I like that Ansys Mechanical offers an advanced interface, as well as a basic interface. The advanced interface allows experts to perform finite element simulations using code, which works excellently well. Additionally, the Ansys Mechanical Workbench interface offers a visual environment that is very useful for students and practicing engineers for mechanical design and analysis, allowing both a visual approach and the use of advanced programming in APDL. I also appreciate its good tutorials and documentation, which make it easy to get started for both beginners and advanced users with experience in finite element analysis. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What doesn't work so well is its price, which is somewhat high for industries and even for academia. Ansys Mechanical is limited by the size of the problem when its license is a student version, it only solves problems limited in size by the number of nodes or finite elements (approximately 100,000), which is very basic and useful in that case only for simple problems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.