Ansys SpaceClaim: The Best Featuring and Defeaturing Experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
In my job role, I'm primarily designing mechanical structures which in turn requires accurate FEA results in order to validate the design. By using Ansys SpaceClaim, I'm easily able to do the model changes required in the initial complex CAD model in order to simplify the geometry and get the results in lesser time. It also greatly helps in splitting and merging surfaces which in turns helps in defining accurate connection, joints and different loads.
Pros
- It efficiently divide/split the surface into multiple fragments as per the user's requirements which helps in easy application of loads and boundary conditions.
- It helps in reducing the model complexity with it's efficient defeaturing options in order to reduce the model complexity.
- It also helps in making quick model changes as per the simulation results in order to improve the design and thus helps in quick FEA of the improvised design.
Cons
- With time, Ansys SpaceClaim has evolved so much in its functionality and Ansys has added so many useful and complex features into it, but most of the team member are not aware about those features.
- For the newly added features and improvement in legacy features, Ansys can try adding training videos to better aware the engineers about their evolving features.
- Apart from that, I don't find anything disadvantageous about SpaceClaim.
Likelihood to Recommend
I will highly recommend Ansys SpaceClaim, or in fact any Ansys to my colleague because of its wide spread acceptability around the globe and around the different industries. Thus, the results provided by Ansys simulation tools, given the proper boundary conditions are properly simulated, are highly reliable. Also, learning to utilize Ansys tools in the engineering design activities also helps in career advancements.
