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Ansys SpaceClaim

By Ansys, Inc.

4.1 out of 5 stars

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Users praise the ease of learning and use of Ansys SpaceClaim, simplifying the drafting process for efficient tooling. (1 mentions)
Users highlight the ease of learning Ansys SpaceClaim, facilitating efficient tooling for sheet metal stampings. (1 mentions)
Users value the ease of learning and use in Ansys SpaceClaim, making design modifications simple and efficient. (1 mentions)
Users highlight the ease of learning with Ansys SpaceClaim, streamlining the drafting process for effective fabrication. (1 mentions)
Users value the flexible integration support of Ansys SpaceClaim, allowing easy interchange with various native CAD formats. (1 mentions)
Users experience 3D modeling issues with Ansys SpaceClaim, particularly with sheet metal and lack of parametric history. (2 mentions)

Top Pros or Advantages of Ansys SpaceClaim

1. Drawing
Users praise the ease of learning and use of Ansys SpaceClaim, simplifying the drafting process for efficient tooling.
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Nathaniel S.
NS

Nathaniel S.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

5.0/5

"I've been using Spaceclaim for over 12+ years"

What do you like about Ansys SpaceClaim?

Quite Simply, is the ease of learning and use. Great drafting process that gets the job details out to the fabricators on the shop floor. We use space

2. Ease of Learning
Users highlight the ease of learning Ansys SpaceClaim, facilitating efficient tooling for sheet metal stampings.
See 1 mentions

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Nathaniel S.
NS

Nathaniel S.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

5.0/5

"I've been using Spaceclaim for over 12+ years"

What do you like about Ansys SpaceClaim?

Quite Simply, is the ease of learning and use. Great drafting process that gets the job details out to the fabricators on the shop floor. We use space

3. Ease of Use
Users value the ease of learning and use in Ansys SpaceClaim, making design modifications simple and efficient.
See 1 mentions

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Nathaniel S.
NS

Nathaniel S.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

5.0/5

"I've been using Spaceclaim for over 12+ years"

What do you like about Ansys SpaceClaim?

Quite Simply, is the ease of learning and use. Great drafting process that gets the job details out to the fabricators on the shop floor. We use space

4. Easy Learning
Users highlight the ease of learning with Ansys SpaceClaim, streamlining the drafting process for effective fabrication.
See 1 mentions

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Nathaniel S.
NS

Nathaniel S.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

5.0/5

"I've been using Spaceclaim for over 12+ years"

What do you like about Ansys SpaceClaim?

Quite Simply, is the ease of learning and use. Great drafting process that gets the job details out to the fabricators on the shop floor. We use space

5. Integration Support
Users value the flexible integration support of Ansys SpaceClaim, allowing easy interchange with various native CAD formats.
See 1 mentions

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Luca C.
LC

Luca C.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4.5/5

"Very flexible, but not parametric"

What do you like about Ansys SpaceClaim?

Many interchange directly from to many native CAD format. Very flexible.

Top Cons or Disadvantages of Ansys SpaceClaim

1. 3D Modeling Issues
Users experience 3D modeling issues with Ansys SpaceClaim, particularly with sheet metal and lack of parametric history.
See 2 mentions

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Nathaniel S.
NS

Nathaniel S.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

5.0/5

"I've been using Spaceclaim for over 12+ years"

What do you dislike about Ansys SpaceClaim?

The sheet metal un-folding package is not very robust when it comes to blanking parts with beads in them. and will not unfold parts with contour, Like

Luca C.
LC

Luca C.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4.5/5

"Very flexible, but not parametric"

What do you dislike about Ansys SpaceClaim?

No parametric, ther's no history for change during modeling.

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Shanmugam N.
SN
Mechanical Engineer
Renewables & Environment
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Spaceclaim The Right hand of Ansys"
What do you like best about Ansys SpaceClaim?

Ease of tool interaction.

Specifically good for Cleanup of the model used for FE simulations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ansys SpaceClaim?

Not Like proper CAD tool. Because of the geometrical constraints

And also non parametric tool Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Christopher S.
CS
Product Development Engineer
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"SpaceClaim: good for pre-processing but not a general-purpose CAD replacement"
What do you like best about Ansys SpaceClaim?

The User Interface is clean and relatively easy to navigate. The feel is modern. And creating Named Selections is very easy. For importing various file types, SpaceClaim is fantastic. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ansys SpaceClaim?

Navigation is not intuitive as you pursue more advanced editing commands. And constraining parametrics is not as straightforward as any competitive modern CAD system. For easy geometry creation SpaceClaim is adequate and only surpasses DesignModeler. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Tomas N.
TN
Chief Engineer, Nuclear
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Spaceclaim - claiming 3D"
What do you like best about Ansys SpaceClaim?

The ease of use and possibility to forget about it for a month and then immediately getting back into the program. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ansys SpaceClaim?

The cost of the software, otherwise no apparent dislikes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Maher E.
ME
Graduate Research Assistant
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Good CAD Tool"
What do you like best about Ansys SpaceClaim?

Ansys SpaceClaim is a useful software for general purpose Computer Aided Design. What is great about it, is that Ansys optimizted it for integration among its other software like Fluent. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ansys SpaceClaim?

Being a non-feature CAD software, Ansys SpaceClaim is not great for editing existing models. This means parametrizing a geomtery for optimization is not simple. This is a disadvantage for all similar tools using this approach. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rajesh K.
RK
Simulation Engineer (Finite Element Analysis)
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"While working on Spaceclaim you can work with speed of your thinking."
What do you like best about Ansys SpaceClaim?

As fast you can think with same speed you can make quick changes. This is not possible with other CAD software. It's not history base , so you can delete reference planes or other entity after purpose gets served. You can record scripts of your model and with litle changes you can create new model within no time.It's very much user-friendly and you can open any type of CAD files in Spaceclaim.Also you can fix /repair surface models with imperfect surfaces. Repair tool is very powerfull you can correct edges, surfaces etc. You can remove all interferences in one click.You can create imprints with special tab given. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ansys SpaceClaim?

In space claim with units system mm max fillet radius you can give is 0.1 mm. So if you have to give fillet radius less than 0.1mm you need to change unit system . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Marco B.
MB
Engineer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"A good SW for reverse engineering"
What do you like best about Ansys SpaceClaim?

Make *.stl files a solid body instead of manually creating the geometry of a competitor's product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ansys SpaceClaim?

Modeling features are not so user friendly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Surekha L.
SL
Assistant Manager
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"User friendly and easy to modify CAD changes for FEA purpose"
What do you like best about Ansys SpaceClaim?

The 3Dimensional changes which can be done on single go and not with much of initial input and pre directions.

Splitting the surfaces with respect to very easy access to dimensional nature.

Easier process to check the geomterical gaps, free edges Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ansys SpaceClaim?

No hsitory of changes done to CAD model, cannot rechange or go back to previous changes with a list of all changes done on CAD, once saved and exited cannot know how the model is modified

Cannot identify the Geometry errors like minimal gap between two surfaces which would give issue for meshing because volume cannot be generated in that neglible gap Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Abdallah A.
AA
Teacher Assistant
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Use SpaceClaim with python code"
What do you like best about Ansys SpaceClaim?

I used the SpaceClaim for 2D drawing. It was very beneficial and easy to use. Also, it is easier than Design Modular when you use python code for parametric study. It is much better and I was comfortable with it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ansys SpaceClaim?

I think we need more tutorials for 3D systems. And I faced a problem with " how can I active the inflation layers with SpaceClaim". So, we need to solve these problems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Shirish C.
SC
Simulation Engineer CFD
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Easy, faster way to to build CFD models"
What do you like best about Ansys SpaceClaim?

Creating solid bodies, subtracting them to create required final geometry model makes the things easy. Also the surface repair options like stitching, filling similar holes reduces repeating work. Also I love the way we can create 2D sketches and make 3D models from them. Very useful for cfd applications where inner volume can be extracted in comparatively easier way. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ansys SpaceClaim?

Some times the stitching option doesn't work to merge to surfaces with small gaps. But over the time I learned some tricks to do it otherwise. Also some of the surface repair options don't work as per my expectations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Gaurav D.
GD
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Extremely easy and quick to learn and use"
What do you like best about Ansys SpaceClaim?

The process to make geometry is so quick. With just few click you can make changes to you model. Simply your models from solid to shell or to beam. It so user friendly. The best part is rectifying the geometries is it just really something unique which it offers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ansys SpaceClaim?

Things like the load time of Space claim is more, like when you are trying to open it. I guess that could be due to lot of things to be loaded due the hepty GUI. If that can be brought down. SCDM would be the all in one undoubtedly the best package. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.