# Working Model Reviews **Vendor:** Design Simulation Technologies **Category:** [Simulation & CAE Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/simulation-cae) **Average Rating:** 4.6/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 11 ## About Working Model Working Model is a dynamic simulator with connections to SolidWorks. ## Working Model Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users value the **quick simulation of mechanisms** in Working Model, allowing easy testing of ideas with minimal effort. (1 reviews) - Users value the **quick data visualization** capabilities, enabling effortless simulation of mechanisms and intuitive design exploration. (1 reviews) - Users value the **intuitive design usability** of Working Model, allowing quick and easy simulation of mechanisms. (1 reviews) - Users value the **ease of use** of Working Model, allowing quick simulations and intuitive designs for better understanding. (1 reviews) - Users love the **quick simulation capabilities** of Working Model, enabling fast testing of ideas without physical prototypes. (1 reviews) - Simulation (1 reviews) - Useful (1 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users find the **2D limitation** of Working Model restricts serious projects and compromises overall experience. (1 reviews) - Users find the **complex interface** limiting for serious projects, with outdated graphics and challenging collision simulation settings. (1 reviews) - Users find the **poor graphics quality** limiting for serious projects, feeling the interface is outdated and lagging. (1 reviews) - Users find the **slow simulation** to be limiting and frustrating, hindering serious project development and efficacy. (1 reviews) ## Working Model Reviews ### 1. Effortless Mechanism Simulation with Intuitive Design Tools **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 05, 2025 **What do you like best about Working Model?** The best part is being able to quickly simulate mechanisms without having to create a physical prototype. You can test your ideas in just two clicks to see how forces and movement react. Drawing the connections (hinges, springs) is intuitive and incredibly useful for understanding the kinematics before delving deeper into the design. **What do you dislike about Working Model?** The really unfortunate thing is that we're stuck in 2D. For serious projects, that quickly becomes limiting. The interface really looks like it belongs to an old program, and the graphics are lagging behind what's available today. Furthermore, the collision simulation often requires excessive fine-tuning of the settings, otherwise it just behaves erratically. **What problems is Working Model solving and how is that benefiting you?** Working with a model eliminates the need to build everything in real life to see if it holds up. It allows me to quickly confirm whether my mechanism idea is sound or if it will break. The major benefit is that we save a tremendous amount of time in the design process and avoid wasting money on prototypes that are doomed to fail. ### 2. Quick and intuitive simulation to test your mechanisms **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Environmental Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 24, 2025 **What do you like best about Working Model?** What I like most about Working Model is the ability to quickly test different versions of a mechanism by directly applying the laws of mechanics and immediately seeing the behavior in motion. **What do you dislike about Working Model?** What I like less is that the software remains limited to 2D, which is not ideal for truly 3D systems and sometimes forces you to simplify the models too much. **What problems is Working Model solving and how is that benefiting you?** Working Model helps me quickly validate the functioning of mechanisms before launching physical prototypes. ### 3. Practical Medium for Production or Prototyping **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Islam B. | Project Support Officer, Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 28, 2024 **What do you like best about Working Model?** This website can create detailed simulations of evolving systems. The interface of the platform is so simple that anyone can use it easily. It feels like an online showroom where I can actively test the efficacy of various designs without going through a process of physical manufacturing. I can actually see how the plans work in real time and quickly, which leads to better schemes in the end. **What do you dislike about Working Model?** Although it is well-suited in webbings, Working Model's performance may lag when it comes to intricate designs. This gets me frustrated when interpretation of cellular features is required in lab report. Also, the cost can be a deterrent of the advertisement for hobbyists or the casual users. **What problems is Working Model solving and how is that benefiting you?** I get clear on and try out diverse design principles by model construction and measurements as a mechanical engineer. It lets me detect the bugs on early stages, so hence my projects become not only faster even exceptional ones. It gives me the convenience of my time and money savings while avoiding troubles of future. ### 4. Easy Customizable Graph Plotting Software **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ann C. | Senior Financial Analyst, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 31, 2023 **What do you like best about Working Model?** I appreciate this software as it handles data files smoothly without any delays or data loss. The high end hardware configuration ensures a performance. **What do you dislike about Working Model?** Despite its usefulness in providing dependable calculations the software does have some limitations. As it requires expertise in Python and precision to fully utilize its capabilities. And while the 2D design version serves its purpose it is overshadowed by the reliable 3D design version. **What problems is Working Model solving and how is that benefiting you?** It brings benefits to our business by offering a tool that enables us to visualize and test our designs before actual manufacturing takes place. This has resulted in time. Cost savings while also ensuring better resource management improved productivity and enhanced product development. ### 5. Working Model an awesome tool for simulation **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sunny J. | Penetration tester, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 19, 2023 **What do you like best about Working Model?** The best part about this software is it's easy to use interface where we could design things hassle free. **What do you dislike about Working Model?** Nothing much to dislike about this software **What problems is Working Model solving and how is that benefiting you?** The major use of this software was to design the things in the simulation software where it was of great help to me. ### 6. Sigma PLOT- A review on experimental analysis. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Research | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 04, 2020 **What do you like best about Working Model?** I used Sigmaplot for a graphical study and analysis and I found it to be very easy and handy to plot by loading the data sets, the broad option for customization had made it very widely used graph plotting software. It helped a lot to understand the graphical results in a short period. The user interface was also simple and basic to use, without complexity. **What do you dislike about Working Model?** Well while working on large data files, I noticed it lag a bit also it sometimes miss plot certain data if working on big data files. Also, there is limited access to free users, and its cost is a bit high than required. **Recommendations to others considering Working Model:** Well if you are good in Python, you may not need to use sigma plot **What problems is Working Model solving and how is that benefiting you?** Well I was doing a research project on the study of Marine Sediments for the geological analysis. ### 7. Petrel Software and its importance in the Industry. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Oil & Energy | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 24, 2020 **What do you like best about Working Model?** Well working with PETREL and ROXAR has been a wonderful experience during my final year projects. Petrel was one of my favorites, because of its features that included well log data, seismic and reservoir analysis. Its strong modeling integration of petrophysics, seismic interpretation, geology, reservoir engineering, and geophysics had the ability to integrate all kinds of data types and make the good benefits of interpretation. I also like the very impressive visual feeling in 3D. **What do you dislike about Working Model?** Petrel crashes a lot, which makes data losing an additional problem. Apart from this, the hardware configuration is quite a high end for both softwares. Also, license issue is costly and not available to all, some limited feature must be open for students to learn. **Recommendations to others considering Working Model:** no, it's perfect **What problems is Working Model solving and how is that benefiting you?** well I had worked on my final year project using this two software in my college days ### 8. Working model is a best software for kinematics and related subjects. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Yaseen A. | None, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 06, 2020 **What do you like best about Working Model?** In working model software a detailed analysis can be carried out about kinematics. **What do you dislike about Working Model?** There are no such downsides of working model software. **Recommendations to others considering Working Model:** It is an easy and helpful software to use. **What problems is Working Model solving and how is that benefiting you?** Problems related to kinematics. ### 9. Excellent Analytical information to get the best outcome **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 26, 2020 **What do you like best about Working Model?** The capability to interact with any model's parts and graph the movement and the force on any element in my project under consideration **What do you dislike about Working Model?** Basic commands such as one for rope seem to be limited to "string through whole type" **Recommendations to others considering Working Model:** Be precise and right while using it **What problems is Working Model solving and how is that benefiting you?** Camshaft analysis of an IC engine The movement mapped with the graphical interpretation with other elements such as cam lobe, journal has been fabulous and easier for outlining other depictions ### 10. Product development manager **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Hardware | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 29, 2020 **What do you like best about Working Model?** Task assignment control. Time saving and effective communications. **What do you dislike about Working Model?** Function definition. Would like to see more flexibility on job definition. **What problems is Working Model solving and how is that benefiting you?** Product development control ### 11. An optimal tool for designing mechanisms. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Darwin Reynell N. | Project Leader, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 18, 2019 **What do you like best about Working Model?** You have in each union, trajectories, speeds, accelerations, forces, among others. It is very useful. I had contact with this software during my university course called "Dynamics of mechanisms and machinery". It is practical, easy to learn, you have many information in the configurations made, even if the number of links used is high. Time is a limiting factor in the design process, in that sense, working 2D model helps to dismute those times. It allows to be more effective in the conceptual design process. You do not need to create a physical prototype. **What do you dislike about Working Model?** The 2D Design Version, from the point of view of conceptual design it is very useful, since you have the calculations quickly and reliably. **Recommendations to others considering Working Model:** The 2D Design Version from the point of view of conceptual design it is very useful, since you have the calculations quickly and reliably. The 3D Design Versión is even more reliably. Obviously the 3D design exceeds the 2D design **What problems is Working Model solving and how is that benefiting you?** Design of a mechanism to change the speed in a variable chain transmission system. With this mechanism it was possible to determine the required positions to reach certain speeds in the transmission cones. It was very useful in determining the forces and thus obtaining the state of charges. It was part of my final project during my bachelor in Mechanical Engineering. ## Working Model Discussions - [What is Working Model used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-working-model-used-for) - [View Working Model pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/working-model/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-20+06%3A32%3A56+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=96a69c05-a7c7-409b-b3ac-97d1f3aa683b&secure%5Btoken%5D=c3af06f24d9ae91c78224eee50ae1cbcafaea78dd85dd642423905fa4f243fc2&format=llm_user) ## Working Model Features **Design** - 3D/solid modeling Tools - Drawing Tools - Editing Tools - Rendering tools **Tools** - Fluid analysis - Finite element analysis - Multibody dynamics **Work** - Discrete event modeling - Continuous event modeling - Mechanical event simulation - Manufacturing process simulation - Integrate **Environment** - Hardware support - Task - Manage Multiple Profiles - Command Clarity ## Top Working Model Alternatives - [MATLAB](https://www.g2.com/products/matlab/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (749 reviews) - [Onshape](https://www.g2.com/products/onshape/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (682 reviews) - [SOLIDWORKS](https://www.g2.com/products/solidworks/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (629 reviews)