--- 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: '2026-07-12' 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. Easy to use OpenFOAM simulation software with very helpful customer service **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Civil Engineering | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 27, 2019 **What do you like best about SimScale?** SimScale simplifies the use of OpenFOAM for CFD solutions and the product support team are extremely helpful, going above and beyond what is expected. It is an easy alternative for basic CFD simulations and has a wide range of features that enable basic simulations to be undertaken. **What do you dislike about SimScale?** There is limited functionality within SimScale for the types of scenarios you can run simulations on which limits the boundary conditions and overall useful of the software. They are continuously updating the software and feature offering so as the company grows there will definitely be greater range of simulation types and boundary conditions that can be used, giving a more complete and robust simulation experience. Organisation of the dashboard is lacking and messy. You can only sort by a few methods and no way to organise by project type or for a group of projects. **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** SimScale allows beginner CFD users to quickly generate OpenFOAM simulation with an easy to use user interface. It is great to have the cloud computing available to us and the quick customisation of projects to test different conditions. ### 2. It was a amazing experience. Learning simscale is quite easier and user friendly. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 25, 2019 **What do you like best about SimScale?** The biggest problem for me was the computational power which is solved by using Simscale. The meshing and simulation still run if you turn off your internet or computer, which is an excellent thing. The forum in Simscale is also beneficial and active. **What do you dislike about SimScale?** The downside is you need good internet to use Simscale. As a user, when we import geometry instead of solid, we have to select faces for forces and moments option (which is very painful) and still now I have not got any solution to this. Post-processing part can be improved more. **Recommendations to others considering SimScale:** It is easier to learn. **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** Simscale helps us in the design process of our car. It is time effective. ### 3. Real problem-solving support **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alberto Jose M. | Director, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 19, 2019 **What do you like best about SimScale?** The level of support is the best feature I´ve found as new user. Being aware that usually there is a final customer expecting results, I´ve found the support really efficient at clarifying doubts, explaining related features so they anticipate future problems and solving the issue so you can continue working to deliver. Even when there is some feature that does not properly work for any reason, they just take the case and fix/do it themselves. It is really a life-saving service, specially with a customer awaiting results. **What do you dislike about SimScale?** The workflow, however optimized and fast, is different from traditional CFD and must be learnt. Some problems or things done differently will always arise. **Recommendations to others considering SimScale:** Run some test cases from start to finish with your own geometry. The workflow is great but must be learnt because of its differences with tradditional CFD one. **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** Getting away from traditional CFD workflow limitations, license and scalability costs ### 4. Excellent software, coupled with the benefits of cloud computing **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rodrigo d. | Technical Director, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 27, 2019 **What do you like best about SimScale?** Excellent support, the software features meet my needs, and the benefit of cloud computing allows me to have much freedom, since I don't need to use an expensive cluster in order to run complex CFD simulations, nor need to keep my PC busy for a week in order to run a simulation. **What do you dislike about SimScale?** I am relatively new user, so I still couldn't find any downside to the software. **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** Desiging the aerodynamic package of our Formula SAE Electric car, and also analysing cooling option for our powertrain. ### 5. FABULOUS SOFTWARE PROVIDES FEM AND CFD UNDER ONE UMBRELLA **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** SARATH P. | DESIGN AND ANALYSIS ENGINEER, R & D , Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 24, 2019 **What do you like best about SimScale?** All sorts of basic FEA analysis like static, dynamic, modal analysis can be done in this software. I even used this software for the CFD analysis of flow in pipe. Active customer support and chat options available for the smooth flow of work. A happy user so far. **What do you dislike about SimScale?** Mesh nodes cannot be selected for applying loads. **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** Basic mechanical structure design problems are being carried out in the software. Compare the analytical results with the simulation answers. Confidence in the design is the benefit you can achieve. ### 6. Outstanding CFD software for all types of projects **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Josh K. | MSc Automotive Engineering student, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 11, 2019 **What do you like best about SimScale?** Web based CFD software that runs simulations of projects in parallel. Reducing time and increasing productivity. The free accounts offer a great amount of processing credit per year (3000 core hours), which is computed through the cloud and via a super computer. Resulting in your computer able to be used for other tasks. The graphical representations and the ability to run simulations at the same time is the main reason i used this for my university project. Also the help from the public forum and Simscale staff are vitally useful for when an extra person's input is needed to overcome any gremlins in a project. The learning resources are additionally helpful to get upto speed with the settings and parameters used in the mesh and simulations stages. **What do you dislike about SimScale?** The only temporary drawback is the post processor is under a revamp, meaning i am using their previous post processor Paraview to obtain my visual screenshots and surface data contours. **Recommendations to others considering SimScale:** Try it before you regret not using it for your project. Especially good for university work and also gives University Formula student teams help and increased benefits and core hours to aid their vehicle designs and validations. **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am researching into optimising my university's recent formula student car, whilst also addressing the benefits and disadvantages of using a full aerodynamic package as compared to optimised bodywork and Underbody. ### 7. Our team (APEX racing team) used simscale to study our car in CFD and it was a great experience **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 18, 2019 **What do you like best about SimScale?** Customer service is helping alot through our studying **What do you dislike about SimScale?** I think they should widen their advertisement in Egypt **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** I don't have the PC that allows me to do a professional mesh and simulation and simscale provides me the capability of doing what I want ### 8. Great for long projects **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Hardware | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 08, 2019 **What do you like best about SimScale?** I like being able to close out the window and going about my day instead of always having the computer running on a simulation **What do you dislike about SimScale?** Some configurations have little explanation **Recommendations to others considering SimScale:** It's a great web based thermal simulation program that has functionality and is affordable. **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** Heat transfer, visualization ### 9. Great online software with very good learning resources **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 24, 2019 **What do you like best about SimScale?** The workshops offered by the SimScale team are very useful to learn the basics of usage and even CFD concept, so I tend to recommend it to my students. The fact that is an online app, let you access it from anywhere and with any computer, without the need of having huge computational resources for your CFD simulations. **What do you dislike about SimScale?** Post-processing might be a bit slow for large CFD simulations. **Recommendations to others considering SimScale:** SimScale is based on OpenFoam, so consider learning OpenFoam functionaltity as well to improve your experience. **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have used mainly for external flows, and to prepare academic cases for my students. I find it very useful and with a very good integrated work pipeline. ### 10. This is a revolutionary design tool that combines CFD, FEA, and thermal simulation **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dale K. | President, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 29, 2018 **What do you like best about SimScale?** After decades of dabbling in CFD, I finally found an analysis environment that was truly worth taking the time to get to know. SimScales unique browser based workbench, which accesses remote supercomputer cores using proven OpenFOAM algorithms, makes professional design validation available for all who care to learn. Combine that with a dedicated on-line forum that has very fast response time for all levels of help and there simply is no longer any reason to put off learning how to include these modern design disciplines into your design process. **What do you dislike about SimScale?** With about 200 new feature requests available for a user to vote on, SimScale limits the number of votes available to a user. This requires a user to constantly review all 200 or more current feature suggestions to make sure the user is using his limited number of votes on the features most important to the user. As a user I am not willing to constantly waste my time to determine where my few votes should go as new feature requests are added to the list. As a result I do not vote for any... **Recommendations to others considering SimScale:** Give it a try! **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** Using SimScales workbench has allowed me to more precisely analysis my new designs with less effort and with more confidence that the product will perform as predicted. ### 11. Powerful cloud-based CAE software. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 22, 2019 **What do you like best about SimScale?** Since it’s cloud-based Simscale it’s a must if you nedd a CAE software and you don’t have a powerful computer. One of the most user-friendly software i’ve ever used in addition they have a huge list of tutorials in Simscale academy. **What do you dislike about SimScale?** The high dependence on the internet. They could improve a little their post-process features. **Recommendations to others considering SimScale:** Use their tutorials **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mainly CFD simulations (external flow). I’ve learned a lot with their tutorials not only in CFD but in FEA too. ### 12. Simscale: Great enterprise with fantastic staff **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Hardware | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 04, 2019 **What do you like best about SimScale?** The cloud based computing is the best aspect of Simscale in my experience. The cloud based nature lowers the bar of entry. I can work with Simscale anywhere with wifi through my laptop, which is a great advantage. Additionally, I did not need to purchase an expensive workstation or PC to start running simulations! **What do you dislike about SimScale?** The only downside I have encountered so far is the limited number of computing cores offered to free users. That said, the fact that they offer free personal accounts at all is a fairly unique opportunity in this realm of software/engineering modelling. **Recommendations to others considering SimScale:** There is a bountiful supply of simulation tutorials and discussion available. Take advantage of the free resources. **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have been working primarily on CFD simulation problem. Next, I plan on starting thermal modelling. ### 13. Perfect CFD Workflow **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 15, 2019 **What do you like best about SimScale?** Simscale's support allows you to create meshing and simulation settings that work for the problem at hand, and then the duplication feature allows you to simultaneously iterate through different geometries and configurations. This allows a very large design space to be traversed and explored efficiently, as multiple solutions to the same problem can be investigated at the same time on the cloud computers and all you need to do is setup, run, and wait for the nice email in the morning saying that your simulation runs finished overnight **What do you dislike about SimScale?** Free accounts used to come with 32 cores but now are 16 (for CFD simulations), although this is not a problem if you seriously use Simscale and move to a better account subscription **Recommendations to others considering SimScale:** Make a free account and give it a shot! there is nothing to lose and plenty of courses and support to help you solve any engineering simulation problem **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am creating aerodynamic packages for racecars, and the duplication has made 3D iterations massively easier and less complicated. Multiple geometries can be made and uploaded and solved simultaneously, making the entire work flow quicker, cleaner and much more time efficient ### 14. Very accommodating and great service! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Micah B. | Project Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 04, 2019 **What do you like best about SimScale?** We are from a student design team and our contact from Simscale was able to meet all of our asks and was extremely helpful when we ran into problems. Furthermore, the technical support for our team was receptive as well. Overall fantastic! **What do you dislike about SimScale?** We have been using a lot of Core hours but I don't think that's Simscale's fault! **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** Our team is optimizing the aerodynamic efficiency of our car. In order to do this, we have been leveraging Simscale to run simulations on models of our aerobody. Maximizing our aerodynamic efficiency will be one of the most important factors in determining the success of our team and it couldn't be done without Simscale. ### 15. Running large CFD simulations from the comfort of my sofa! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Maritime | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 16, 2018 **What do you like best about SimScale?** As a hobbyist I love the fact that I can perform free surface simulations, that would normally require a large work station, utilizing just my laptop and cloud based solving from the comfort of my sitting room. The public forum and projects are brilliant learning resources and have helped me greatly in setting up my simulations. **What do you dislike about SimScale?** Manual meshing is fairly fiddly which can increase setup time. I will take a look at the automatic meshing process for my next simulations! Post processing is not as intuitive as I would like and also quite unresponsive but maybe that is my internet connection. **Recommendations to others considering SimScale:** The platform is a fantastic learning tool and gives the opportunity to interact and collaborate with other users. I am loving it and would recommend it to anyone that is interested in CFD. **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** The benefit of access to huge computational power is unquestionable. It gives me the opportunity to perform computations that would otherwise be impossible. ### 16. effective solition **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** ahmet faruk u. | Aerodynamics, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 06, 2019 **What do you like best about SimScale?** The best things about simscale is; really compact program, simple interface and successfully analysis. Also, training videos are clear. **What do you dislike about SimScale?** Some training videos old, İ think they could be updated. **Recommendations to others considering SimScale:** this application really successful but it hasn't many users. İ think it would be more common. You need adds for that. Formula Student training videos should be updated for new Simscale interface. **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** formula student car analysis for aerodynamic ### 17. Great support and program **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Oil & Energy | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 19, 2019 **What do you like best about SimScale?** The support guys are incredibly helpful at answering questions and troubleshooting your simulations to find the bugs. This cloud-based program makes modeling so much easier - you can access it from anywhere, and it is capable of solving large, complex problems. **What do you dislike about SimScale?** The time zone difference between support and the western US was a bit challenging (Europe, ~8 hrs later) But they were reliable and got back to me within a few days. **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** We were modeling a 2-phase tank filling at high speed, and analyzing the fluid flow. Despite the challenging conditions, this program gave us the results we needed to justify a design change that improved the safety of the system. ### 18. A very intuitive and easily manageable interface for CAE **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Fishery | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 30, 2019 **What do you like best about SimScale?** The intuitive and straight forward interface. **What do you dislike about SimScale?** The included post solver is adequate for many processes, but the tutorials does need a upgrade to the new interface. **Recommendations to others considering SimScale:** Great usage plans, based upon usage of calculation hours (core hours). Affordable compared to priority software. Very quick learning **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** CFD on fishing equipment. An understanding of the dynamics of the forming of the equipment. ### 19. Great CFD **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Machinery | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 30, 2018 **What do you like best about SimScale?** Great support Easy to use web-based Good price! even free for 3000 core hours if projects are shared and **What do you dislike about SimScale?** nothing at alllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** Air engineering ### 20. Reproduction is exceptionally educational with Simscale **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Aravind S. | CAE Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 13, 2017 **What do you like best about SimScale?** I like that Simscale is based on officially great open source programming openFOAM enabling the designers to incorporate new highlights and redesigns effectively. It permits customization from client level and distribute the forks to the group. **What do you dislike about SimScale?** There are a considerable measure of bugs and this should be settled. I frequently need to restart the program as it is stuck and this outcomes in information misfortune. **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** I did warm recreation on the motor complex to call attention to the strain focuses and increment the thickness of the material utilized. ### 21. I moved from Openfoam to Simscale **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Andrew H. | Product Designer, Automotive, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 03, 2017 **What do you like best about SimScale?** The compatibility is the primary reason everyone should opt for this software. It integration with other CAE programs only adds the value and brings the best as a package. **What do you dislike about SimScale?** Recreation programming turns out to be exceedingly mind boggling because of the association between various physical models, arrangement methodologies, and solver settings. This prompts advancement bottlenecks and challenges in testing and approval. **Recommendations to others considering SimScale:** With more engineers and creators depending on SimScale for their simulation needs with various solvers. It is an effective program, with a lot of highlights to browse and a CAE community wherein everybody can team up and share their work with their verisons. **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** Since it is based on open-source openfoam program all the upgrades are publicly available and can be modified to users content. ### 22. Simulation is very informative with Simscale **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Raja Aravind Reddy M. | BIW Design engineer-II, Automotive, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 13, 2017 **What do you like best about SimScale?** I like that Simscale is built on already good open source software openFOAM allowing the developers to include new features and upgrades easily. It allows customization from user level and publish the forks to the community. **What do you dislike about SimScale?** There are a lot of bugs and this needs to be fixed. I often have to restart the program as it is stuck and this results in data loss. **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** I did thermal simulation on the engine manifold to point out the strain points and increase the thickness of the material used. ### 23. Control Prototyping **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jaya sahitya B. | Design Engineer, Automotive, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 15, 2017 **What do you like best about SimScale?** Wiring a macro is easy and Very basic but one would understand in a better way what happens inside the software **What do you dislike about SimScale?** Here we can’t give any load conditions or boundary conditions and also we have to depend on other tool for preprocessing **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** A comprehensive modeling, simulation and computational implementation of buck converter using Simscale. It was way faster. ### 24. SimScale is best **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** John D. | CAE Engineer, Staffing and Recruiting, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 04, 2017 **What do you like best about SimScale?** I like the fact that SimScale is opensource. Every new implementation is an open idea and can upgraded, publish, tweaks, which only makes the this software even more productive for the Analysis. **What do you dislike about SimScale?** The solvers it provide very specific to domain of use. The compatibility issues still prevail. **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** I used Simscale in CFD analysis for a valve action on the heat flow control system. ### 25. Great software and fantastic support. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Darren L. | QA Engineer Intern, Computer Software, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 14, 2017 **What do you like best about SimScale?** I have access to many of the features I need in a CFD package, all from within the browser. But SimScale isn't just a great CAE package but is a great community and education resource. SimScale regularly conducts webinars on how to use its product in many industries, and also a community forum for discussion. SimScale staff are very close to their user base and regularly comment and interact in the forum. Regardless of the topic or complexity, there will always be someone with an answer. CAE packages are normally not very easy to navigate and are overly complex. SimScale, however, is neat and intuitive. The user is initially presented with a dashboard of all the user's projects, within these project there are three main tabs. The tabs are in a logical order from preprocessing, sim design then post-processing. within each of these tabs is a tree containing each geometry, mesh or simulation each containing branches for setup. If you have forgotten to do something within a branch (we have all been there right?!) then it sticks out like a sore thumb as a big red ring, and if all criteria are met for a branch it is a green ring. The user can then fire of a simulation run, which is a snapshot of settings and results, the user may then make modifications to the setup and fire another run off. When the results come back the user can choose to either post-process the results from right within the browser or they can download the results and post-process in Paraview. The user can also download a CSV of results from control items (such as force coefficients). **What do you dislike about SimScale?** SimScale are starting from scratch, which is, on one hand, good but it lacks a few features that some more advanced users may require. That said there is rapid growth, and staff monitor the forums for feature priority and ideas constantly. **Recommendations to others considering SimScale:** I recommend that if you are reading this at least sign up for a free community account and give it a go. **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** As a student and a mac user my choice of CAE engineering software is pretty restricted and as a student my CFD knowledge was limited. SimScale solved both these problems and I feel that no other community would have given me the knowledge I have now in this amount of time. I have since used other simulation packages but none feel as intuitive in my opinion. ### 26. A great platform with huge potential **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ajay B. H. | Scientific Co-Worker, Higher Education, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 14, 2017 **What do you like best about SimScale?** I liked their working interface and the fact that I do not need to use any of my personal computing resources. I can directly submit jobs to the cloud and would be intimated over email when the job is finished. In addition, I work across different platforms (Mac-Windows-Linux). Using a browser to setup simulations is extremely cool & really helpful **What do you dislike about SimScale?** As an academic user, I would like to freedom to try advanced models beyond what the boxes provide. This is something that I feel is a shortcoming. I also use other softwares like Abaqus & FEAP. FEAP is a open-source software. Abaqus is commercial. Both these allow for user elements and materials. As a material scientist, I find this extremely useful and necessary. Of course, I understand that SimScale is not presently meant for such usage. But I hope that they would facilitate this in the coming future **Recommendations to others considering SimScale:** SimScale is a great platform with wonderful potential. The people at the company with whom I have interacted are really nice & I am extremely confident that they will take the company in the right direction. I strongly wish them all the very best. I will look forward to increasing our collaboration in the coming future. **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** My primary area of research is in contact and fracture. I am also working with a start-up on composite materials. These are not the features that are supported by SimScale at the moment. With SimScale, I am trying to develop simple simulation examples and tools that can be used for teaching purposes. The biggest benefit is that I can run on any platform & use Paraview conveniently to create nice animations that can help learning more fun & comprehensive. ### 27. Direct access to simulation computing power **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Guillermo G. | Fundador, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 29, 2016 **What do you like best about SimScale?** I like the best the instant access to big computational power for Finite Elements and CFD analysis. Even on the free account, which demands your projects to be public, you can run simulations as big as 10 million CFD cells, on the cloud and without using any local resource, just an interface through your web browser. Also there is a really great community where one can learn from tutorials and public projects, ask questions and interchange opinions on simulation topics and specific problems. **What do you dislike about SimScale?** Still missing some crucial simulation functionality (such as finite elements structural models), but as stated by the company, this is coming. Also having a slow/intermittent internet connection can have a negative impact to productivity. Companies with restricted web access might not be able to use the platform. **Recommendations to others considering SimScale:** A must try for every simulation engineer, this is what could based engineering and simulation is all about. **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** Until now on evaluation and test projects, also learning and interacting with the community. Benefits are the direct access to computational power otherwise expensive and always sub-utilized, and the community support. ### 28. Low-level user of trial version **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Christopher S. | Product Development Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 24, 2016 **What do you like best about SimScale?** Access to many different physics types. Entirely cloud-based. **What do you dislike about SimScale?** Entirely separated from originating CAD. **Recommendations to others considering SimScale:** Simscale was the first entirely Web-based multiphysics simulation provider. In that regards, the bumps and turns in the road have been paved by them. In other regards, being Web-based they can and should continue the development of the toolsets keeping in mind that ease-of-use is paramount. That said, any novice user of higher-ended codes (such as ANSYS or COMSOL) should have no difficulty navigating the structural and fluid tools of Simscale. **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** Checking out web-base options in comparison to traditional desktop solutions. Overall cost of ownership could be less for a solution like Simscale. ### 29. Engineering in the Cloud! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mario L. | Mechanical Engineering Professor, Higher Education, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 26, 2016 **What do you like best about SimScale?** For many years I've told and by experience that CAE software requires a lot of space and resources, this means you need a reasonable decent computer if you want to run large simulations, well, with Simscale I can run the same large simulations even from a tablet! **What do you dislike about SimScale?** Just happened to me once and was for a very short period of time, when the servers goes offline or you have issues because something in the server side, it was quickly solved and because the nature of Simscale been in servers I'm surprised about the availability of it. **Recommendations to others considering SimScale:** Aside of the thousands! saved over a conventional Engineering Software, you don have to have a high performance machine, you can run several simulations at the same time without the necessity of computers turned on, you get an email when any simulation finishes and you have the team of Simscale willing to help you in anything. :) **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** Currently I'm teaching Engineering at University level and Simscale is the best option ever for software engineering, my students can signup for free and do their homework at home!, just with the access to a web browser, and also I can review their progress at the same time, this is highly valuable!. ### 30. Great Cloud-based Affordable CAE tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Oscar C. | Design and Analysis Engineer - Engineering Department, Mechanical or Industrial Engineering, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 21, 2016 **What do you like best about SimScale?** - It can be used from anywhere. - The staff and community are a great support. - Can be used for free - GUI for OpenFoam - Great tutorials for different very interesting applications - Compatible with some other cloud based CAD software - Good meshing tools **What do you dislike about SimScale?** - Still being developed, new features are added all the time - Requires internet - It does not include CAD design tools - Not widely known yet, so there are not as many validation cases for specific scenarios (although there are several validation cases in their documentation). **Recommendations to others considering SimScale:** Make sure to see their video tutorials. **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** Water cooling problems, aerodynamic analysis, structural problems, ambient cooling, leak propagation, etc. Optimization of design based on feedback. ### 31. Amazing Cloud based Simulations Platform **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Abhishek V. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 27, 2016 **What do you like best about SimScale?** Simscale is pretty great! You have access to large simulation power, hard drive storage power and that too for free. It is easy to use and also has large amount of documentation. The best thing about SimScale has been its staff! The staff is really helpful. The staff was always ready to help whenever I had any problem. There is also an amazing forum with lot of knowledge. SimScale supports lot of CFD tools like various fluid models, turbulence models, passive - scalar transport, various numerical scheme. I am student and I am still learning CFD and SimScale has given a great insight into CFD. **What do you dislike about SimScale?** It lacks some features especially relating to the geometrical screen but it is adopting them. **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** Overall, I will say that it is an amazing product with a lot of amazing people behind!! ### 32. Ease and ramp-up on the platform **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vijay S. | ASIC Design Engineer, Semiconductors, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 27, 2016 **What do you like best about SimScale?** It takes the minimum time to set up a simulation on Simscale comparing any other product in the market. Extremely useful to quickly prototype simulation for various parameters? Simulation data can be stored in the cloud. A great reduction in the IT infrastructure/human-resource for the SMEs. **What do you dislike about SimScale?** Sometimes pre-processing takes a lot of time. **Recommendations to others considering SimScale:** Simscale allows you to have simulation data stored in the cloud. This can be a major benefit for all the companies who struggle to manage this data in-house saving overhead for IT infrastructure and human resource. **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** I didn't solve any business problem but tried some sample projects on the platform. I had worked and is using Wolfram Modeller, Solidworks, Catia, Ansys, Rhinoceros, Autodesk and CFD softwares. It was also very diffcult to setup simulation on those platforms. Simscale has reduced that barrier for everyone to quickly ramp and prototype a simulation. ### 33. One of the best CFD online tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 26, 2016 **What do you like best about SimScale?** The website simulation is very useful for the wide range of application in the real engineering problems. **What do you dislike about SimScale?** Nothing. Sometimes, without the connection, it is really hard but it is not fault the software and SimScale. **Recommendations to others considering SimScale:** Because my work is based on CFD simulation on the OpenFOAM sofware package I really appreciate for that oppurtunity for simulation with SimScale. **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** Because my work is based on CFD simulation on the OpenFOAM sofware package I really appreciate for that oppurtunity for simulation with SimScale. 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