SimScale Reviews & Product Details

1. Web based, so no downloads and no need for a high end graphic laptop.

2. Pretty easy to learn and use. The tutorials are very good

3. 10 simulations and 3000 core hours are free for trial. This is a very good way to do some trial simulations and verify the results.

4. Extremely helpful chat support. The support staff are well trained and highly knoweldgeabe.

5. I think the learnig curve is not so steep for this, based on my experience.

6. Since Simscale is integrated with Onshape, I find it very helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I didn't find anything to dislike from the simulation point. However, I think the fonts for the simulation set up dialogue boxes should be a lit bigger. It was kind of very small and hard to read. I am not sure whether it is possible to change th font size. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

No data loss so far. No crashes. No fatal errors. Do not have to worry about simulation stopping if I send my computer to hibernate, or if I have to restart it.

Great graphical user interface. Be it CAD editor, mesh creation, or results post-processing.

And if I have to do something more complicated, I can just export/download the results to my PC and look at them in ParaView.

CFD calculations being done in OpenFOAM (an open-source, well-known CFD software) is appreciated.

Great responsive support team. It's almost like talking directly to developers of SimScale.

I can use as many resources as I want. The only problem is when I run out of resources - because that can be costly for whoever is paying for my subscription.

I generally import CAD files in STP file format, but SimScale has a very good compatibility with a wide range of file formats.

Screenshots up to around 20M pixels (probably depends on the RAM you have available on your PC?) can be taken, and they are very lightweight - less than 1MB each. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Occasional glitches with screenshot taking. Took a screenshot? Download it (and make sure it's not just an empty rectangle), because if SimScale forgets the "view" for the simulation run, it will forget all the screenshots.

Occasional glitches with CAD editing - if an operation has a problem, I cannot interrupt the operation, and I have to wait for operation to time out - which can take a while. But don't worry about it, CAD editor is being actively developed, developers are aware of the issue, so this problem will be solved. In two months™?

Periodic boundary condition can be done for translational periodicity, but not for rotational one. Very annoying! It could have reduced computational usage by a factor of 2, or 4, or 12, depending on geometry, if periodic boundary condition just worked. [I hope SimScale people are reading the review. Because I am sure that OpenFOAM has this feature, but SimScale for whatever reason does not have it, yet]

Predictions of running time and computing resource usage are unreliable. The software responsible for that probably needs to take more factors into account - even with similar geometries, meshing can take 40min for one case and 80min for another (and prediction is probably 15min? to be fair, my geometries are inordinately complex). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

SimScale has significantly reduced the time it takes to run our Pedestrian Comfort simulations, and it allows me to continue to use my PC while mulitple heavy simulations are running. Also, the SimScale support team is excellent. They are generally very quick to reply, unless it's a German public holiday, and they provide easy to understand feedback. I recently had an issue that exploited a bug in the software. Within 3 days the team had identified and fixed the issue as well as run my original simulation to confirm the fix worked. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I feel the results visualisation could be a bit better, especially for pedestrain comfort. Being able to adjust the colour scale as well as "cut" the model to make taking pictures of different areas would be very useful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ease of use, cloud based and technical support Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

post processing capabilities are low and configurability and features are also low Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like that Simscale, using it weekly, that integrate Finite Element Analysis (FEA) and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) in one cloud-based platform very easily, making it a versatile tool for different engineering scenarios. I appreciate its user-friendly interface, which simplifies complex simulations and allows for efficient project execution. Additionally really great customer support and ease of installation. The integration between CFD and FEA using the same UI is nice. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Simscale operates on a core hours basis, which is primarily an advantage being a cloud base platform, but it also means users don't have unlimited simulation capacity (still very large amount but it can change if you are used to other software), requiring careful planning and prioritization of computational tasks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Online support is really helpful. The support team can usually answer your questions or troubleshoot in a short time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It would be great if SimScale could provide more options for color scale for the resulting rendering. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is great accessibility to the software which is crucial for beginners and students. Additionally, the cloud based services allow me to be more flexible with my work, I can allocate my systems memory towards other tasks while the cloud service performs my analysis work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Despite their being examples and articles providing advice or knowledge, more could be done. This would make the software more appealing to universities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

SimScale is intuative and quick. I have compared it to other software packages and whatusually takes days has been widdled down to less than an hour. My dedicated Customer Support person (Luis Goncalves) has been extremely helpful when I do run into issues. That fact that SimScale is cloud-based allows me to work on other things while a simulation is running whithout having to worry about bogging down my system. The initial use was for flow simulations. However, I find myself using it for structural simulations as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I have run into times where there will be something wrong with the model and/or mesh where SimScale will restart and then sit stalled for hours unless I cancel the simulation. This happens more on the flow side of things. If it is that large of a process, I would rather see SimScale fail then use up my Core Hours. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Friendly user interface, no need for computer infrastructure (no need to implement or integrate anything!), and responsive support team Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

At times the analysis takes long to load Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's scalable, cloud-based multi-physics FEA/CFD; great for fast iteration and teamwork due to its tools for PDM and version control. Doesn´t rely on high performance computers for the analysis. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Needs internet (stable and fast), lacks CAD tools, less intuitive for advanced mechanical simulations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.