delivering accurate results in challenging scenarios. (2 reviews) - Users value the **unmatched accuracy** of Abaqus, achieving reliable results in complex simulations often missing in other tools. (1 reviews) - Users find **meshing techniques easy** in Abaqus, particularly for 2D tet and hex mesh, enhancing simulation efficiency. (1 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users find Abaqus to be **not user-friendly** , struggling with its complexity and limited support for certain options. (2 reviews) - Users express frustration with the **preprocessing workflow limitations** in Abaqus, citing difficulties in meshing and geometry editing. (1 reviews) - Users express significant frustration with **complex geometry** in Abaqus, particularly regarding clunky geometry editing and manual cleanup. (1 reviews) - Users find the **limited options** in Abaqus problematic, making it challenging to utilize its capabilities effectively. (1 reviews) - Users often face **meshing issues** due to tedious manual cleanup and a lack of intuitive geometry editing tools. (1 reviews) - Surface Modelling (1 reviews) ## Abaqus Reviews ### 1. Advanced solver for implicit/explicit analysis **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mariusz K. | Senior Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 18, 2026 **What do you like best about Abaqus?** Compared to other FEA solvers, it’s easier to read the input file, and I like being able to use defined names instead of numbers (as in the Nastran family of solvers). Very helpful is the nearly full integration between explicit and implicit solvers. **What do you dislike about Abaqus?** Preprocessor: Despite its capabilities, it’s very difficult to work with. Many options can’t be read from the solver input file because they aren’t supported. So, to preprocess models, you need a good preprocessor **What problems is Abaqus solving and how is that benefiting you?** If you need to run implicit and explicit analysis from one environment, this is the solver you need. That said, competitors are developing fast, so it’s worth keeping an eye on the alternatives. ### 2. Accurate Nonlinear Results and a Logical Debugging Experience **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pavankumar T. | Lead stress engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 14, 2026 **What do you like best about Abaqus?** Abaqus provides accurate results for nonlinear problems, and the debugging process is very logical, which I like the most. **What do you dislike about Abaqus?** It’s a little complex for new users, and it usually comes with a high cost and requires substantial computing resources. **What problems is Abaqus solving and how is that benefiting you?** Abaqus can solve linear and non-linear static problems, as well as linear dynamic analyses, for a model. This allows me to evaluate the model’s structural and modal behaviour, which helps in improving the design. ### 3. Easy 2D Tet & Hex Meshing, Excellent for Bolted Joint Analysis **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** sunil s. | Senior Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 15, 2026 **What do you like best about Abaqus?** What i have felt is like its very easy to do 2d tet meshing and hex mesh using abaqus. Coming to simulation its the best for bolted joint analysis and its quite easy to update the BC in .inp file. **What do you dislike about Abaqus?** The UI can be made more user friendly. I will say there nothig to dislike about abaqus. **What problems is Abaqus solving and how is that benefiting you?** In my research, Abaqus plays a critical role in accurately simulating real-world mechanical behavior under realistic loading and boundary conditions. All my bolted joint and bladed disc analysis I solve in abaqus. ### 4. A Powerful Tool for Tackling Frictional and Nonlinear FEA Problems **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Abhishek V. | Engineering Analyst, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 06, 2026 **What do you like best about Abaqus?** A very powerful tool to solve frictional and non linear FEA problems **What do you dislike about Abaqus?** Options can be a bit more user friendly like Ansys **What problems is Abaqus solving and how is that benefiting you?** Non linear Finite element simulations for aero engines ### 5. It was a excellent program for analysis **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kubilay . | Project Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 28, 2022 **What do you like best about Abaqus?** It was helpful for static and modal analysis **What do you dislike about Abaqus?** UX was too complicated for beginners. there are a lot of options **What problems is Abaqus solving and how is that benefiting you?** I used for some tensile and stress analysis and it was a great oppurtunity ### 6. Multiphysics and explicit analyses on Abaqus **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** TUNCAY K. | R&D Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 20, 2022 **What do you like best about Abaqus?** It was easy to learn the GUI. Many tutorials and documents are available to model complicated materials and physical conditions even in multiphysical and explicit dynamics problems. **What do you dislike about Abaqus?** Once I modeled a stamping process of a metal blank with punch tool and I would like to see the stress distribution and deformation on the punch. However the punch had to be modeled as a rigid part. **What problems is Abaqus solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have been solving Metal forming processes mostly such as rollforming, rollbending, flanging etc. I had chance to compare it with Ls-Dyna and Ansys Apdl. Abaqus has more user friendly interface. ### 7. I am using Abaqus product from past 4 years and found very useful in solving structural problems. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Atul T. | CAE Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 13, 2022 **What do you like best about Abaqus?** I like Abaqus for its material modeling and complex problem-solving capabilities. I had personally utilized it for solving the sheet metal forming analysis and prediction. The obtained results were having good correlation with the experimental results. **What do you dislike about Abaqus?** I didn’t like the meshing capabilities of the Abaqus. The meshing tools could be improved and made user friendly to reduce the required time and cost. These is scope of improvement on the pre-processing side. **What problems is Abaqus solving and how is that benefiting you?** Abaqus have capabilities in solving the complex problem not limited to the Mechanical and Electrical field. The problems related to the static and dynamic conditions, thermal conditions can be effectively modeled and solved in Abaqus. I personally benefited for the prediction of the sheet metal behavior in sheet metal forming analysis. ### 8. A decent software with lots of functionalities **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Cherian J. | Facade Structural Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 18, 2022 **What do you like best about Abaqus?** Abaqus is a multipurpose software with a very excellent capability for structural analysis, finite element modeling and analysis, and most importantly non-linear analysis. It's also the best value-for-money program considering its capabilities. Another best part about Abaqus is , it has an inbuilt python program shell. That is , if you start recording it will automatically write the equivalent python script for your model. So if you want to modified or automate your work flow, its super easy. **What do you dislike about Abaqus?** The user interface is a bit boring. Also the flexibility of the output files to read in other finite element programs is poor. Another issue I found is the lack of study materials. ie, if you get stuck while modeling / analyzing, it's difficult to pull out the exact reason and rectify the issue by a google search as we do for other software. **What problems is Abaqus solving and how is that benefiting you?** I did FSI problems ( Fluid structure Interaction ) . I modeled the sloshing analysis of a propellent tank with fuel in it for my project in my master of structural engineering thesis. Unlike Dytran and Nastran which require high computing power, Abaqus can run and return you an accurate results in any decent Latops. ### 9. It was quite good experience learning and using it for solving real problems **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sachin A. | Senior Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 27, 2022 **What do you like best about Abaqus?** Physics can be captured with provided options. It is simpler to use than other software, and we need not switch between various interfaces for a model, meshing and solving. Abundant training materials are available. **What do you dislike about Abaqus?** Though the user interface is simple, it is not modern. Also, the license cost is relatively high compared to other tools. which may be one of the primary reasons why people are looking for alternatives. **What problems is Abaqus solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have used it to solve static problems. as well as I have used it for crack propagation and fatigue life determination issues. I have also used it for dynamic problems. ### 10. Abaqus from the perspective of a student **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Aviation & Aerospace | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 16, 2022 **What do you like best about Abaqus?** The best thing about Abaqus, from the perspective of someone like me, is that all the modules that make up the simulation are listed for you on the left side of the screen. This means that it is very simple for someone to find out where they have gone wrong, unlike other more complicated programs. **What do you dislike about Abaqus?** The most annoying part about Abaqus is its limited meshing capabilities. Changing the mesh is very long and tedious, and sometimes your computer won't have enough processing power for more advanced tasks. Ansys, for example, has an entire module dedicated to customizing the mess, and it is very detailed and much easier to use/understand, at least for me. I also dislike how limited the program is in generating a 3D object. I usually designed the object in a program like SOLIDWORKS and then imported it to Abaqus. It's an unnecessary hassle that could be solved by having the tools available in SOLIDWORKS imported into Abaqus. The same company makes both after all. **What problems is Abaqus solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps solve FEA (Finite Element Analysis) through the raw computing power of modern-day devices. Solving these problems by hand is tedious and sometimes impossible as the matrices get so big and disgusting. The program also helps display the object before and after it's deformities have been applied. The problem can be customized to my liking as well as animated and color-coded to help deliver a more understandable answer. ### 11. A powerful CAE software **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tuan N. | Senior Product Development Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 14, 2022 **What do you like best about Abaqus?** The workflow of Abaqus is so straightforward. The material library is enormous; there are many predefined material models. Solvers are strong and allow users to adjust many parameters. **What do you dislike about Abaqus?** Error messages are long and complicated to access. Fearture (edge, surface, vertice) numbering is not consistent between versions. Sometime license server stucks. **What problems is Abaqus solving and how is that benefiting you?** Quasi-static mechanical simulation for durability analysis, Explicit dynamics for metal cutting simulation... Abaqus helps me obtain calculation results that are close to the experiment. ### 12. Best software for analysis specially civil engineering components **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dr. Bindesh N. | ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 27, 2022 **What do you like best about Abaqus?** Easy user interface. Previse and high quality results. Capable of handling all different types of analysis such as dynamic static thermal,fire, moving load with fortran code. Customized material models using fortran **What do you dislike about Abaqus?** Meshing of complex geometry. Use of tet mesh for complex geometry sometimes gives error such as negative volume of elements which is very difficult to handle. Sometimes impossible and no way to resolve such error **What problems is Abaqus solving and how is that benefiting you?** Analysis of components and structures for both civil and mechanical. During my research work i have analysed vehicle bridge interaction problem in amaqus. Also several other problems ### 13. Abaqus is effective tool **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ahmet Orkun M. | Body Exterior Engineering, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 28, 2022 **What do you like best about Abaqus?** Abaqus is effective tool so as to evaluate FE models, structural interface is user friendly. It is comperatively easy to embed the material cards of materials. **What do you dislike about Abaqus?** When it compared to other FE programs, it is easy to use toolbars & kits but i need to perform more clicks than other competitors of Abaqus, it is creating timingwise create insufficiency. **What problems is Abaqus solving and how is that benefiting you?** Updating models were always trouble some ,yet fixing and updating is easy in abaqus. Correlation rate of CAE FE analysis and physicals test results are considerable better than some FE competitors. ### 14. More engineering, less user-friend interface **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ahmet Emin A. | Structural Analysis Engineer (TF-X), Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 28, 2022 **What do you like best about Abaqus?** I'm analyzing basic models in Abaqus, it's best in non-linear cases. Tools and engineering selections are much more clear (up to matrix solution method etc.) than other softwares. **What do you dislike about Abaqus?** Geometry interface is not good. I cannot make small geometrical changes comfortably. Mesh settings and check details must be improve. **What problems is Abaqus solving and how is that benefiting you?** Stress results for local areas. I cannot trust for whole geometry and also it's really hard to edit geometry and mesh in Abaqus. I prefer to create a geometry which represent my actual one. ### 15. The program is great for any simulation problem and the results is better than any software **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** amr h. | Research And Development Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 20, 2022 **What do you like best about Abaqus?** I think the best thing the program cable of is solve any problems related to fracture mechanics and composite also can perform nonlinear analysis, you can define your own friction law even nolinear model,contact parameters as a function of pressure,gap and time! **What do you dislike about Abaqus?** one of the downsides us modeling fatigue problems XFEM needed to be taken into consideration. **What problems is Abaqus solving and how is that benefiting you?** it solve any problems related to fracture mechanics and composite, which help me in a great way in industry field, also the values come out is too much accurate. ### 16. One of the best tools for Structural simulation **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shanmugam N. | Mechanical Engineer, Renewables & Environment, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 23, 2022 **What do you like best about Abaqus?** Best for Non-linear structural analysis, Like crash simulation, Wave impact, etc. **What do you dislike about Abaqus?** The computational fluid dynamics part can be added **What problems is Abaqus solving and how is that benefiting you?** Crash simulation with Material nonlinearity is excellent. Mesh distortion happens while the simulation is much more realistic ### 17. useful, simple and beautiful application. required for analysis. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ömer Faruk A. | Mekanik Tasarım Mühendisi, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 28, 2022 **What do you like best about Abaqus?** It's nice to see the analysis ahead of time. **What do you dislike about Abaqus?** it's really takes a long time to learn.. **What problems is Abaqus solving and how is that benefiting you?** We measured the strength of a piece. we solved the flow problem ### 18. Capabilities of software **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jayesh N. | Asst. General Manager Product & Technology Development, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 04, 2023 **What do you like best about Abaqus?** Non linear capabilities, work flow, technical documentation, **What do you dislike about Abaqus?** GUI can be upgraded and can be made more user friendly **What problems is Abaqus solving and how is that benefiting you?** Non linear contact, forming process, rolling process ### 19. it was really professional and helpful to get my results. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dr. Amine H. | Design Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 22, 2022 **What do you like best about Abaqus?** the database and the variety of the library command. **What do you dislike about Abaqus?** nothing special, only the interface could be changed **What problems is Abaqus solving and how is that benefiting you?** every little problem i had ### 20. great simulation tool for finite element alaysis **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kiran Kumar Kabotu m. | Researcher, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 27, 2022 **What do you like best about Abaqus?** Abaqus tool is mainly used for nonlinear finite element simulations **What do you dislike about Abaqus?** Abaqus tool has a limited solver option. **What problems is Abaqus solving and how is that benefiting you?** nonlinear, metal-cutting simulations ### 21. Design team leader **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sherif T. | Design Team leader, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 20, 2022 **What do you like best about Abaqus?** Static and dynamic analysis Accept meshing from hypermesh **What do you dislike about Abaqus?** Bad interface Not easy to be learned Need a supercomputer **What problems is Abaqus solving and how is that benefiting you?** Static and dynamic analysis ### 22. Best CAE software for Implicit Nonlinear FEA **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Aviation & Aerospace | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 13, 2022 **What do you like best about Abaqus?** Abaqus Contact definitions are the best. Also the material model library is broader than any other software package. **What do you dislike about Abaqus?** Preprocessing in Abaqus is way behind pre-postprocessing programmes like Hypermesh and Ansa. **What problems is Abaqus solving and how is that benefiting you?** Abaqus is best for Nonlinear contact, material nonlinearity and Advanced material models (viscoelastic, hyperelastic etc). It benefited to my job for Nonlinear static analysis. ### 23. It has an easy access to professional tools needed to accomplish the work. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Research | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 10, 2022 **What do you like best about Abaqus?** The ability to find the tools visually and to process the results in various ways. **What do you dislike about Abaqus?** It is expensive to get for students, and the number of tools can confuse students. **What problems is Abaqus solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps in testing how to produce a particular material which decreases experimental testing and therefore the costs of production. ### 24. Non linear buckling analysis of Icosahedron composite shell under external pressure **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mitansh D. | Graduate Teaching Assistant, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 09, 2020 **What do you like best about Abaqus?** Abaqus is pretty straightforward and very sophisticated while applying boundary conditions, generating a mesh and creating a step. Also, the python script usage to run the Abaqus is pretty convenient too. I like how the software has different mesh options and you have ability to select each face with different mesh type and mesh size. **What do you dislike about Abaqus?** There was nothing to dislike. But It would be great to have a feature to generate the ABD matrix for the Composite shells based on user inputs in the software itself. **Recommendations to others considering Abaqus:** Please use this software and give it a try. It is definitely worth the time and money. Help section in Abaqus is also well maintained so f you do not have any past experience in using this software , help section would help you in all the possible way **What problems is Abaqus solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are trying to get the buckling pressure for an icosahedron composite shell under external pressure. GUI is really great. It was really easy to get multiple buckling pressure based on various external pressure magnitude. ### 25. Abaqus is best! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Museums and Institutions | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 07, 2022 **What do you like best about Abaqus?** Give the most accurate simulation answer. **What do you dislike about Abaqus?** For analysis setup, it is very time taking process. **What problems is Abaqus solving and how is that benefiting you?** My project is on 3D prining. So it gives the option for additive manufacturing. ### 26. Nice **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Airlines/Aviation | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 13, 2022 **What do you like best about Abaqus?** great help and easy to use, the shortcuts and the user interface **What do you dislike about Abaqus?** large size and the performance is a bit slow **What problems is Abaqus solving and how is that benefiting you?** finite element analysis ### 27. One of the best FEA package present in market **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rahul S. | Asso prof, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 18, 2021 **What do you like best about Abaqus?** One of the best software for nonlinear analysis. Various material model present in software. Ability to analyse for latest model by using VUMAT or UMAT. **What do you dislike about Abaqus?** I May Say its complete package, so bit higher cost compared with other competitors. **What problems is Abaqus solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mostly solving problems related to CRASH or IMPACT analysis on composites and metal structure. Easy to use, the Latest material model (Hasin Damage Model ) for composite is available for analysis with shell elements. Want to use solid element! VUMAT is available in the public domain. So one of the Best software available for Impact Analysis which is equally qualified to solve other nonlinear analysis. ### 28. Effective simulation software for research and industrial purpose **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sai Preetham Reddy A. | PhD research assistant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 09, 2022 **What do you like best about Abaqus?** The step by step modules for developing a model. The easy convergence solutions for explicit analysis **What do you dislike about Abaqus?** Large deformation problems are difficult to be solved by Abaqus. The remeshing algorithm needs to be updated or enhanced. **What problems is Abaqus solving and how is that benefiting you?** Structural analysis Sheet metal forming FEA Solutions are proving accurate with the experimental results ### 29. Abaqus is an FEM Tool to solve liner & non Linear problems. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Design | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 15, 2019 **What do you like best about Abaqus?** Abaqus is the most powerful FEM tool in the mechanical field. It has high accuracy regarding simulation results. It can be used for linear or non- linear problem. **What do you dislike about Abaqus?** It is a post-processing tool. It's not good in pre-processing. **Recommendations to others considering Abaqus:** its meshing is very good. we could be meshed as per our requirement. **What problems is Abaqus solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have used it for stress and fracture analysis problem. ### 30. Extremely great FEA software **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Domagoj V. | Senior Expert Associate, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 22, 2021 **What do you like best about Abaqus?** Simulation capabilities, various material types, UMAT, non-linear analysis, material database, solidworks integration **What do you dislike about Abaqus?** Can be hard to start using, not user friendly as other softwares **What problems is Abaqus solving and how is that benefiting you?** non linear simulations, composite analysis, large deflections, bending, torsion problems, meshing, topology optimization, shape optimization ### 31. Best Simulation Software **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Engr. Ibrahim O. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 10, 2020 **What do you like best about Abaqus?** I mostly like the simulation capability and the speed of creating very difficult elements in meshing while performing Finite Element Analysis. I have used this software in my bachelors program of engineering. It is very fast while creating geometry and running the simulations. I have also worked with Solidworks, which generally crashes as the file gets bigger. So it is best for simulations. **What do you dislike about Abaqus?** Well, it is the best software but sometimes Graphical User Interface. I am sure they are working on it. I have also seen a trend tha mostly ABAQUS is used or academic purpose while software's like Solidworks, Ansys, CATIA they are used in the industry. **Recommendations to others considering Abaqus:** For any simulation study, it is one of the best software's. I rate Abaqus more over Ansys because of better Graphical User Interface (among them( and better speed. **What problems is Abaqus solving and how is that benefiting you?** In my Engineering Bachelors program at NED University, we have a course of Finite Element Analysis and we use this software quite a bit. We solve some very basic problems of applying loads and calculating the deflections. Truss problems of calculating stresses and deflections. I find this sotware amazing in simulation studies, FEA anaysis, CFD analysis etc. ### 32. Positive Experience **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Soheil H. | Graduate Research Assistant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 09, 2020 **What do you like best about Abaqus?** 1. The features are comprehensive and cover various types of analysis. 2. Options to run each simulation are farely flexible. 3. Powerful features for studying nonlinear materials. **What do you dislike about Abaqus?** 1. The user interface is not friendly, e.g., CAD section, assembly section, visualization menus, export options, and etc. I would say Abaqus is very difficult to learn and work with. 2. The tutorial is also confusing for starters. I personally used YouTube videos to learn. 3. Even though Abaqus' options are extensive but sometimes makes it confusing for the user to choose one or distinguish the difference for his/her studies. **Recommendations to others considering Abaqus:** I would recommend to break down the problem in smaller steps before implementing the whole in Abaqus, otherwise it can get confusing. **What problems is Abaqus solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use Abaqus to model nonlinear materials and solve problems in soft robotics. I found the flexibility of the tools to define the material properties as the best benefit. ### 33. Reviewing on basis of my term project in Masters. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 24, 2020 **What do you like best about Abaqus?** The overall procedure of defining a problem is superb. Like what we do in ansys it's too Messy. Here in abaqus we can edit everything in a single window which is not possible in ansys. I have tried simulation of wire drawing process and found that the difficulty level is more in ansys as compare to abaqus. **What do you dislike about Abaqus?** Modeling software should be more powerful, and sometimes software didn't accept my .sldprt model while sometimes I'm not able to apply constraints on a sketch. **Recommendations to others considering Abaqus:** We can go for this simulation package, it has so many advantages over other softwares and also it's easier than other available packages. **What problems is Abaqus solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have done simulation of wire drawing process and simulation of rotating disc and found that the nature of the result is same as we required. With proper graphs and charts. ### 34. An effective dynamic solver **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sandeep Kr. M. | Senior Design Engineer, R&D( Robotics), Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 25, 2020 **What do you like best about Abaqus?** Results for ductile metals are quite accurate **What do you dislike about Abaqus?** Graphics and UI could have been much better **Recommendations to others considering Abaqus:** The stress and dynamic results are pretty convincing and close to the reality. You must give it a try and compare it with lab tests. **What problems is Abaqus solving and how is that benefiting you?** Majorly stress simulation for the ductile materials. And I observed that the results are pretty much close to the actual scenario. ### 35. One of the best software for FEA simulations **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** GEETH J. | CAE Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 10, 2020 **What do you like best about Abaqus?** High performance computing even with very large number of elements and it has a simple user interface that anyone can get a grab on **What do you dislike about Abaqus?** Nothing that I can really think off. Get frustrating with the convergence issue , but again that can happen with other software’s too **Recommendations to others considering Abaqus:** Highly recommend this software who are interested in the field of CAE **What problems is Abaqus solving and how is that benefiting you?** Linear , Non linear , static and dynamic analysis ### 36. An expert Mechatronic Engineer, using different simulation softwares **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 10, 2020 **What do you like best about Abaqus?** The idea of being providing a state of the art options for contact definition, the true insight of what is actually going on not like others where you click and its done (which is often not accurate) **What do you dislike about Abaqus?** No unit creates a bit of confusion especially when creating a new material **Recommendations to others considering Abaqus:** Using Abaqus has made my life easy, i highly recommend it **What problems is Abaqus solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have solved a lot of problem, like distortion created by incoming projectile etc, It has benefited great in showing me how the material deform and break which enabled me to better design the system ### 37. Abaqus for research **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Research Server B. | Research Assistant - Welded Steel Structures, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 25, 2020 **What do you like best about Abaqus?** Capability to solve complex problem. The interface is more simplified than competitor softwares. **What do you dislike about Abaqus?** Sum bug, from time to time. But that is normal. **What problems is Abaqus solving and how is that benefiting you?** Parametric studies ! great impact in all the research aiming to provide general guidelines for the industry. ### 38. Great tool for my work **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 24, 2020 **What do you like best about Abaqus?** I use it for structural analysis and it works for me just fine. Easy to use **What do you dislike about Abaqus?** Nothing specific. Sometimes navigation seems bit complicated. It might be a little streamlined. **What problems is Abaqus solving and how is that benefiting you?** I mostly use it for structural analysis. ### 39. Abaqus the best software for structure non-linear analysis **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Carmine C. | Matlab: a very simple way to get an easier life, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 06, 2019 **What do you like best about Abaqus?** What I like most is the fact that with Abaqus you can really visualize digitally what in the real world happen from a point of view of structural analysis, so translating it in more powerful words, you can obtain results very similar to reality but with just simple commands **What do you dislike about Abaqus?** What I dislike most is the interface of the program, it is not very handy. Moreover the creation of the mesh is not so easy as it is for other software, in fact you have to cut the surface in a proper way in order to obtain a fine mesh with high quality elements **Recommendations to others considering Abaqus:** Before using Abaqus please give a read to the manuel at least for the most common commands, in order to understand well also the bulk file you create with the graphic interface. The knowledge is not essential but sometimes when you have to do some changes in your model, it is easier to use the bulk file and so the editor softare (block note, notepad...) **What problems is Abaqus solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am solving non-linear structur analys for several type of structure such as composite, sandwich panels, beams, plates and so on. It is possible to analyse also more complex structure such as the aeronautical ones which are the main field I work in. It is very useful also for the studying of vibration modes, which are used also for understading if the model has been created well ( if coincident nodes, elements, curves...are merged) ### 40. Want to do FEA the best **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 24, 2020 **What do you like best about Abaqus?** Very simple help tool to explore the adam s **What do you dislike about Abaqus?** It should be little bit more colour full **Recommendations to others considering Abaqus:** Really helpful tool for fea and complex analysis problems **What problems is Abaqus solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am basically doing FEA of crankshaft ### 41. Highly recommend **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 24, 2020 **What do you like best about Abaqus?** This software is recommended to those who are interested in the field of CAE **What do you dislike about Abaqus?** I can say that there is nothing in this regard. **What problems is Abaqus solving and how is that benefiting you?** time and cost ### 42. Best tool for doing analysis **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pankaj A. | Pankaj Attri, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 24, 2019 **What do you like best about Abaqus?** Abaqus has high performance computing, provides greater efficiency and has wide material modelling capability. It monitors the processing stage of the solver including pre-processing and post-processing stages. Linear and non-linear analysis including geometric, material and contact non-linearities can be done easily. **What do you dislike about Abaqus?** I have been using Abaqus tool for a long time now and have not been disappointed. I only had performance issues with static load **Recommendations to others considering Abaqus:** I would recommend to go through some online tutorials before using the software. Once you do a lot of practice and master it, you are going to love this due to its powerful features which would improve the efficiency of your work and increase productivity. **What problems is Abaqus solving and how is that benefiting you?** It has improved data transfer between simulations and correlation between tests and analysis results. It gives accurate results. I have used it to do linear and non linear, structural, material fracture and failure, stress and strain analysis. ### 43. Abaqus - Computer-Aided Engineering **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Niharika D. | Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 07, 2019 **What do you like best about Abaqus?** Increase your confidence in your product behavior Decrease the number of physical prototypes Shorten time to market for your new products Reduce your development costs Explore new materials Main capabilities Linear and nonlinear analysis Large deformations and contact simulations Wide range of different analysis types Scripting and GUI customization features Wide range of nonlinear material possibilities Accurate and robust solver Benefits Improved correlation between tests and analysis results Greater efficiency in model generation Improved data transfer between simulations Reduction in a company’s FEA toolset and training expenses More flexible workforce through standardization on a single complete capability for structural simulation **What do you dislike about Abaqus?** FEMs are generally great on problems with built-in variational principles. For some fully non-linear and non-divergence form problems, FEMs are still improving. On the other hand, FEMs heavily relied on numerical integration, where quadrature rules some times cause headaches. From programming point of view, FEMs are usually harder to program. The handling of mesh and the numerical integrations usually require extra work. **Recommendations to others considering Abaqus:** Abaqus/Explicit is the general-purpose finite element program that employs explicit integration scheme to solve highly nonlinear systems with many complex contacts under transient loads. **What problems is Abaqus solving and how is that benefiting you?** Linear and nonlinear analysis Large deformations and contact simulations Wide range of different analysis types Scripting and GUI customization features Wide range of nonlinear material possibilities Accurate and robust solver ### 44. Great software for nonlinear an linear analyses **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Hesam M. | Lecturer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 20, 2019 **What do you like best about Abaqus?** Meshing features is very user friendly Offer different options for setting up the problem as well as boundary conditions You can have user-defined material models implemented in the software. Gives you the ability to perform fluid-solid interaction I used the software o model the shear stresses on a heart valve for BHV replacement. It was very effective in solving problems where you face large deformations **What do you dislike about Abaqus?** Boundary conditions might be confusing I sometimes had problems for visualization of the results. It was sometimes hard to define a plane or point to see the results. It is hard to learn compared to some other FEA software so need you to send more time at first. The errors can be confusing and I sometimes got lost when i looked for issues in online forums. **Recommendations to others considering Abaqus:** If you are interested in implementing user defined materials, it is a great software. It might look a bit hard to learn in the beginning, but when you are familiar with that, it brings lots of fantastic features to the table. The good thing is that you can fluid-solid interaction with Abaqus which is a great addition on top of nonlinear FEA **What problems is Abaqus solving and how is that benefiting you?** nonlinear FEA problems such as crash and blast simulations Biomechanics problems such as cardiovascular analyses on aneurysms or heart valves. I found that especially in the case of cardiovascular problems, it is really necessary to be able to use user-defined materials and Abaqus is strong in that. ### 45. Great CAE software with a steep learning curve **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 11, 2019 **What do you like best about Abaqus?** Abaqus is great in terms of the options available for computer-aided finite element analysis and the various modules (mechanical, thermal, vibration, fluid, acoustic etc.). The new topology optimization tool TOSCA is great. The level of control available in setting up a model and analyzing is much better than other commercial softwares. **What do you dislike about Abaqus?** The learning curve is steep! It’ll take a while to figure out the various options and setup a model for analysis. The manual is helpful but new users will still have to do their own Google / YouTube search to learn the software. The options for 3D modeling are minimal and makes the process tedious! **Recommendations to others considering Abaqus:** Do not look to ABAQUS for your 3D modeling needs - you’d be better off getting an interface module to import geometry from another software like Solidworks. It’s a great software for finite element analysis and has a number of customization options for that. If you’d rather have quick results, it’s better to go with another commercial CAE software but if you have the time to play around with various options, the results you get out of Abaqus will be unmatched. **What problems is Abaqus solving and how is that benefiting you?** Non-linear finite element analysis and simulation of interaction between multiple bodies ### 46. One Solution for all your FEA Needs!! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ankit A. | Ankit Agarwal, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 05, 2019 **What do you like best about Abaqus?** The step-by-step defined procedure for setting up a FE analysis. In addition, being one of the major FE software available in market, numerous training tutorials are available over the internet for carrying out a wide variety of analysis procedures. **What do you dislike about Abaqus?** The only thing I dislike is its non-compatibility with mac OS. If it were available for mac, I'd be using it much more frequently. **Recommendations to others considering Abaqus:** For students, I'd recommend trying out the Student version (limited to 1000 nodes) first. **What problems is Abaqus solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have lost count of how many research problems I have solved with Abaqus, ranging from static, dynamic, modal, weight optimization, explicit static and dynamic analysis. The benefits are immense, since Abaqus is recognized widely in the academic community and my papers get good reviews and better visibility. ### 47. A complete environment for element analysis and computer aided engineering. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Walid A. | Founder, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 06, 2019 **What do you like best about Abaqus?** Integration of explicit analysis, switch between implicit/explicit analysis without using or leaving the platform, a very good API, a complete environment (TOSCA, fe-safe, Simpack, xFlow, xFEM) in one kit. **What do you dislike about Abaqus?** Parametric Design Language has to be done through Python. Virtual Topology can be glitchy sometimes. **Recommendations to others considering Abaqus:** If you are looking for a complete suit capable of modelling material and structural problems, ABAQUS has everything from many constitutive models to analyze the non-linear behavior. **What problems is Abaqus solving and how is that benefiting you?** we used specialized modeling/analysis capabilities to study behavioral characteristics of composites such as various impact, fracture and failure modes in aerospace. ### 48. best mechanical tool for simulation **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Aditya G. | Bhupendra Singh, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 26, 2019 **What do you like best about Abaqus?** its simulation ability and accuracy is very high. it gives a very good result in term of accuracy. the stress, strain, fatigue, deflection analysis ca be done easily. **What do you dislike about Abaqus?** sometimes it takes more time to solve a problem. it has more computer cost. **Recommendations to others considering Abaqus:** Best mechanical tool for simulation like stress, strain, def **What problems is Abaqus solving and how is that benefiting you?** stress, strain, deflection, and fracture analysis. ### 49. Integrated explicit/implicit fem tool **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sumit G. | Founder and Team Lead, Automotive, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 19, 2019 **What do you like best about Abaqus?** It is a very budget-friendly and low cost package providing tools for both explicit or implicit analysis. The cost is considerable cheaper compared to other CAE tools in the market like Ansys. **What do you dislike about Abaqus?** The visualization of the results is not great and the GUI is also very basic and not interactive. The interface can be difficult to use for beginners and takes time to learn the ropes. **Recommendations to others considering Abaqus:** If you are considering strictly implicit analysis Abaqus is a great tool, given that you have sufficient time to learn through the interface. If you are short on time, go for other user-friendly CAE packages like Ansys **What problems is Abaqus solving and how is that benefiting you?** Structural analysis problems and especially modal analysis is great in Abaqus. The governing equations can be modified to suit the problem using the python scripted APIs ### 50. Easy, efficient FEA tool **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tirth D. | Graduate Student Research Assistant, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 31, 2019 **What do you like best about Abaqus?** very good for nonlinear problems, crack propagation, dynamic implicit and explicit problems, thermal and CFD. **What do you dislike about Abaqus?** It is difficult to learn the software. Moreover, it is hard to change the design and have to rely on other software. **Recommendations to others considering Abaqus:** Watch online videos to understand the nuances. **What problems is Abaqus solving and how is that benefiting you?** Used it in a project on cargo truck rollover prevention mechanism for FEA of new concepts. ## Abaqus Discussions - [What is Abaqus used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-abaqus-used-for) - [What is Simulia Abaqus?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-simulia-abaqus) - [Is abaqus better than Ansys?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/is-abaqus-better-than-ansys) - [What is abaqus standard?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-abaqus-standard) - [What is Abaqus software used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-abaqus-software-used-for) - [View Abaqus pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/abaqus/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-15+17%3A58%3A57+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=3eba218f-aa09-4f48-b2ab-d3a7cfd8326c&secure%5Btoken%5D=1e8b92221a3b4e4d49fd883a6ed48638221b17eacf8c34ba734354d4fcd99d35&format=llm_user) ## Abaqus Integrations - [Altair Hypermesh](https://www.g2.com/products/altair-hypermesh/reviews) - [Altair HyperView](https://www.g2.com/products/altair-hyperview/reviews) - [Altair HyperWorks](https://www.g2.com/products/altair-hyperworks/reviews) ## Abaqus Features **Design** - 3D/solid modeling Tools - Drawing Tools - Editing Tools - Rendering tools **Tools** - Fluid analysis - Finite element analysis - Multibody dynamics **Work** - Discrete event modeling - Continuous event modeling - Mechanical event simulation - Manufacturing process simulation - Integrate **Environment** - Hardware support - Task - Manage Multiple Profiles - Command Clarity ## Top Abaqus Alternatives - [MATLAB](https://www.g2.com/products/matlab/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (748 reviews) - [Ansys Mechanical](https://www.g2.com/products/ansys-mechanical/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (88 reviews) - [SolidWorks Simulation](https://www.g2.com/products/solidworks-solidworks-simulation/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (58 reviews)