--- title: SimScale Reviews meta_title: 'SimScale Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 283 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: 283 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-07-07' 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:** 283 ## 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 value the **ease of use** of SimScale, benefiting from intuitive interfaces and exceptional support. (34 reviews) - Users praise the **quick and knowledgeable customer support** from SimScale, enhancing their overall software experience. (31 reviews) - Users value the **excellent technical support** of SimScale, which aids in efficient and effective simulation processes. (26 reviews) - Users value the **online accessibility** of SimScale, allowing fast cloud-based simulations without using local resources. (19 reviews) - Users enjoy the **efficiency improvement** of SimScale, facilitating faster iterations and simultaneous teamwork on simulations. (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 often find the **slow simulation speed** frustrating, as it complicates the modeling and post-processing experience. (8 reviews) - Users find **meshing issues** in SimScale lead to longer run times and complicate the simulation process. (7 reviews) - Users find the **learning curve challenging** , citing complexity and overwhelming setup processes, especially for beginners. (5 reviews) - Users find the **UX improvements in SimScale challenging** , particularly regarding controls, geometry UI, and meshing features. (4 reviews) - Users find the **complex modeling** aspect of SimScale challenging, often requiring significant time and simplification for effective use. (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. Student on a Mac **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 07, 2023 **What do you like best about SimScale?** Running on Mac, simple, nice visualizations. **What do you dislike about SimScale?** Nothing at all, maybe a lack? of credibility in the industry and academia. At least in my country. **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** Light-weight simulation software running in a cloud. ### 2. Good for Simple Projects **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shraddha S. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 18, 2023 **What do you like best about SimScale?** User friendly. Support is fast and great. **What do you dislike about SimScale?** Some complicated things are difficult to implement. For example vacuum modeling. **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** Thermal analysis of our Equipment. It gives pretty accurate results compared to analytical analysis. ### 3. Very good costumer service **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 16, 2023 **What do you like best about SimScale?** The costumer service that answers very quickly and very prestative; user friendly interface; tutorials and documentation **What do you dislike about SimScale?** The estimation of credits per simulation has improved, but it is still not very accurate. **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** CFD simulations ### 4. SimScale - beyond expectations! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Doron S. | Owner, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 20, 2023 **What do you like best about SimScale?** It has a solid background in both - physics and engineering wise! It keeps on evolving, with very cooperative development and support teams. Easy to use GUI in pre and post. **What do you dislike about SimScale?** The truth - can't find any! Another truth - why should I be worried about it? ..... **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** Analyzing the flow (air, liquid etc.) about any type of structure. ### 5. User of SimScale for 7+ for various industrial problems **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Miguel B. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 21, 2023 **What do you like best about SimScale?** Intuitive and easy to use with an acceptable learning curve, affordable CFD tool that gives trustable results. **What do you dislike about SimScale?** Needs more development on the physical models available, but they are currently working on it. The documentation could expand more on the theory side of things. **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** I deal with fluid mechanics and mixing problems and use SimScale to understand these processes. It helps me be more productive in my duties because I can simulate multiple scenarios simultaneously, allowing me to compare results and optimize my design. ### 6. Outstanding tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mario G. | Head of Process and Research Dpt., Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 15, 2022 **What do you like best about SimScale?** The reason behind our selection of SimScale as our CFD simulation tool was the potential minimum time to start simulating and showing results since we would be able to use existing examples and case studies as the base for ours. Our expectations have been met and exceeded so far, in both the system functionality and the customer service. We have been able to show results in some phenomena that are really complex to show with formulas, in much less time than expected. **What do you dislike about SimScale?** As in all new tools and systems, the first simulations can be hard to understand, especially when defining the inlet and outlet boundary conditions. I recommend to invest in the first training hours. **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** SimScale has helped us to show a model for some aerodynamical phenomena happening in our quality control equipments for the metallurgical industry. It has also been useful to select the right technology for some blowers and compressors that interact with our process ### 7. Clean, straightforward web-based simulation software **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Aviation & Aerospace | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 21, 2022 **What do you like best about SimScale?** Simscale has a clean user-interface that is not daunting to navigate. Additionally, it is nice that it works seamlessly with Onshape. It also runs relatively quickly, and has some excellent customer support. **What do you dislike about SimScale?** Simscale lacks some of the more complex coupled structural analysis required in my work. Additionally, it was a little difficult for me at first to learn how to generate a good mesh as it is done slightly differently than I am used to. **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** They are helping us overcome the lack of coupled structural analysis, which is critical for our projects. Their customer service has been outstanding in communicating and supporting us. ### 8. Happy since 2019, and it has only gotten better! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jesse K. | Director, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 18, 2022 **What do you like best about SimScale?** >The responsive and thoroughly helpful support team. >The in-depth onboarding process that was available when I started. >The speed of processing simulations. >Being able to run a simulation and do other things with your computer, or run multiple simulations simultaneously. >The ability to run large simulations Although SimScale is a technical and relatively specialized product, SimScale is the best-supported and easiest to use software I use in my day-to-day business practices. **What do you dislike about SimScale?** >While SimScale is competitively priced in the cloud simulation world and adds good value, it can be difficult to jump into this expense. Without a conversation with Simscale staff, the pricing of the various tiers is not available. **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** >Better visualization of design performance / Providing helpful visuals for communicating design performance. Especially structural analysis for myself. >Confirmation of hand calculations. ### 9. Technical support is outstanding. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Cisco S. | Senior Mechanical Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 22, 2022 **What do you like best about SimScale?** For my needs simscale has been extremely helpful. I got technical help to begin my first simulations, and I got fast technical support for additional issues that came up. They keep adding more capabilities too and listen to customer needs. **What do you dislike about SimScale?** Occasionally the web based post-processing page loads the models a bit slow, but for the most part, it works well. **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** We needed to model the flow in a rapidly developing heat exchanger, and Solidworks flow had a large entry point and the technical support is good, but simscale has far exceeded that. ### 10. Excellent user-friendly simulation software for novices and advanced users. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Medical Devices | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 11, 2022 **What do you like best about SimScale?** Incredible real-time support and straightforward simulation setup. A new user can be up and running in a short amount of time even without formal training. The meshing algorithms are very good and appear to accurately capture the physics without too much manual intervention. I've been formally trained with primarily COMSOL Multiphysics, but I was able to get started on SimScale in a fraction of the time. SimScale makes it much easier to set up and run complex analyses such as physical contact with much less pain than COMSOL. I really enjoy the overall workflow and excellent integration with our CAD package, OnShape. Finally, new features are constantly added without requiring a new license or update as software updates are pushed directly to the cloud-based software. If I have any questions regarding the software or simulation help, tech support is nearly real-time. Shoutout to Ricardo for his patience and incredible support! **What do you dislike about SimScale?** The boundary conditions and analysis types are somewhat convoluted; certain boundary conditions are only available in certain analysis types for no clear reason. For example, the radiation boundary condition is not available in Heat Transfer, but it is in convective or conjugate heat transfer. To this day, I'm still not quite sure what the difference between Conjugate Heat Transfer and Conjugate Heat Transfer v2.0. If I spend all the time setting up the boundary conditions for one analysis type and want to switch, I have to redo all the boundary conditions which is somewhat frustrating. Due to the cloud nature of the software, analyses for simple problems can take significantly longer than other software. Meshing in particular takes a good amount of time to complete, especially if I have to iterate through the mesh. This was a very fast process in COMSOL as the mesh was locally computed. 2D analyses are also sorely missed for simple problems. **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** Electronics cooling, static and transient mechanical problems, heat transfer. ### 11. Simscale Air Flow Patterns **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Robert B. | HVAC Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 28, 2022 **What do you like best about SimScale?** Simscale has helped me significantly by allowing me to process more accurate data when evaluating a building's indoor air quality. The product has taken my business to the next level of technical competence and allows me to provide better solutions for my clients. It was a game changer for my business. **What do you dislike about SimScale?** Their is nothing I dislike about Simscale **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** Simscale models airflow patterns within a building space which is used during the design stage or evaluation stage of my products. It enables me to identify problems quickly and resolve them easily by changes in my design. ### 12. We use Simscale to work in a team and education **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Robert M. | Professor for ressource efficient development and design, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 28, 2022 **What do you like best about SimScale?** Cloud solution, Start immediately, no installation, no licensing **What do you dislike about SimScale?** nothing to mention here. There is some room for improvement in the field of meshing. **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** Simulation fluid, solid, thermal Understand the virtual prototype. Enables us to do fast optimization loops. ### 13. Low entry-level CFD package with concise docs and amazing support. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Simon R. | PGRA in Chemistry, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 06, 2021 **What do you like best about SimScale?** SimScale is straight-forward to use even for someone with no previous experience in computational fluid dynamics. The work-flow is intuitive, there is lots of good documentation that get you up to speed quickly. There is also amazing support available through the user forum and the very helpful SimScale staff. Thanks to the simple interface and the fact that all tools one needs for CFD from meshing to the visualisation are in one place, it's easy to generate results quickly. The possibility to import the models directly from OnShape is a nice touch. The free 3000 core hours on the community account are generous and were more than I needed to complete my project. **What do you dislike about SimScale?** Some stages of the work-flow can take long to load. Inspecting the mesh or visualising the final results can require some patience. For future use, I will probably analyse the results off-line with a 3rd-party software. **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** I was optimising the geometry of a RC plane. SimScale helped me to understand the effect of the dimensions of the wings and the fuselage on total lift and drag. ### 14. The best CFD software and community. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Renan S. | Aerodinamicista, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 21, 2020 **What do you like best about SimScale?** Well, besides the SimScale's primary goal, that is solving CFD and FEA problems on the cloud, the community they built is just the best in the world in my opinion, they have a lot of articles and tutorials about CFD and FEA simulation, and their archives just keeps growing. Users and employees trade knowledge, and their support has a time record answering rate (believe me, you won't find it anywhere else). **What do you dislike about SimScale?** Doesn't run 2D analysis, also needs to co-work with a CAD software. **Recommendations to others considering SimScale:** How i've mentioned, SimScale is more then a software, it teachs you a lot. I think it's the right place for solving your CFD problems without any top hardware while trading a lot of knowledge with the people who uses the software. **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** I'm part of an Aerodesign team, however my university doesn't teach CFD things, SimScale not just ran my simulations, but taught me how to do that. That's the biggest point about SimScale. ### 15. Using SimScale for Academic Purposes **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 18, 2021 **What do you like best about SimScale?** The program is easy to learn and has plenty of resources to aid the user. The forum has quick replies from the SimScale professionals. **What do you dislike about SimScale?** Some features are lacking in SimScale that one would typically see with other CFD programs, specifically in the post-processor. **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am using SimScale for HVAC simulations. The simulation setup is easy, and the website has plenty of tutorials and resources that help the user. ### 16. The community and support is just way beyond amazing. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Magnus Leander O. | Technical Support, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 02, 2021 **What do you like best about SimScale?** It is user friendly. There is a lot of help to find in the community. The chat-support is just beyond amazing. The website as well is pretty well-organized compared to how much information is on there. The search engine is also satisfying. **What do you dislike about SimScale?** Nothing really. Would be nice to have a broader library of fluids and solids. I do not know if this comes with the pro-editions. **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** I needed to figure out how fast nitrogen stabilized in temperature through a 316L Stainless Steel pipe. Even though there is not a default 316L in the solids-library(at least not in the community edition), you're able to adjust necessary parameters of the steel pipe default to match a 316L pipe. ### 17. A great software that is very powerful and easy to use with an amazing friendly support team **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mohammad A. | Web Content Writer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 12, 2021 **What do you like best about SimScale?** I like the cloud as a whole idea especially the advance concepts like MRF and AMI. CFD, FEA, and thermal simulations are very trustworthy. and love how the support team was very helpful. the documentation section is very handy and accessible. **What do you dislike about SimScale?** the beta post-process result solution field is still need some improving **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** My project was to simulation a micro wind turbine in order to know the magnitude wind speed that required to rotate the blades at certain rad/s. I solved it by using the advance concepts like MRF. ### 18. The best CAE platform accessible for everyone **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Christian B. | Head Of Aerodynamics & Pilot, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 03, 2020 **What do you like best about SimScale?** SimScale is perfect for any engineer, specially for thoso who don't have a powerfull machine with high-end hardware. Everything is processed in the cloud, making it accessible for everyone. Also, SimScale is extremely intuitive! By far the best interface I've ever seen regarding CFD and FEA softwares/platforms. Tutorials are well made and it is noticeable how SimScale care about their costumers. SimScale is always ready to offer high quality support, if needed. **What do you dislike about SimScale?** Easy question: nothing so far. SimScale shows a very nice sense of excelence in everything. **Recommendations to others considering SimScale:** For anyone looking for a vey intuitive and cloud based CAE platform, SimScale is the way to go. Sign in for the trial plan and check it out! **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use SimScale mostly for CFD analyses for the electric prototype of my Formula Student's team. I'm very satisfied with how quick every simulation is done. I've never reached such performance in the previous softwares I've worked with. Specially with vehicle aerodynamics, SimScale is extremely straightforward to what is needed for the calculation, giving no headaches to worry about. ### 19. Best software for learning and starting with cfd simulations! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Patrick S. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 25, 2020 **What do you like best about SimScale?** - very user friendly UI - stacked community with tons of help and advises - using the open projects of other members to learn - chat-funktion with the ability for the support to have a look at your current project - possibility of using online IT-ressources in one of the premium plans **What do you dislike about SimScale?** Doesn't noticed anything so far. It's just easy to use with a powerful support and community **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use simscale for simulating parts of our formula student racecar. For us as a first year aerodynamics team, the structured UI and the many examples with FSAE content are a big advantage to us. ### 20. Free for students who want to learn CAE and an excellent alternative for professionals. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ahmed Osama M. | Research Assistant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 16, 2020 **What do you like best about SimScale?** I love the fact that you don't need a computer with high-performance specifications to perform your simulations, you just need to open your browser. Also, you can import your geometry directly into it without issues. The user interface is friendly and easy to use (perhaps even easier than other commercial software). I thought that I would struggle to create my own simulation because I have experience with some commercial software, but I was mistaken and I learned in a few minutes, and after a couple of hours my simulation was running. Another amazing capability is that you can run your simulation and close your browser normally and it will send you an email notification when the simulation is done. And you can run more than one simulation at the same time. The automatic meshing is also pretty good and gives multiple options. **What do you dislike about SimScale?** This applies to the free version: There are some limitations with regard to the automatic meshing, and I believe it can be improved and more options can be added. The post-processing has some really good visualizations, but the options are limited, and you need special processing to obtain scalars that were not directly computed by the simulation. **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am using SimScale to simulate the airflow inside a centrifugal compressor at different flow rates and operating conditions, ### 21. Very handy and computer friendly I would say ..learning at simscale is fun **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Om N. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 14, 2020 **What do you like best about SimScale?** The best thing about the simscale is that . It is computer friendly we don't have to forget our laptops for hours (for simulation) also there is great projects out there from which we can view and learn . Also the community is just wow!! the technical support we get is another level just think who keeps customer service for a free user simscale does that and it's very delightful.i got a great cfd mentor from simscale (who is just awesome) **What do you dislike about SimScale?** Everything is good but the interface just becomes messy if u do t have large laptop or desktop screen **Recommendations to others considering SimScale:** first go to the free tutorial series that they provide for free **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** CFD ,FEM ### 22. A really great product! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Fawzan S. | Aerodynamics and Composites, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 21, 2020 **What do you like best about SimScale?** The best feature is the fact that you can run your simulations on online cores simultaneously, so your laptop specifications do not really matter. It is really easy to use and the automated meshing is very impressive. **What do you dislike about SimScale?** There isn't much to dislike. The one little thing is that the surface splitting could be improved a little. Other than that, it is a really well-rounded product. **Recommendations to others considering SimScale:** Really do try it. If you think you need a good internet connection for it to run, don't worry. You'll need to only upload your geometry and everything else happens online on their servers. And if you don't have any experience with CFD altogether, they even have a SimScale Academy that provides various courses, some even for free to help you learn and use the software better. **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have a very low spec laptop, so CFD analysis is very cumbersome to do on it. But as SimScale works on an online platform, it decreases running time and is a very user-friendly interface. So we don't need any high end laptop but only a good internet connection. ### 23. High supportive staff and very high end technical guidance and very cooperative **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rajasekhar R. | graduate engineer- building physics , Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 22, 2020 **What do you like best about SimScale?** First of all the Simscale GUI is very user friendly. Indeed the meshing part is very easy compared to remaining commercial tools like ANSYS and Starccm ++. also the meshing is very accurate and really helping to converge the simulation faster. coming to the software, it is very easy to learn and there are numerous tutorials are available in the public project library. coming to the technical assistance, the staff are highly interactive, co operative and highly informative as well. Also this saves a lot of hardware and software resources for the corresponding end engineer or customer due to its web based flexibility. **What do you dislike about SimScale?** there is nothing much to dislike. i am literally exploring lot of technical stuff, enhancing my technical skills as well. there is some limited access to LBM, pedestrial comfort solvers. however they are providing 3000 cpu hours for free with maximum 16 processors. indeed one can generate 25 to 30 million cells at a time for a particular project. **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** i am solving problems related to in compressible flow, problems related to thermal analysis of data centers, species transport equations etc. since i am a free user, i am having access to 3000 cpu hours and 16 processors. so this is really helping me to overcome my computational resource issues. also interacting with the technical staff helps me to update the technical skills to the best. this makes me to solve more and more problems. ### 24. Simscale, a nice option to work with **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** César G. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 23, 2020 **What do you like best about SimScale?** Simscale is a very friendly software on the cloud, which is able to give you good results of every analysis you make to your projects. **What do you dislike about SimScale?** Sometimes it gets a little slow due to internet connection **Recommendations to others considering SimScale:** Different way to show results **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** I've used CFD and FEA and at this moment all those works have worked fine, some issues that I've had with different softwares, this one made all those simple and easy to understand. ### 25. Amazing customer service and technical help! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dawson C. | Advance Product Development Intern , Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 14, 2020 **What do you like best about SimScale?** LOVE the text chat and super helpful advice especially for those just learning. They help walk you through just about any problem. No question is a bad one, and they help to make sure you understand every part of the way. **What do you dislike about SimScale?** The tutorial basis for Formula SAE is based on their old UI. So following along is slightly more difficult. However, I have been told this is something that will change in the near future! **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** SimScale is allowing my Formula SAE team to design, validate, and build an aerodynamic package through their CFD software. For our team this is crucial, as we do not have the computing power at the moment to run these time consuming simulations. SimScale's cloud-based approach allows us to run any complex simulation on an absolute potato of a computer! ### 26. Revolutionary! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lucas S. | Capitão Administrativo, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 03, 2020 **What do you like best about SimScale?** We are an AeroDesign team based in Brazil, so we can't afford to buy a high-tech cluster for CFD and FEM analysis. Until 2019 we were struggling on poor machines with low processing capacities. After we met SimScale, everything changed! It's a low-cost subscription-based platform with full capabilities of a big cluster. Our projects are evolving exponentially with SimScale and we hope to keep this partnership forever! **What do you dislike about SimScale?** We can't complain about anything that SimScale offers to us. The platform is intuitive and easy to use. Results are shown fast and there is almost no tricky details to change. **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** SimScale help us to solve heavy CFD and FEM simulations for our Aerodesign Team without an expensive cluster. ### 27. This has a great user friendly interface for new users and offers easier CFD simulations. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Arun M. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 12, 2020 **What do you like best about SimScale?** This is an online platform so no need of downloading or installation of any software. The user interface was quite good and very helpful to start CFD simulations. **What do you dislike about SimScale?** Nothing much to write here. As it is completely web based so sometimes difficult in saving the data. **Recommendations to others considering SimScale:** This is the best platform to start with CFD simulations. **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am from a Formula Student Electric team and we use Simscale for aerodynamic study of the air flow over car. We also do CFD simulations of air flow in and around the accumulator package. All these simulations are very simple with Simscale. ### 28. Simscale as an intuitive browser-based simulator **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Research | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 25, 2020 **What do you like best about SimScale?** SimScale is very user friendly as there are many articles and posts that can guide even users new to this type of software. In addition to this, SimScale also has an active support team who will more than happily answer any questions you have and provide any help needed. **What do you dislike about SimScale?** It's slightly difficult for beginners, but even with this, there are so many articles and forum posts that will most likely answer any questions or issues that you have. The SimScale team will also answer any questions you have which is absolutely wonderful. **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** Right now, I'm using SimScale as a wind tunnel simulation for a research report. The SimScale team would always help with no hesitation whatsoever; it's an extremely pleasant experience especially as someone with no experience in this kind of software. ### 29. Best Communication Platforms on top of Quality Simulations **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** 병연 . | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 17, 2020 **What do you like best about SimScale?** They run a direct chat room in the web. Whenever I tried to contact to ask questions from the scratch, they replied very quickly just like a personal tutor. It is good to learn. **What do you dislike about SimScale?** I haven't found yet any severe issues regarding the software. **Recommendations to others considering SimScale:** They run a awesome communication platform. !! **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** The web-based CFD platform is good to operate in non-profit organizations. ### 30. Really helpful community, really nice and easy ui **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Roshan P. | Founder, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 14, 2020 **What do you like best about SimScale?** I found that the software has a very straightforward UI and is easy for beginners to try and test **What do you dislike about SimScale?** didn't find anything to dislike but I would like to see compressed cfd added to the software **Recommendations to others considering SimScale:** Do choose this software if you are working on a thesis or are a beginner as it has an easy ui **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** CFD and I've realized that simscale keeps getting the community to help each other making it fun to learn and do stuff I've never done ### 31. A Very User Friendly FEA program **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Cam J. | Owner / Audio Product Design Specialist, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 01, 2020 **What do you like best about SimScale?** I had a new heatsink extrusion design that I wished to prove-out in a more detailed manner than I normally do, and decided to look into doing so in FEA. Perusing the web to find programs out there that would fit the bill, I quickly came to a couple of conclusions: 1. What was out there and free to use, would have likely taken me weeks to learn. 2. What was out there for me to purchase was expensive, and still not very user friendly to come up to speed on. 3. Regardless of price, the SimScale program seemed to be the most user friendly. I could get my feet wet by using the program for free for 3000 "core hours" (Simulation duration * number of cores used), and this sounded like a really great way to get my feet wet. I really like that there are a ton of tutorials on You Tube for this software, which was not true of any of the other competitors. That coupled with the number of "public" projects on their website, allowed me to get up and going pretty quickly. I created my design in 3D cad and imported into SimScale. It took me a few tries to finally get my simulation work properly and when I got stumped (it happened twice) I was able to ask for and receive help via online chat. I thought they were very nice in helping me out (I was after all using the software for free) and just a couple of small hints from their staff got me heading in the right direction. After 3 to 4 two to three hour sessions I had my 1st design up and running properly. I was most appreciative of the online chat help as it allowed me to get up and running and have a very favorable experience with their tool. My next simulations will come much easier for me now that I have this 1st one under the belt. **What do you dislike about SimScale?** The annual subscription is about $4800 a year and that is a ton of money for a little one-man shop where FEA usage might happen just 1 or 2 times a year. I wish they had some kind of a monthly rental program or perhaps some kind of pay as you go service where you buy X number of core hours to use as this would be much for friendly for the small business user. **Recommendations to others considering SimScale:** Give it a try! With the Community license, trying out the software in painless. **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** I need to do simulations for natural and forced convection electronic product design. SimScale seems like it will do nicely for this purpose! ### 32. Intuitive workflow, robust default mesher and very supportive assistance **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dario P. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 25, 2020 **What do you like best about SimScale?** Definitely Simscale is a walk in park compared to famous commercial CFD software. The GUI is very intuitive and the simplified workflow together with a robust default mesher and scalable computational power allow you to get results quickly. The large amount of tutorials and public projects makes easier for you to learn about settings for different type of physics. The icing on the cake is the knowlegeable and immediately responsive assistance, who has given me help on time to get important results from my simulations. Particularly Mehmet Özcan has even provided me solutions with a video tutorial made in the middle of a Saturday night! Thanks a lot Mehmet and to all Simscale application engineers! **What do you dislike about SimScale?** The fluid material library should be expanded. You need a good internet connection to postprogess large geometries without struggling. **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** I'm using Simscale mainly for conjugate heat transfer processes in battery thermal management applications. In addition I'm carring over also gas multicomponent compressible simulations. Main benefit are less setting parameters than commercial CFD software, a shorter workflow to hit the run buttom and get results for the next design iteration. ### 33. Simscale CFD simulation **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sebastian Søgaard J. | R&D Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 23, 2020 **What do you like best about SimScale?** I have used Simscale's CFD tool for some tasks. For the time being, I try to become proficient in CFD simulations, by doing a variety of tasks. I often get fed up with no background knowledge, but I found that Simscale's platform is very intuitive to use. In addition, there is fantastic support, among other things. via their live chat. I have been writing to Mehmet for the past few weeks and he has provided really good support, he seems incredibly competent. So I like the good plastfrom and also the great support **What do you dislike about SimScale?** I am new to CFD simulations, so I often gets challenges and it is time consuming for me, but it basically has nothing to do with Simscale **Recommendations to others considering SimScale:** Simscale is good and easy to use, it is quick to get started and there is really good support **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** Ventilation comfort in buildings ### 34. Awesome Platform **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Panagiotis Christos V. | Mechanical Engineering Consulting Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 30, 2020 **What do you like best about SimScale?** The ability to access CFD without the requirement of expensive computer hardware **What do you dislike about SimScale?** I have not found anything yet in the platform that I can say I do not like. **Recommendations to others considering SimScale:** Go for it. Use the trial period to familiarize yourselves and you will be amazed by the results. **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have used it for small HVAC air distribution optimization projects. It is a fabulus tool for the engineering team enabling the visualization of flow patterns. Visualization of HVAC air streams and air speed for comfort purposes and minimizing the use of duct work and fan power. ### 35. Outstanding online simulation software in a nutshell **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dani A. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 03, 2020 **What do you like best about SimScale?** Every change you make is instantly saved. **What do you dislike about SimScale?** Learning curve (like every CFD software) **Recommendations to others considering SimScale:** Don't hesitate to contact support when you are in need of help. The support team consists of expert CFD engineers that will most likely solve your problem in a matter of minutes! **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** SimScale has allowed us to succesfully test the aero performance of a racing motorbike. Using their online software, we've been able to simulate huge virtual wind tunnels that otherwise would have required inmensely powerful (and expensive) machines to run at home. ### 36. The Cloud-Based Future **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Matus A. | Freelance Optical Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 17, 2020 **What do you like best about SimScale?** Quick, intuitive design combined with all necessary functions to run your simulations. Lots of tutorials and great support. **What do you dislike about SimScale?** Can't really see anything to dislike here. **Recommendations to others considering SimScale:** Go try it and have fun. **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** I've done some thermal simulations to test and optimize my heatsinks shape and size. ### 37. Great! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Karen E. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 23, 2020 **What do you like best about SimScale?** Support replies fast and accurately! Also, user interface is highly intuitive and friendly **What do you dislike about SimScale?** I think there are some limitations on the amount of streamlines you can put in your model **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** I'm analyzing wings for an aeronautic project I'm working on ### 38. Professional, easy to use analysis software every engineer should try! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kevin S. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 18, 2020 **What do you like best about SimScale?** I really like that the whole platform is cloud based, meaning I never lose my work and don't have to be bounded to one or two computers where I have my software. Furthermore, all of the functionalities that I can find in softwares like Ansys are here, and all presented in easy to use, friendly platform. Library of public projects, classes and tutorials provides a great support for whoever is using the software. Overall, it is a very intuitive software with great support team behind. **What do you dislike about SimScale?** I have been using this software for few weeks now and nothing can come to my mind! **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am looking at aerodynamics performance of prototype car for Shell ECO Marathon. ### 39. Prompt and comprehensive tech support. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Murtadha Bazli T. | Senior Embedded System Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 27, 2020 **What do you like best about SimScale?** Friendly User Interface simulator with prompt tech support. **What do you dislike about SimScale?** The simulation took long time to complete for brief design analysis but, understandable due to free version usage :D. **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** Simulation intermittently failed but run okay after retry. With online simulation tools, the benefits is obvious (no high end PC/GPU required and it's free) ### 40. The easiest why to use OpenFOAM, whrever you are, and with very helpful customer service. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Joao P. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 26, 2020 **What do you like best about SimScale?** A wide range of tutorials and the company's fast support make this the best platform to learn CFD and put it into practice. Due to being a cloud-based software, the computational limitations are very small, allowing to develop very complex projects. **What do you dislike about SimScale?** Sometimes it can be a little complex. But the tutorials and support available can help you solve problems **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** Simscale helped us develop part of our FSAE car, through some FEA and CFD. ### 41. Simscale is a great online software for any end users. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Saifuddin R. | Co-Founder and Engineering Team Lead, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 06, 2020 **What do you like best about SimScale?** This is an online-based platform to access my simulation. **What do you dislike about SimScale?** Some modules where they can really upgrade it. **Recommendations to others considering SimScale:** Simscale can gather a community in the university. They can arrange a panel discussion by their local representative. Moreover, they can build a hub to join with a value of E-learning. **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have no problem to learn here. This really helps to draw some knowledge of engineering simulation ### 42. Excellent platform for free learning **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rishi D. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 01, 2020 **What do you like best about SimScale?** Free cloud computing for advance simulation and online training sessions and webinars. **What do you dislike about SimScale?** The workbench and the PDF from which we are learning is not exactly the same, it's very difficult for beginners to spot different function buttons. **Recommendations to others considering SimScale:** Excellent platform for advanced computing for free. **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** CFD on Formula student vehicle front wing. I have got to know the right approach behind simulations. ### 43. SimScale has proven an excellent and intuitive tool to better understand the dynamics of an FSAE car **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jeremy M. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 18, 2020 **What do you like best about SimScale?** The online interface is very convenient. **What do you dislike about SimScale?** The enclosure tool feels clunky and doesn’t have much control. **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am solving the problem of directing airflow over an FSAE vehicle to reduce drag and increase the downforce on the car to decrease lap times and increase performance. ### 44. Powerful & user friendly cloud-based platform designed to solve problems. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mislav B. | Chief aerodynamicist, Mechanical or Industrial Engineering, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 27, 2019 **What do you like best about SimScale?** For a project with tight deadlines, Simscale offers great solutions for an individual who wants to save time & learn along the process. Also, the ability to start simulating multiple cases at once in cloud; presents an excellent approach in an iterative optimization process. **What do you dislike about SimScale?** Downsides to consider: - excellent internet performance needed to ensure the best possible experienc **Recommendations to others considering SimScale:** I encourage everyone who is at the beginning of their CFD journey or individuals who seek a quality-driven platform for their development process to use Simscale since it will provide the individual with proper knowledge and methodology orientation. **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** My team used Simscale to optimize the aero-package of our open-wheel racing car intended for the Formula Student competition. Benefits: - CFD knowledge upgrade - time saving - easy to use ### 45. Excellent technical support and user friendly interface **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Paul C. | Mechanical Engineer Consultant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 31, 2020 **What do you like best about SimScale?** The technical support has fast response, and the set-up for the cases is pretty straightforward with the guidance and GUI interface. **What do you dislike about SimScale?** The geometry tool construction is very basic and some physics in radiation like DO radiation model are not present at the moment. **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** HVAC Quick mesh settings Assigning BCs quickly ### 46. Great customer service and simulation environment **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 22, 2020 **What do you like best about SimScale?** The fast response of the technical support and the simple user interface of the different simulation types. **What do you dislike about SimScale?** The geometry tool could be a bit more complex so that easy CAD operations are possible. The second point is that the heat transfer coefficient should be simulated to as an own parameter (for CHT simulations). **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** CHT Thermomechanical Incompressible the easy mesh generation ### 47. Awesome CFD Experience **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** paras g. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 10, 2020 **What do you like best about SimScale?** It's cloud based and hence can be used anytime anywhere. Multiple simulations can be run at the same time the help is available 24/7 **What do you dislike about SimScale?** The post-processor needs to buckle up. I prefer paraview **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am solving external and internal aerodynamics, mrf and ami meshing, learning cfd through blogs and documents. I have become better at understanding numerical schemes and solvers and also a bit of fea through simscale academy training. ### 48. OUR TEAM HAS BEEN USING SIMSCALE FOR A LONG TIME NOW AND ARE CONTENT WITH THE SOFTWARE . **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** SPCE R. | Formula Student Team, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 14, 2020 **What do you like best about SimScale?** THE SOFTWARE'S ACCURACY AND ONLINE WORKING ON IT **What do you dislike about SimScale?** THE TIME IT TAKES SOMETIMES FOR SOME BIG SIMULATIONS **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** WE ARE CURRENTLY USING THE CFD ANALYSIS . IT'S RESULTS ARE BETTER AND FASTER THAN ANY OTHER SOFTWARE . ### 49. One of the best software and platform to learn and implement CFD and other engineering simulations. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dhanesh P. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 22, 2019 **What do you like best about SimScale?** The prompt response by the technical support team, the workshops conducted, the community and the forums all add up to the experience of SimScale A first time user can make use of the features without a problem and an advance level user has the freedom to tweak the simulation according to the model. The cloud based computing also drastically reduces the time required and parallel computing helps compare different iterations effortlessly. **What do you dislike about SimScale?** Simscale has always been improving to ensure best customer satisfaction. I have always run out of core hours even after additional hours have been added multiple times by the SimScale team. That just goes to prove how important and useful this software has been to the work. Apart from the limited core hours the post processing is one aspect where SimScale can improve by providing many more options and giving users more freedom to play around. **Recommendations to others considering SimScale:** Start by seeing all the videos and workshops provided by SimScale. Go through similar public projects and make full use of the community and the support group. **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have been using SimScale to simulate the aerodynamic loads on a FSAE style race-car. I have also been using it to simulate the cooling of the batteries in the accumulator and of the radiator. The cloud based parallel computing has allowed me to iterate a lot more than i could conventionally have. It wouldn't have been possible to design simulate or improve the performance of the car without SimScale. ### 50. Always a positive experience **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Althea d. | Director, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 20, 2019 **What do you like best about SimScale?** There are so many aspects of Simscale that I like but probably the best is the flexible access, allowing me to use the facilities when I have a simulation project and not waste money on underutilised hardware of software when I don't have a project. And of course the support is second to none. **What do you dislike about SimScale?** There are downsides? I found the previous meshing tool a little awkward but it is now much improved. **Recommendations to others considering SimScale:** Start of with a trial and don't be shy about asking for support. They will usually solve queries very quickly and pass on useful tips along the way. **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** The cases are very varied. Building flow, internal and external have featured. 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