SIMULIA Reviews & Product Details

A myriad number of solvers from time domain to asymptotic along with support for multiphysics simulations enable designers to solve practically any structure and visualise the results within the same suite. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Support for SIMULIA can be improved; both in the form of documentation/detailed step by step in-built examples as well as quality technical support from Application Engineers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The interface and setup is relatively intuitive (IF you've used FEA CAE software in the past). It's relatively quick and easy to import a model or assembly and start working on it, as it's seamlessly integrated into SolidWorks (assuming you have the pro license for Simulation). Results are easy to interpret and easy to export reports for as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Firstly, it's not as robust as it could be--but then I've used ANSYS Workbench in the past, which is quite involved, unintuitive, but very comprehensive. There are times you'll struggle to get parts or features to mesh where there are certain assumptions that should have been made by the software. A lot of the time, even though my environment defaults are imperial, I'll get my results in ANSI/metric. It's quickly resolved by modifying the properties for the IPS I want, but it seems a bit silly that the software defaults and my model are created in imperial IPS units, but I get my results in mmgs. I've also had problems with complex assemblies or parts with varying geometries meshing and analyzing, and some scenarios where I couldn't run iterative analysis and had to work through large-displacement instead. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The particle flow simulation is fantastic and very easy to set up. Also running tests to find proper volumes is very helpful and also eliminates a lot of manual testing time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Tests ran a little slow, and the animations were not very long before you'd have to restart them. Also the choices for particulates are very specific, but lack ordinary objects like house hold dust and hair, which would be useful for designing vacuum cleaners.

And finally the input for some of the flow simulations were not in the units given by manufacturers so I had to do some of the calculations by hand, which was rather tedious.

Volume analysis doesn't work on negative spaces, so spaces must be filled before hand, or made in a different file before being cut from the model. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

SolidWorks Simulation is a very useful tool for predicting the performance of spinal implants in different test setups. Static tests are pretty simple to set up and should give you meaningful results. We generally perform an FEA early in the design process to verify the product that is begin designed is safe enough to persue. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

While FEA does provide useful information, it is not a substitute for physical testing. Dynamic testing testing is also a little more difficult to set up and requires a powerful PC and lots of run time. Only people familiar with 3D Cad software such as SolidWorks should give this a shot as there is a big learning curve required for this software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Solidworks Simulation is fairly intuitive. It can be easy to learn and become proficient. Expert level understanding is a bit harder to get to. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes Solidworks Simulation has bugs for no understandable reason. Occasionally it has to be restarted to make it work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The ease of set up. I can set up a static simulation and within a few minutes know the safety factor for a part. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There could be some better tools to show what is causing meshes to fail. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The best part according to me is the fact that you can directly analyze your design without exporting the files and import them in another FEA software. The software is easy to use for easy to medium-difficult test cases, especially for static analysis. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The software is good for basic and early design analysis. When it comes to detailed FEA like dynamic analysis, the software gets pretty difficult to use and setup. I normally switch to other FEA specific software for such detailed studies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Interconnected to SolidWorks design software program. Easy for Finite Element Analysis, especially for testing process or beginners. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It lacks of the ability to provide good mesh, multi-physics capabilities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

This is a versatile FEA product. Tetrahedral mesh only with versatile refinement schemes. It has mesh quality display. Pretty good for general use. Linear simulation has the benefit of large displacements. Nonlinear is awesome.

Embedded in SolidWorks; does not lock up SolidWorks preventing from doing other work – depending on your hardware you still might work or other files than those used in the FEA. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is not much that I dislike. I guess, I would like to have more choices for mesh element type. Also, It would be nice if there was a one-click mthod of turning off the scene lighting scheme and switching to 100% ambient for viewing unbiased colors of the results plot - as it is available in the SolidWorks Flow Simulation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Very straight forward software to stimulate forces on a created 3D modeling. Many function such as displacement, stress, and failure mode are good demonstration of where could the product fails. It is the best way to visualize the theoretical knowledge. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

This product is quite expensive, especially for students. And all of the versions are not compatible to each other causing difficulty in working in group. Overall, it would be best if the versions of the same software are compatible or discontinue to support the older version. I would suggest giving discount for group of 4,5 students as it usually occurs that the software is used for group project. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.