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What is SIMULIA?

SIMULIA from Dassault Systemes is a simulation application for 3d objects.

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SIMULIA from Dassault Systemes is a simulation application for 3d objects.

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Product Demos

SIMULIA XFlow 2017x Introduction Webinar & Demo FSI XFLOW and Abaqus

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SIMULIA Abaqus CAE Demo Hinge analysis

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Product Details

What is SIMULIA?

SIMULIA from Dassault Systemes is a simulation application for 3d objects.


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SIMULIA's CST Studio Suite offers electromagnetic simulations coupled with multiphysics analysis, eliminating the need to switch between different software. Users have praised this time-saving feature, streamlining their workflow and focus. The software is utilized for testing physical problems like heat transfer, mechanical deformation, and fluid mechanics, providing valuable insights. SolidWorks Simulation, through FEA, prevents design issues, reduces waste, and speeds up product development by instilling confidence before physical prototypes are built. It is beneficial for basic static analysis in consumer product structural design, ensuring components withstand stress. The software validates geometries, conducts research projects, evaluates performance, and supports informed decision-making. Solidworks Simulation saves time and money by eliminating physical testing in certain cases, allowing confident regulatory approval submissions. It is widely employed in diverse industries like medical devices, LED illumination systems, electronics, and freelance product development for conceptual design evaluation and improvements across structures and products.

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Guido Quesada | TrustRadius Reviewer
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I work as a freelance product development engineer. Keeping that in mind, yes it is across the whole organization, which is only me. I use it mainly to evaluate conceptual design proposals for pipe joints and restraints. Other uses involve a variety of structures or products such as medical devices, tanks, floats and machines, sometimes just for analysis and sometimes to introduce design improvements.
  • Create and modify designs from within the CAE environment. Although it has very basic capabilities, it is quite capable of generating 2D and 3D parametric designs. I have even generated some "fancy" designs which ended up being a challenge for draftsmen in specialized solid modeling CAD. I also like the fact that being somewhat limited, it forces you to stick to simple and effective design.
  • Addressing structural instabilities such as snap-through or buckling. This was such a challenge when I started using Abaqus, I had to take a course on "achieving convergence". Coming from there, I can see how SIMULIA has become increasingly able to give you the numerical tools or tricks you need to achieve convergence consistently. In the past I often feared running into different convergence issues as I moved across different produce sizes, leading to changes in the analysis approach, which would make it more difficult to compare them. I just went through a 12-size family in 5 dimensional scenarios each, without a single issue after ensuring convergence with the first couple of sizes.
  • Beautiful pictures. The post-processing of results enables me to generate highly illustrative, fairly easy to understand and elegant presentations, by controlling transparency and results shown independently on different groups, which I can select by material, location, etc.
  • Exporting sketches. For example, you can import dxf for sketches, but you can't export dxf. This is a major drawback for me, because I often communicate with customers through dwg or dxf sketches. If I can't export dxf, my sketches in CAE are "dead". I have to redo them in the dwg sketch. It is so inconvenient, I often end up making the sketches in DraftSight, so I can export them to CAE but I still have the originals in dwg format.
  • CAE doesn't remember element type assignment by sets. Sometimes when I reconfigure or modify a design, I regenerate sets and surfaces, and this in turn updates material assignments, interactions and loads almost automatically. This doesn't happen with element types, so I often end up submitting a job with the wrong element types.
  • Mesh regeneration and re-mapping in 2D within the job. I need this a lot to model axisymmetric assemblies with sharp indentation the destroys the original mesh. I had it in MSC/MARC and it worked great. Abaqus has it only for 3D. I have tried alternatives like lagrangian/eulerian and eulerian domains but it's still more complicated.
It appears to be evolving more towards large users with the 3D EXPERIENCE, while becoming less focused on small users like me, becoming more expensive and limiting the number of cores while most PC's now can easily run 8 cores.

Of course it is great for non-linear and highly non-linear scenarios, and especially good at combing a huge variety of element types.

I guess it is not best suited for linear analysis due to its high price, but even in this case you have to put in the balance the ability to make the best choice of finite elements and being so straightforward about actually using them.
  • I don't even bother doing an ROI. Without SIMULIA I would be pretty much out of business. Except for the fact that I could still have an alternative with MSC/MARC.
  • Price is becoming a more difficult hurdle for small users. It appears I have survived because there was a 50% discount on my small 6-token package. Without this special price I would have to close my business. I'm currently exploring alternatives.
  • A more flexible scheme enabling to add tokens over short periods of time or paying per use could be an interesting possibility.
MARC can do the job from an FEA point of view. It even appears better at a couple of things such as 2D remeshing and surviving with highly distorted meshes. So I regard it as a very competitive alternative. I prefer SIMULIA because the GUI is so much better, especially the ability to create actual parametric designs in CAE.

ANSYS doesn't cut it for me. I tried it for 1 month and I would see how much I would struggle with convergence in large deformation and large displacement situations with hyperelastic materials with which I have to deal all the time. Also the GUI is not as well built an integrated as in SIMULIA.
Extremely well organized and friendly, reflecting the latest approaches in solid modeling and adding the FEA part so seamlessly for the user. It's a joy to use.

I'm aware some people would complain about the meshing capabilities and thus prefer using HYPERMESH. Fortunately not my case. I did wish I had HYPERMESH a couple of times, but for most of my projects CAE meshing is fine.
I keep getting the feeling that it is drifting away from small users.

I don't feel so comfortable with the SWYM community approach. I felt much better when you could just email or call HKS and you would feel like you were talking to a real expert who understood your situation.

When I was reassigned to reseller in Argentina, which is like the other side of the world for me, I appreciated the cultural closeness, but I had to say goodbye to the level of support I had from HKS and learned to "support myself."
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