--- title: SimScale Reviews meta_title: 'SimScale Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 284 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how SimScale works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.6 review_count: 284 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-08-04' parent_category: name: CAD & PLM url: https://www.g2.com/categories/cad-plm --- # SimScale Reviews **Vendor:** SimScale GmbH **Category:** [Simulation & CAE Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/simulation-cae) **Average Rating:** 4.6/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 284 ## About SimScale SimScale is a leading cloud-native CAE platform that provides access to CFD, FEA, electromagnetics and thermodynamics simulation capabilities 100% via a standard web browser. No hardware, installation or licenses required. Try the free Community plan or request a free trial for the Professional account at https://www.simscale.com/ ## SimScale Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users find SimScale to be **easy to use** , benefiting from intuitive interfaces and excellent support for collaboration. (34 reviews) - Users value the **quick and knowledgeable customer support** from SimScale, making the software experience exceptional. (31 reviews) - Users value the **excellent technical support** of SimScale, enhancing their simulation experience with timely assistance and guidance. (26 reviews) - Users value the **online accessibility** of SimScale, enabling efficient simulations without consuming local computer resources. (19 reviews) - Users benefit from **efficiency improvements** in SimScale, enabling fast iterations and concurrent simulations effortlessly in the cloud. (14 reviews) - Ease of Learning (9 reviews) - Affordable (8 reviews) - Time Saving (8 reviews) - Meshing Techniques (7 reviews) - Integrations (6 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users are frustrated with the **slow simulation process** and lengthy mesh generation, impacting their productivity and workflow. (8 reviews) - Users experience **meshing issues** leading to longer run times and intuitive challenges with file management in SimScale. (7 reviews) - Users find the **learning curve steep** , making setup confusing for beginners despite available tutorials and resources. (5 reviews) - Users report that the **UX improvement** of SimScale is hindered by clunky controls and unintuitive editing features. (4 reviews) - Users find the **complex modeling** process cumbersome, often needing extensive geometry simplifications and lacking clear update communication. (3 reviews) - Users find a **lack of features** in SimScale, impacting editing and post-processing capabilities for complex projects. (3 reviews) - Users find SimScale **not user-friendly** , facing challenges with its learning curve and complex CAD features. (3 reviews) - Time Consumption (3 reviews) - Users find the **complex geometry handling** to be difficult and limited, impacting simulation and post-processing capabilities. (2 reviews) - Limited Drawing Tools (2 reviews) ## SimScale Reviews ### 1. The best support I had from a software company and an outstanding simulation tool. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Maurício G. | CTO, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 09, 2024 **What do you like best about SimScale?** Simscale provides an amazing CFD and FEA tool, with a large knowledge material and it has a great support team, always resposive and caring, with a large experience. **What do you dislike about SimScale?** I believe they could improve some animations in post-process results and some UX tools to enhance the user performance. **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** Simscale provided a robust cloud-based simulation solution, which allowed us to save significantly on hardware. In addition, the support team provided us with rapid leverage of knowledge and implementation of the tool. ### 2. Simscale is interesting simulation tool for solving challenging problems for our customer **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sandesh K. | FEA Engineer , Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 05, 2024 **What do you like best about SimScale?** Most helful and upsides criteria in Simscale will be less computational time to solve complex problems. More advanced and unique tools in tools in analysis settings and boundary conditions **What do you dislike about SimScale?** Least helpful in simscale will be in meshing domain. very less parameters for accurate meshing in terms of different types of meshing such as polyhedral, hexagoal and hexahedral **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** The problems we are solving in static analysis and dynamic analysis. The benefits are in approaching the problem with unique manner in solving approach ### 3. Great for all my Team **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 23, 2024 **What do you like best about SimScale?** The cloud simulation is outstanding and revolutionary, I have people in my team with low end technology, switching to SimScale allowed us to involve everyone in the projects. **What do you dislike about SimScale?** It can be too basic at times, I understand it's not a cad software but a bit more features there would be helpful. **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** Clouding computing has solved so many problems, I can use it overnight with my main machine is off, and I don't need a beefy computer to run simulations. ### 4. Incredibly accessible and free for everyone. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Akash J. | Avionics & Mechanical Design Engineer , Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 10, 2024 **What do you like best about SimScale?** The face that it's free and can be run online **What do you dislike about SimScale?** Simulation setup for incompressible fluid flow is faulty **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use simscale for cfd simulations specifically incompressible fluid flow. The setup for this is a bit tricky anf frankly not helpful. ### 5. Good CFD Software **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Stephen B. | R&D Lab Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 30, 2024 **What do you like best about SimScale?** I like how SimScale is easy to use. In addition, the support is very good. **What do you dislike about SimScale?** I do not have any dislikes about the software at this time. **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** Optimization of product ### 6. Simscale simulating experience **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Facilities Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 21, 2024 **What do you like best about SimScale?** It is userfriendly with models that can speed up the simulations **What do you dislike about SimScale?** I would like to have stronger visualization at the end of simulations for defining lines at different part of simulation for extracting the data! **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** For checking different ideas at concept developing is fast with acceptable accuracy! ### 7. Great online software that is easy to use. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Olivier B. | Engineering Student, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 12, 2024 **What do you like best about SimScale?** Pairs great with onshape, an online CAD software to run my designs in CFD. **What do you dislike about SimScale?** I'm not yet familiar with all of the settings and controls. **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** Comparing the hydrodynamics of two stealth submarines for work. ### 8. Satisfied **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nuv A. | President for Data Science Committee, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 10, 2024 **What do you like best about SimScale?** The website is very interactive and the service is easy to use for a wide variety of engineering applications from multiphase flow simulation to finite element analysis for structural validation. **What do you dislike about SimScale?** If I had a question about a particular thing on my simulation, the live chat would take several days to respond. **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** Simscale is helping solve the problem of time-dependent simulations for reliable and accurate post processing results. They cut the amount of time it takes for simulations to run and produce results that are satisfactory and accurate. ### 9. Simulation on the Go **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Deepak R. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 29, 2024 **What do you like best about SimScale?** The cloud based simulation part that does not require any fancy chips. **What do you dislike about SimScale?** The time taken for meshing and running the simulation **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** Simulation and CFD of heat sinks. ### 10. Speedy cloud-based simulations **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Joanna S. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 08, 2024 **What do you like best about SimScale?** Simscale has a very friendly, easy to navigate interface and incredibly well organized documentation which enables designers in our studio to perform PWC studies. Customer support is top quality, with very knowledgable team responding quickly to any queries. Cloud-based system has helped to speed up our simulations - we can now run multiple variations simultanously and compare options much faster, which is great condsidering ever-changing nature of early stage design concepts. **What do you dislike about SimScale?** It'd be great to have more options for display modes. **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** Environmental analysis and comfrot criteria for design options. ### 11. User-friendly CFD **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Amal B. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 14, 2024 **What do you like best about SimScale?** The best thing about Simscale is that, first, the interface is very user-friendly and easy to navigate for inexperienced CFD users, while also allowing enough control for more detailed analysis. The other very good thing about Simscale is the support that is always available to give helpful insights on problems you may face in a project. Collaborating with them has been a very positive experience. **What do you dislike about SimScale?** An area that I see Simscale working on that I think will be a great addition is the ability to manipulate the data after the run and extract insights. **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** Visually pleasing and easy-to-understand results. ### 12. Was able to save me hours in simulation time. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Joshua A. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 19, 2024 **What do you like best about SimScale?** Have the ability to simulate many different iterations is a real time save and has been one of the best value adds to the business. **What do you dislike about SimScale?** Tricky to setup a simulation with lots of botled connects and contacts. **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** Using SimScale to run load cases from Australian Design Rules to show whether or not a design complies with all safety requirments. ### 13. Senior CAE Engineer **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** sai K. | Azure Devops Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 11, 2024 **What do you like best about SimScale?** Cloud based Simulation, multiple runs at a time. **What do you dislike about SimScale?** Geometry based simulation. No manual changes happens. **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** CFD, Thermal and structural analysis. RFQ analysis happens quickly. ### 14. Fast and easy-to-learn simulation tool **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mattia S. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 27, 2024 **What do you like best about SimScale?** Good variety of simulations. Easy of Use. Easy Boundary Conditions Setup. Speed of simulation. Custumer support. **What do you dislike about SimScale?** Geometry handler not the most easy to use or not really versatile. Download of the results not always available for some simulations as well as some boundary conditions (e.g. periodic) not always available . Post Processing is quite slow and does not allow the extraction of more useful info from the results (area averaged values, mass averaged values, radial or axial profiles of certain quantities). **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** Conjugate Heat Transfer simulation for component design, or results comparison. ### 15. Easy to learn interface. Reliable results. Excellent support. competitive pricing **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Don P. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 23, 2024 **What do you like best about SimScale?** Upsides are an affordable pricing with reliable results for the sporadic or occasional user. **What do you dislike about SimScale?** I think continued improvement in the graphics interface would be good. Some of the mas selection filters are very good once learned. The post processing could be improved. **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** Lower the time to production in development by limiting the number of prototypes needed for testing ### 16. CAE: FEM+CFD+EMS puzzle piece of a full could SaaS company system **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Martin M. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 01, 2024 **What do you like best about SimScale?** Parasolid connection from Onshape(Parasolid kernel) to Simscale(Parasolid kernel) with version controll, works perfect. **What do you dislike about SimScale?** Still some features a laking like comparing two transient non-linear FEM results over all steps. Reports are not there yet (but coming as I was in contact with the UX team), but not that critical - because the browser viewer with post processing capabilities is perfect for most cases. **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** solving linear and non-linear FEM simulations of our onshape parts/assemblies in detail with perfect support more e-motor CFD and EMS in future ### 17. Simscale as a CFD tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Artem T. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 23, 2024 **What do you like best about SimScale?** Simscale is easily accessible for any level of engineering knowledge. The fact that it is an online software allows you to launch it from aby device and run complex analysis in minutes **What do you dislike about SimScale?** Sometimes Sismacle guides may be confusing or misleading. **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** Simscale launches complex CFD analyses, useful for the analysis of aerodynamics. ### 18. Shiva **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 05, 2023 **What do you like best about SimScale?** Ease of simulation, I could simulate a lot of geometries **What do you dislike about SimScale?** Lack of control of user, the software does too much by itself. **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** CFD simulations for RnD projects ### 19. Application is good but service is great. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Biotechnology | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 18, 2024 **What do you like best about SimScale?** The customer support is what makes this application better than everyone else. I also enjoy that the simulations are cloud based; so it doesn't take a toll on my machine. Very easy software to learn if you're familiar with the diffrent types of engineering analysis'. Multiple departments in our compnay have implemented the software with no issues. In about a week I went from learning to using everyday & fully intergrated it into my department. **What do you dislike about SimScale?** The only realy downfall about SimScale at the moment is the lack of direct importing from Solidworks. **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** Computational Fluid Dynamics ### 20. Excellent interface to solve Static and dynamic analysis problems **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sandesh K. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 15, 2024 **What do you like best about SimScale?** Workbench tools are advanced and easier to use for FEA Engineers. **What do you dislike about SimScale?** One contrast is, there is no option for advanced meshing interface and not so many tools for mesh control **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** Currently we are solving linear and non-linear component analysis approach. So we can easier to generate analysis in less time with high level accuracy ### 21. Overal good experience **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 13, 2024 **What do you like best about SimScale?** What i like the best is the user friendly interface, the documentation and the costumer support **What do you dislike about SimScale?** There is no "team package", so you have to pay per person in the company a very expensive plan. This restrict the sharing of knowledge within the company and give the opportunity to more colleague to be involved with CFD simulations. **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mostly pedestrian wind comfort analysis, but also other building aerodynamics simulations ### 22. Power and fast **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Goods | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 10, 2024 **What do you like best about SimScale?** access from web interface and with every dievice connect to the net **What do you dislike about SimScale?** "It is not possible to purchase the computing license for separate modules and for periods shorter than one year. **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** structural analysis, conjugate heat transfer in industrial products ### 23. Very capable with price tag **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Andreas K. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 29, 2024 **What do you like best about SimScale?** Stable, really good support, creating templates for your solution fields **What do you dislike about SimScale?** Sometimes lots of manual mesh refinement required which is automated in other tools as Autodesk CFD **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** Air flow in buildings, air flow through porous media, heat flow ### 24. Cloud servise without installation. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 11, 2024 **What do you like best about SimScale?** It was very useful to use without any PC installation. **What do you dislike about SimScale?** It is defficient to manage the various simulation environments such as two phase flow, flame, any kinds of multiphtsics. **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** CFD, heat transfer system ### 25. Easy to Use and Start Simulating **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rupak B. | Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 09, 2024 **What do you like best about SimScale?** The integration with OnShape is really helpful. The ease with which you can setup Simulations is quite easy. **What do you dislike about SimScale?** There is relatively less documentation about the algorithms in use. But it is possible to run validation cases and confirm the results. **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use SimScale primarily for fluid flow and thermofluidic simulations. The software is easy to use and has in built post processing tools. The cloud based simulations do make it faster and easy to simulate. The pricing for the tool is also very competitive. ### 26. Very easy and user friendly. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 23, 2024 **What do you like best about SimScale?** How easy it is. I was able to run by simulations with easy. **What do you dislike about SimScale?** Nothing. The software is free and perfect for what I need. **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** Desigining the flow within a sump. ### 27. Best UI in a range of CFD simulators **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Manufacturing | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 24, 2024 **What do you like best about SimScale?** User interface is very good with easier learning curve. Detailed documentation available. **What do you dislike about SimScale?** result viewing could be made better, as it takes some time for loading. **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mainly CFD analysis and air flow analysis. ### 28. Easy, simple visuals and analysis **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Srinivas Prasad N. | Teaching Assistant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 23, 2024 **What do you like best about SimScale?** variety of fluids- water, air, gases, no memorization! **What do you dislike about SimScale?** maybe add chemical simulations; ie heat/pressure? **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** thermo-analysis, fan-cooling problems, designing solar boxes, air travel/pollution, water- filtering ### 29. Incredible tool and fantastic tech support **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bruno P. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 21, 2023 **What do you like best about SimScale?** 1. The cloud structure allows extremely fast simulations runs. 2. The tool is extremely user friendly. 3. The tech support is absolutely amazing. **What do you dislike about SimScale?** I haveno points to list. I have not had any negative experience so far. **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using SimScale is to simulate and analyse the gas flow patterns within our devices, allowing us to optimize our design. ### 30. A revolutionary way to FEM simulations **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Younes S. | Professor, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 07, 2023 **What do you like best about SimScale?** SimScale’s cloud-based approach eliminates the need for expensive and resource-intensive hardware, making it cost-effective and convenient for users. **What do you dislike about SimScale?** Since SimScale is cloud-based, it may not be suitable for situations where offline access to simulation software is required. **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** Being cloud-based, SimScale allows users to access their simulations from anywhere with an internet connection. This is especially valuable for remote work and collaboration across different locations. ### 31. Very powerful CFD tool **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Construction | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 23, 2023 **What do you like best about SimScale?** SimScale allowed use to model a very large building and understand the entire airflow throughoutthe building, including simulating the storaging racking systems. While we did use over 22,000 core hours, we were able to gain vaulable knowledge about howthe building would perform in natural and mechaincal ventilation modes. **What do you dislike about SimScale?** Being in the southern hemisphere, and having support based in the northern hemisphere means there is quiute a lag when we have issues in our simulaitons that we cannot understand. Direct support in the southern hemisphere would be helpful. **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** SimScale is used to build airflow simulations to understand air diffusion patterns for the application of HVAC&R in the construction industry. ### 32. Intuitive and Easy to use! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Manufacturing | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 20, 2024 **What do you like best about SimScale?** I like the project setup, whith the ability to have multiple geometries and simulations. The speed of meshing and simulation runs utilizing cloud computing is a huge plus. Also the documentation, support and large user base is great. **What do you dislike about SimScale?** Maybe some of the CAD functionality could be improved. Would like to be able to roll back the feature tree or suppress features. **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** Understanding the affect the geometry shape has on our fan products. ### 33. The best online simulator **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 05, 2023 **What do you like best about SimScale?** The best online simulator, with a very high degree of confidence. Easy and intuitive to use, and plenty of simulations possible to use. By importing directly from Inventor, it is possible to easily integrate and implement the geometry under study. I often use it for personal use and the simulation corresponds to reality. In terms of assistance and support, the team is very efficient and fast. **What do you dislike about SimScale?** The only disadvantage is not being able to simulate offline. **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** static and thermal problems ### 34. Powerful and decent learning curve **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lianne L. | Integrated Design Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 22, 2023 **What do you like best about SimScale?** Ricardo! And access tech support in general. **What do you dislike about SimScale?** The lack of post processing report options. Such as a summary of variables and inputs and results. **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** Thermal Bridging in complex prefab panels ### 35. Value Added Analysis Package **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 07, 2023 **What do you like best about SimScale?** Uncomplicated tools to get you started on your analysis. Feature rich to dig deeper into your analysis and extract meaningful data. **What do you dislike about SimScale?** The amount of automation creates ease of use but also removes some of the variable controls necessary for certain parameter configurations. **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** Structural concerns resulting form loads environments. Rigidity/deflection limits of our products. Simscale gives us the ability to focus in on specific areas and modify certain aspects to improve performance, weight, and durability. ### 36. SimScale is great! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jared R. | Sr. Mechanical Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 19, 2023 **What do you like best about SimScale?** The interface and setup process is so much better than Ansys Fluent. I and set up and run multiple CGD simulations in less time than just setup would take in other packages. I love the post processing and the way I can add particle tracks to a steady state simulation. The customer support is so fast and easy as well. **What do you dislike about SimScale?** I don't like the mouse mapping in the 3d envirment and wish there was support for 3dconnexion space mouse. **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** SimScale give me the ability to quickly visualize changes I make to products that are currently in development. ### 37. Perfect platform that offers CAE and CFD. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nidish N. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 29, 2024 **What do you like best about SimScale?** SImscale is easy to use, offers plenty of online documentation and examples to start working. **What do you dislike about SimScale?** There are only 10 free sims available for basic user. **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helps analyse and perfrom strucutural analysis, store all the results online and not worry about keeping track of the simulation. ### 38. Great Fluid MECHANICS modeling Software **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 29, 2024 **What do you like best about SimScale?** I like the way it can demonstrate with colors, the flows and happenings of simple fluid problems. **What do you dislike about SimScale?** Sometimes determining what caused a simulation error can be difficult **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** Fluid mechanics problem, necessary for school and my classes ### 39. CAE Analyst **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** saikumar B. | Senior Analyst, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 18, 2024 **What do you like best about SimScale?** Multiple Runs, Quick results and bond creation **What do you dislike about SimScale?** Mesh Quality, The animation quality in the output **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** CFD and Thermal ### 40. Ease of use and quick results **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 27, 2024 **What do you like best about SimScale?** Access to the simscale cluster and ability to run simulations without installing any software **What do you dislike about SimScale?** Physics models available are limited, specially on multiphase **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** Structural analysis ### 41. Easy and Powerful **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alberto F. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 24, 2023 **What do you like best about SimScale?** The user-friendly interface, the facility to generate mesh and run simulations **What do you dislike about SimScale?** The CAD drawing, and import drawings. The drawing system are very simple and you can not make little changes on the geometry. **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** The fast CFD simulations. ### 42. SimScale_Pedestrian Wind Comfort Simulation **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Architecture & Planning | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 15, 2023 **What do you like best about SimScale?** It is the only tool we've found that considers topology for running wind simulations and offers multiple types of analysis to evaluate wind conditions. Not to mention their amazing technical support team that is both available and knowledgeable to assist you throughout the process. **What do you dislike about SimScale?** It's an advanced tool that requires a little preparation and testing beforehand until you become fluent in using it. **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** SImulating wind conditions in specific locations is an important factor in design consideration for the type of project and their siting. ### 43. The best CFD sofware I tried **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** stefano r. | Technical Research Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 18, 2023 **What do you like best about SimScale?** Cloud computing, very powerfull for CFD analysis **What do you dislike about SimScale?** Some plugins does not work well and it should include more recent design methods as generative design **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** CFD analysis of complex structures and teach students how to use it ### 44. Simscale working in Cloud environment **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Renewables & Environment | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 07, 2023 **What do you like best about SimScale?** 1. Cloud Environment 2.Support for every project 3.All Simulation capabilities. **What do you dislike about SimScale?** 1. Needs to simplify Geometry as much as possble. 2. No CAD Clean up options. 3. Each time needs to depends on supports teams. **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** Product/Project Design of early design Checks. ### 45. Refreshing experience with SimScale **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 24, 2023 **What do you like best about SimScale?** Its detailed but also not bulky. very easy to use setup and use. it can also take multiple part with standard properties. import CAD models form other softwares for analysis is easy to do **What do you dislike about SimScale?** you need internet connection always to implement your models **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** simscale is solving the expensive and laborious simulation and CAE problem especially for students in low income countries ### 46. Easy to use, very economical while still being a capable/efficient tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 19, 2023 **What do you like best about SimScale?** Great support from Simscale team in terms of sim-support, account management, personalized tutorials, etc. **What do you dislike about SimScale?** Can have a few kinks here and there and sometimes hard to learn on your own without requesting support/tutorial help. **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** Simscale resolves the issue of having available and cost-effective internal resources. This tool can be used at any time and run concurrently without tying up valuable local computer resources. ### 47. User friendly simulation platform **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Renewables & Environment | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 18, 2023 **What do you like best about SimScale?** Great support, can be used for a wide range of simulations, easily accessible from different computers. **What do you dislike about SimScale?** Some bugs and occational updates can result in features and simulations that were previously working no longer work. **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** Nothing needs to be installed on a specific computer, so a simple laptop can be used for heavy simulations. Easy to use even for unexperienced engineers. ### 48. Easiest to use **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 13, 2023 **What do you like best about SimScale?** Very intuitive to use, even the simplest newbie can use it. **What do you dislike about SimScale?** Pre-processing flexibility, especially meshing. Need more help in that **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** CFD problems in my domain ### 49. Pumps **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 12, 2024 **What do you like best about SimScale?** I really like the helpful on demand technical support. and ease of setup of parameters. **What do you dislike about SimScale?** I wish it we didnt have to build a fluid model before uploading to a sim. Other CFD software you can just upload 3D models. **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** CFD for pumps to save on prototyping. ### 50. Process Mechanical Engineer **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Daniel T. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 06, 2023 **What do you like best about SimScale?** Ease of Use, Customer Support, Ease of Implementation **What do you dislike about SimScale?** Some features are limited/under developing, but have great potential to develop **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** Genereal hydraulic design for seawge/water treatment works ## SimScale Discussions - [What is SimScale used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-simscale-used-for) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [View SimScale pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/simscale/reviews?page=4§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-08-06+19%3A04%3A17+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=a56c866e-45b8-4f7b-9af3-a133ff7e2b6b&secure%5Btoken%5D=e0944f32efb29a1f0bda0e1b5875f6bdc33c3be579b47d5e8cf6730231ba9523&format=llm_user) ## SimScale Integrations - [CATIA](https://www.g2.com/products/catia/reviews) - [Onshape](https://www.g2.com/products/onshape/reviews) - [Rhinoceros](https://www.g2.com/products/rhinoceros/reviews) - [SOLIDWORKS](https://www.g2.com/products/solidworks/reviews) ## SimScale Features **Design** - 3D/solid modeling Tools - Drawing Tools - Editing Tools - Rendering tools - Stochastic Modeling - Presentation Tools **Tools** - Fluid analysis - Finite element analysis - Multibody dynamics - Design Analysis **Work** - Discrete event modeling - Continuous event modeling - Mechanical event simulation - Manufacturing process simulation - Integrate - Turbulence Modeling - Motion Modeling - Dynamic Modeling - Mathematical Modeling - Agent-Based Modeling - Monte Carlo Simulation **Environment** - Hardware support - Task - Manage Multiple Profiles - Command Clarity **Additional Functionality** - Activity Dashboard - Configurable Workflow - API - Data Verification - Data Visualization - Generative AI - 3D Imaging - Projections - Data Import/Export - Design Management - Drag & Drop - Real-Time Monitoring - Version Control - Visual Analytics - Third-Party Integrations - Access Controls/Permissions - Workflow Management - Direct Manipulation - Scenario Planning - Product Data Management - Predictive Analytics - Change Management - Process Control - Customization - Content Library - Document Management - Real-Time Data - Reporting & Statistics - Rules-Based Workflow - File Management - Compliance Management - Policy Management - Graphical Data Presentation - Customizable Reports - Graphical Workflow Editor - Reporting/Analytics - Industry Specific Database - Project Workflow - AI Copilot - Performance Management ## Top SimScale Alternatives - [SOLIDWORKS](https://www.g2.com/products/solidworks/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (630 reviews) - [Ansys Fluent](https://www.g2.com/products/ansys-fluent/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (117 reviews) - [COMSOL Multiphysics®](https://www.g2.com/products/comsol-multiphysics/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (36 reviews)