# Autodesk CFD Reviews **Vendor:** Autodesk **Category:** [Simulation & CAE Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/simulation-cae) **Average Rating:** 4.3/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 31 ## About Autodesk CFD Autodesk® CFD software provides computational fluid dynamics and thermal simulation tools to help you predict product performance, optimize designs, and validate product behavior before manufacturing. ## Autodesk CFD Reviews ### 1. Simple. Fast. Satisfactory. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rohin A. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 30, 2024 **What do you like best about Autodesk CFD?** Like all Autodesk products, it has a beginner-friendly UI and a gentle learning curve. The automatic meshing option makes it easier to focus on post-processing and results for simple fluid flow scenarios. Autodesk customer support delivers and the user community is fairly wide. **What do you dislike about Autodesk CFD?** With limited solvers and meshing capabilities compared to industry standard software like ANSYS Fluent and Star-CCM+, it leaves much to be desired in complex flow modeling. That makes Autodesk CFD my 5th choice when dealing with CFD simulations in the automotive, biomedical, or aviation sectors. **What problems is Autodesk CFD solving and how is that benefiting you?** Autodesk CFD helped generate preliminary flow results for an HVAC system without complex meshing and setup tasks, thereby cutting down lead times for design iterations when model fidelity was not the main focus. ### 2. Autodesk CFD - An innovation **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sandeep D. | Assistant Manager, Oil & Energy, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 17, 2024 **What do you like best about Autodesk CFD?** The ability to use raw native files is the first feature of Autodesk CFD that I find appealing. It doesn't need to be converted to a STEP file. It works well with Autodesk Inventor as well. **What do you dislike about Autodesk CFD?** There is a tool that is gaining popularity, however it lacks the ability to handle sophisticated physics that other competitors do. Integration with other commonly used software appears to be a problem. **What problems is Autodesk CFD solving and how is that benefiting you?** Autodesk CFD offers powerful and accurate simulations for fluid flow, heat transport, and thermal analysis. It employs modern computational algorithms and turbulence models to precisely forecast and evaluate complicated flow processes. ### 3. Autodesk CFD - A novel one **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bobin S. | Assistant Professor, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 16, 2024 **What do you like best about Autodesk CFD?** Feature rich, ease of understanding and adaptability **What do you dislike about Autodesk CFD?** Nothing much, GUI can be improved a it more **What problems is Autodesk CFD solving and how is that benefiting you?** Being in the academia, used Autodesk CFD for a wide range of problems including valve design and optimization, electronic cooling etc. Comapred to other pricey alternatives Autodesk CFD arrived at accurate solutions in a quick manner ### 4. Wonderful Product for Simulation Works **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dr. Kurmendra, P. | Associate Editor, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 29, 2024 **What do you like best about Autodesk CFD?** Fastness and accuracy are the two parameters which attracts me **What do you dislike about Autodesk CFD?** I do not find any such issue to dislike about **What problems is Autodesk CFD solving and how is that benefiting you?** I designed a mechanical structure and performed a simulation. it gave me very good results ### 5. No Conversion to STEP file **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Hari V. | Lead Design Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 13, 2024 **What do you like best about Autodesk CFD?** The first thing which I like about Autodesk CFD is that it can use raw native files. I do not have to convert it to STEP file. It also integrates well with Autodesk Inventor. **What do you dislike about Autodesk CFD?** Report generation could have been better. Lacks in graph generation. **What problems is Autodesk CFD solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps me in studying temperature distribution and analysing the flow pattern in our custom designed furnace. ### 6. A lot to improve **Rating:** 2.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Geetesh W. | Deputy Manager (M3-b) - CFD, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 20, 2023 **What do you like best about Autodesk CFD?** It is a tool which can handle basic level of simulations. Although development is happening but a lot needs to be improved. Easy to use and not much complications to implement boundary conditions. **What do you dislike about Autodesk CFD?** There is a tool which is trying to gain popularity but lacks handling of advanced physics that other competitors can handle. Integration with other generally used softwares seems to be a hindrance **What problems is Autodesk CFD solving and how is that benefiting you?** Gaining insights into fluid problems ### 7. Very user friendly CFD simulation software **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 12, 2024 **What do you like best about Autodesk CFD?** This software package is very easy to use and at the same time it has a wide range of computational methods to solve real world CFD problems such as heat transfer and navier stokes equations. Also it is easier to learn when compared to other packages **What do you dislike about Autodesk CFD?** GUI could be improved further and specialised training courses could be added so that it could be convienent for a new user to implement the solution methods **What problems is Autodesk CFD solving and how is that benefiting you?** Real world problems such as Steady state and transient heat transfer, electromagnetic flow, navier stokes equations, generalised convection diffusion equations and Melting/Solidification ### 8. Realist experience **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dr. Ashok K. | Head of Department, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 27, 2024 **What do you like best about Autodesk CFD?** It's user-friendly, has minimal implementation requirements, appreciable customer support, sufficient features, and is possible in multiple integrations and can be used frequently. Results are easy to analyze. **What do you dislike about Autodesk CFD?** Get slower in case of a low network connection. **What problems is Autodesk CFD solving and how is that benefiting you?** Real imagination of the expected results while solving the related equations under various parameters. ### 9. Ease of access **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nitish S. | Design Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 29, 2024 **What do you like best about Autodesk CFD?** Usually take very less time comparison to other software. **What do you dislike about Autodesk CFD?** There is nothing about autodesk cfd. I do suggest this to everyone **What problems is Autodesk CFD solving and how is that benefiting you?** I usually do smoke simulation in basements. I saves my lot of time ### 10. Amazing Product with Extraordinary Featured **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ragavendran L. | Software Development Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 12, 2024 **What do you like best about Autodesk CFD?** The UI/UX of the Autodesk CDF is very intuitive and gives its users an amazing experience. **What do you dislike about Autodesk CFD?** The size of Installation file is very big. **What problems is Autodesk CFD solving and how is that benefiting you?** It solved most of the problem related to CFD that I was facing. ### 11. Autodesk CFD is specifically designed to simulate and analyze fluid flow, heat transfer **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** VIGRAHRAJ SINGH C. | Graduate Engineering Trainee, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 12, 2023 **What do you like best about Autodesk CFD?** The software provides tools for visualizing simulation results, including contour plots, streamlines, animations, and reports. This allows for better understanding and communication of simulation outcomes. **What do you dislike about Autodesk CFD?** Computational fluid dynamics simulations, in general, can be complex, and Autodesk CFD is no exception. It requires a solid understanding of fluid dynamics principles and simulation techniques. Users who are new to CFD or have limited experience may find the software challenging to learn and utilize effectively **What problems is Autodesk CFD solving and how is that benefiting you?** Autodesk CFD provides robust and accurate simulation capabilities for fluid flow, heat transfer, and thermal analysis. It uses advanced numerical methods and turbulence models to accurately predict and analyze complex flow phenomena ### 12. Its really a nice software, results are pretty accurate **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Building Materials | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 13, 2024 **What do you like best about Autodesk CFD?** Customer support, ease of implementation, nice features and user friendly **What do you dislike about Autodesk CFD?** Everything is good, acually it is one of the best.. **What problems is Autodesk CFD solving and how is that benefiting you?** Simulation results are pretty close to real results, helps in design improvement ### 13. Very good CFD interface **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 11, 2024 **What do you like best about Autodesk CFD?** Very simple interface for solving various fluid flow and heat transfer problems with special emphasis on the equations and algorithms used such as SIMPLE, SIMPLEC and SIMPLER **What do you dislike about Autodesk CFD?** More complex FEM problems should be solvable as in ANSYS software. Needs to incorporate for more solvers **What problems is Autodesk CFD solving and how is that benefiting you?** Fluid flow, heat transfer, melting and solidification, Nodal analysis ### 14. Clean UI, Easy to use **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 30, 2024 **What do you like best about Autodesk CFD?** The UI is very simplified and very user friendly and easy to use **What do you dislike about Autodesk CFD?** Cross platform compatibility seems an issue **What problems is Autodesk CFD solving and how is that benefiting you?** IP tests ### 15. Autodesk CFD - simple interface and integrates with other software well **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tom E. | Student, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 31, 2021 **What do you like best about Autodesk CFD?** For me the biggest benefit of Autodesk CFD is the simple interface - compared to similar software it is relatively quick and intuitive to set up a simulation and get results. It is also super useful to be able to integrate with other autodesk software and pass models around between teams. Overall would recommend for a wide range of simple CFD work. **What do you dislike about Autodesk CFD?** Some higher level functions such as integrated calculations are not present, though not a big deal as can interface with other programs well. **What problems is Autodesk CFD solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use Autodesk CFD to simulate air flows through simple plenum geometries and are working towards including turbomachinery and fans into our simulations for optimisation work. The greatest benefit is the ability to develop and update model geometries quickly, and get results in a short time frame. ### 16. Helpful CFD software **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Naman G. | Jr. Project Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 26, 2021 **What do you like best about Autodesk CFD?** It helps to reduce time. We can give several conditions within a certain limit Finite element meshing is good **What do you dislike about Autodesk CFD?** Sometimes It doesn't give accurate results The system also hangs during processing Requires a lot of CPU memory **What problems is Autodesk CFD solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am currently doing an analysis of thermochemical reactors. ### 17. Autodesk CFD is amazing for engineers **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Muhammad Abdullah S. | Mechanical engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 19, 2021 **What do you like best about Autodesk CFD?** Its fluid dynamic simulation is very accurate when compared to other softwares available. User interface is very easy. Totally recommend it. **What do you dislike about Autodesk CFD?** Only con is it can take a while sometimes for complex problems. **Recommendations to others considering Autodesk CFD:** It's very easy to use, compact and very accurate software. I totally recommend it. Mechanical design engineers can totally depend upon it. **What problems is Autodesk CFD solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mostly problems like heat flow through Circulating fluidised bed boilers and heat exchangers ### 18. Autodesk CFD has an user-friendly interface that is really easy to use. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Research | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 26, 2021 **What do you like best about Autodesk CFD?** The meshing tool is easy to use and intuitive. The modeling software is quite uncluttered and drawing up models took less than a hour usually. **What do you dislike about Autodesk CFD?** The processing of the CFD simulation takes very long. **What problems is Autodesk CFD solving and how is that benefiting you?** Problems of heat transfer over a flat plate due to jet impingement. The benefits would be: modelling and meshing were user-friendly and took very little time getting used to. ### 19. Pretty accurate fluid dynamics simulation but a little bit difficult **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bara'a S. | RF Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 01, 2020 **What do you like best about Autodesk CFD?** Pretty accurate fluid dynamics simulation, thermal simulations are pretty accurate as well, it covers a lot of scenarios and different types of sources. **What do you dislike about Autodesk CFD?** It lacks the ability to edit the shapes, you will need a cad software alongside to try and edit the shapes you have then import them back in cfd. **Recommendations to others considering Autodesk CFD:** You will need to have a cad software alongside cfd, it's pricey so make sure you need all the features it provides before buying it as other softwares are cheaper but do not have the same features as Autodesk cfd. **What problems is Autodesk CFD solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mostly Thermal simulations to find the temperature of aome systems. ### 20. Great tool **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jyothi Kumar K. | Manager - Design, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 26, 2021 **What do you like best about Autodesk CFD?** User friendly software with pull down menu **What do you dislike about Autodesk CFD?** Nothing as such as dislikes, everything in right place **Recommendations to others considering Autodesk CFD:** It's very user friendly as hilighted before and it's very easy to learn and implement concurrently for new joiners **What problems is Autodesk CFD solving and how is that benefiting you?** Optimization of a Centrifugal Compressor ### 21. Good for beginners **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Siddhesh K. | Project Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 27, 2021 **What do you like best about Autodesk CFD?** It is very user friendly. User Interface is quite interactive **What do you dislike about Autodesk CFD?** It is not recommended for complex problems. Experimental correlation is not that much great **What problems is Autodesk CFD solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is good for external Aerodynamics applications. even we use it for internal flows ### 22. Technical engineer at pump principal **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rizky P. | Technical Sales Support Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 20, 2021 **What do you like best about Autodesk CFD?** Simulation for flow, represent of distribution foiw and thermal **What do you dislike about Autodesk CFD?** Mesh running too slow and requirement for medium laptop **What problems is Autodesk CFD solving and how is that benefiting you?** Seeing distribution thermal and flow ### 23. Autodesk CFD lack features **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Machinery | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 07, 2020 **What do you like best about Autodesk CFD?** Autodesk CFD is easy to use and does not require a lot of nastran knowledge to be used. **What do you dislike about Autodesk CFD?** It lacks a lot of features, such as the ability to change the type of mesh (for example, from triangles to quad). **What problems is Autodesk CFD solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps us preview how the pressures and temperatures will be on the Die Head designs we make. ### 24. It's gives approximate results in less time. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 29, 2021 **What do you like best about Autodesk CFD?** I like because it gives result in less time **What do you dislike about Autodesk CFD?** It's transient behaviour is very fluctuating as it depends upon just immediate result. **What problems is Autodesk CFD solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am solving Drag Coefficient problems. ### 25. Engineering and design of process equipments **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 26, 2021 **What do you like best about Autodesk CFD?** Easy to use for creating model and run simulation Simple interface **What do you dislike about Autodesk CFD?** Nothing, for the tasks I have performed it was very helpful **What problems is Autodesk CFD solving and how is that benefiting you?** Flow in leaching tank ### 26. CFD student **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Machinery | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 23, 2021 **What do you like best about Autodesk CFD?** Easy to use, good support, easy GUI, as good as other professional CFD packages **What do you dislike about Autodesk CFD?** Post processing design and none additional thing **What problems is Autodesk CFD solving and how is that benefiting you?** External aerodynamics, Internal flows, turbulence, ...... ### 27. Thermal and fluids simulation **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Siddhant D. | Graduate Assistant, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 16, 2020 **What do you like best about Autodesk CFD?** This software has very high processing capabilities. It's meshing speed is higher than other CFD software. **What do you dislike about Autodesk CFD?** The fluidic simulations take a lot of time because of the increased number of nodes involved with complicated geometry such as tumblers, boilers etc. **Recommendations to others considering Autodesk CFD:** Run individual simulations separately and then combine meshes to run an overall simulation **What problems is Autodesk CFD solving and how is that benefiting you?** Calculating heat flow in a boiler and increasing the mechanical and thermal efficiency of a power plant. ### 28. Bim specialist Mechanical designer **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Architecture & Planning | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 21, 2019 **What do you like best about Autodesk CFD?** I like the interface. It was intuitive. **What do you dislike about Autodesk CFD?** I hated the inability to make calculations in a complex object. **What problems is Autodesk CFD solving and how is that benefiting you?** Air flow distribution. And proper external pressure to my ducts. ### 29. Computation Fluid Dynamics **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Viken K. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 30, 2018 **What do you like best about Autodesk CFD?** This software is incredibly powerful. It gave me the opportunity to expand our business practices and instill greater confidence in our proposed solutions.I've attached a simulation of a very specific enclosure in which airflow was constricted at the intake, and created internal pressure such that maintenance access was not possible (opening the doors). This simulation helps improve the design of the final solution to grant access to the interior of the enclosure by reducing the airflow path and reducing the overall static/dynamic pressure of the enclosure. **What do you dislike about Autodesk CFD?** The software comes with a very steep learning curve. That being said, it is designed to be used by highly competent individuals (HQPs - Highly Qualified Personnel) to make strong engineering decisions. **Recommendations to others considering Autodesk CFD:** The tool is incredibily powerful. There's three tiers of the software, in terms of pricing and I find that the most basic suits that of 90% of the industry, whereas the Intermediate and Advanced tools are part of supersonic CFD evaluation... **What problems is Autodesk CFD solving and how is that benefiting you?** Having worked in HVAC, noise and vibration control, it gave me the opportunity to review the acoustics, aerodynamics of various systems we designed and implemented. ### 30. Easy to use CFD for quick analysis. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 11, 2019 **What do you like best about Autodesk CFD?** I like that it's an easy to use analysis for when you need something done quickly. **What do you dislike about Autodesk CFD?** It's not as sophisticated as some other software programs. **Recommendations to others considering Autodesk CFD:** It's an easy to use analysis tool that gives you what you need when in the design process. **What problems is Autodesk CFD solving and how is that benefiting you?** Being able to quickly analyze aspects of a product while you are designing. ### 31. Customer service for Autodesk **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Real Estate | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 31, 2018 **What do you like best about Autodesk CFD?** Autodesk is easy to use because if we run into any issues we can pick up the phone to call support. **What do you dislike about Autodesk CFD?** Dislike the extra information or steps the give you.then we have to spend time deleting the information. **What problems is Autodesk CFD solving and how is that benefiting you?** Able to generate product quickly. ## Autodesk CFD Discussions - [What are the softwares in CFD?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-are-the-softwares-in-cfd) - [Which Autodesk product has CFD?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/which-autodesk-product-has-cfd) - [Is Autodesk CFD any good?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/is-autodesk-cfd-any-good) - [What can Autodesk CFD do?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-can-autodesk-cfd-do) - [View Autodesk CFD pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/autodesk-cfd/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-06-11+20%3A47%3A11+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=684e8d38-eb69-4156-ba33-027ffaae64a9&secure%5Btoken%5D=f57fdf30001bfa77e834b6a413a82c504f6b3a39fb8371d427e732801c7c5fa3&format=llm_user) ## Autodesk CFD 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 Autodesk CFD Alternatives - [SimScale](https://www.g2.com/products/simscale/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (274 reviews) - [Ansys Fluent](https://www.g2.com/products/ansys-fluent/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (117 reviews) - [SolidWorks Flow Simulation](https://www.g2.com/products/solidworks-solidworks-flow-simulation/reviews) - 4.1/5.0 (33 reviews)