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[Overview](https://www.softwareadvice.com/simulation/ansys-spaceclaim-profile/) Reviews [Alternatives](https://www.softwareadvice.com/simulation/ansys-spaceclaim-profile/alternatives/) # Ansys SpaceClaim User Reviews ## Reviews summary - Overall rating: 4.6/5 - Total reviews: 158 ### Secondary ratings - Ease of use: 4.0/5 - Customer support: 4.2/5 - Value for money: 4.2/5 - Functionality: 4.6/5 ### Rating distribution - 5 stars: 96 reviews (61%) - 4 stars: 58 reviews (37%) - 3 stars: 3 reviews (2%) - 2 stars: 1 reviews (1%) - 1 star: 0 reviews (0%) ### Most mentioned pros - It's just so easy and so powerful that I really miss it whenever I have to sketch something quick and I can only use a standard CAD sofware. - The wide variety of tools available helps in creating and removing features and also for splitting and joining two surfaces. - Extremely easy to use. ### Most mentioned cons - Also have problem with large object processing, when program start lags. - Additionally, some users may find that the software lacks certain advanced features. - I believe that the software could be improved. When it comes to loading time, it is extremely inconvenient; whenever you want to open a model, you must wait a significant amount of time for it to open. ## Ansys SpaceClaim customer reviews Showing reviews 1-25 of 158 (page 1). ### the best FEA software on the market - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Oil & Energy - Company size: 10000+ employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: April 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros powerful - no competitor can compete with this environment. It's best when it comes to user friendly design, performing actual calculation on server and when doing postprocessing. #### Cons definitely price tag is rather high. it probably is not that accessible for small business because of that. --- ### ANSYS and Geometry Optimization - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Sajed S. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Higher Education - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: November 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I have used ANSYS and its geometry optimization tool. I have been involved in developing software packages which uses ANSYS as the solver. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I liked the feature that ANSYS has added to the Workbench for geometry optimization. #### Cons I belive the modeling part of ANSYS can be improved to be more user friendly, so that it would be much easier to use the powerfull tools that ANSYS provides. --- ### This is a wonderful suite to perform precise simulation and get accurate results with multiple cores - Overall rating: 3/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: July 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros 1.) Its topology optimization in a latest update provides accurate results against shape optimization in old versions. 2.) This saves time when running multiple computes to get your desired mesh. #### Cons 1.) It requires a wealth of knowledge and experience including theoretical & practical. 2.) It costs high for learners and does not provide access to full set of tools. --- ### ANSYS Review - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Sumit R. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Aviation & Aerospace - Company size: 10000+ employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: July 2019 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered This software is a very helpful software for my daily job. I use ANSYS structural for my FEA analysis. This software provides me a very good result with few errors. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros This software has one of the best hyper-elastic material analysis. ANSYS Structural provides the best FEA result. Curve fitting option is best in this software. #### Cons Transition between tetra and hexa mesh can be difficult. --- ### ANSYS for analysis and simulation - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Hiran T. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Oil & Energy - Company size: 10000+ employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: December 2020 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered For simulation and analysis this is the best CAD software one can go for. The Latest version is an add-on with more useful feature to ANYSYS spaceclaim enables the user to get the job done. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros The user can constraint the sketches with spaceclaim design options. New block recording feature allow the user to easily edit the CAD models which are imported from other CAD platform. Analysis is best in this software with detailed stress definition. Simulation of operation is also done. #### Cons Use interface need to improved. Customer support needed with more multi domain representative. Software is bulk for lower configured workstations. --- ### Makes engineering decissons easier... - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Bora D. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Automotive - Company size: 501-1000 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: June 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Customer support: 2/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros Ansys WB is quite complex tool with multiple modules. You can make any of the engineering calculations (simulations) here. It works with finite element method. It has too many modules as I only know solid and fluid modules I use them on my both academical studies and design business. #### Cons It is really complex, deep as ocean! Especially if you are working on the remote areas of engineering, it could be a night mare. Customer support knows basics that is OK however they can not always support you on your deep and complex problems. Also on Fluent module is not really capable for "mass transfer". --- ### Best engineering analysis and simulation software - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Prathmesh R. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Mechanical or Industrial Engineering - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: January 2019 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Overall it's great software. Once you get your hands on it, you get your problems solved in no time. I'm currently using this software for my BE project in mechanical engineering. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I loved Meshing tool and graphics shown in modelling. Software has different analysis options like structural,vibration,thermal,fluid analysis and many more. I have used this software for structural and thermal analysis mainly. Great use in Finite Element Analysis. It saves time of experimentation. #### Cons The hard part is to learn all about this software and its features. It's not easy to use and it's bit of expensive software. --- ### 3D Modeling and Engineering Design Management Tool. - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Valarie V. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Construction - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: October 2021 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Engineering system and very excellent product that helps on different things on Engineering project and design simulation. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Ansys SpaceClaim is a flexible and easy Engineering tool which offers various designing capabilities and easy report generation for the different project operations. #### Cons Dislike about the solution i had none through my whole experience with Ansys SpaceClaim and its capabilities. --- ### Great CAD, greater Simulation Software - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Eduardo R. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Mechanical or Industrial Engineering - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 6 months - Reviewed: November 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Compared with other competitors, Ansys stands out and delivers, this 2D and 3D CAD software is reliable and demands a small amount of time to understand and manipulate with ease all its functionalities, you can create and simulate with quality assured if you input the correct parameters. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros SpaceClaim is great for CAD, tutorials within the software allow for fast training, if you have used other CAD software you will easily be able to manipulate SpaceClaim. A great variety of functionalities and controls are available for a fast design. A great pro is the ease of access to mechanically simulate your designs, Ansys has a more powerful simulation feature than other competitors. Boundary conditions and forces are easy to insert. In general, Ansys SpaceClaim is powerful, easy to use, and reliable. #### Cons Ansys Spaceclaim demands a considerable amount of computational processing power, check computer requirements before purchasing. Importing geometries from other CAD software can sometimes create problems. --- ### This can be a frustrating software to use, but has lots of features. - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Joseph A. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: June 2018 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Can be used to solve so many different types of mechanical and structural problems. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 2/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros This software has so many capabilities. It can be used to simulate simple beam bending problems, as well as much more complex problems like bridges and cyclic loading problems. If you get good with the command bar, you can just edit code, and read from the file to run through problems quickly. The help menu is a life-saver. #### Cons Not everything is intuitive, and with no "undo" button, it can be frustrating. Getting used to the commands takes a little time. Navigating through the drop-down lists takes lots of time. --- ### My. Best software for electrical and electronics designs. - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Adedayo F. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Mechanical or Industrial Engineering - Company size: 501-1000 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 12 months - Reviewed: May 2023 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I make use of Ansys design software for electrical and electronics circuit modelling and designs. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros All features incorporated into Ansys spaceclaim suite me and proved to be useful to me. #### Cons I don't have any regrets or any hassle using Ansys spaceclaim software for my designs. --- ### Let the Computational begins - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Harshil K. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Automotive - Company size: 10000+ employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: December 2020 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Mind blowing, superb, Over the expectations and knowledgeable #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I love to describe this software because I have used it a lot in my masters studies. In my subject CFD I.e. computational fluid dynamics I have used this software to define a structure and also analyze the flow through it. Space Spaceclaim is very much user Friendly and easy to understood. I took only a week or so to have a good command over Spaceclaim. The different geometries can be easily define and can be specified with given boundary conditions in spaceclaim. The analysis and result section of ansys is the most interesting part as the actual fluid data were analyzed as per the Spaceclaim model. I have created a gear pump in Spaceclaim and also analyze it in detail with a working animation. This all can be possible via ansys. ANSYS can be defined as an Bunch of technologies and predefined technological softwares. For students like me 1 year of free ansys is available on the ansys official website. Every type of simulations were possible with ansys. #### Cons It requires a lot of computation and the time of computation is pretty long as in my case of Analysis of a gear pump, I have to wait for some 15 minutes when there is an initialization of the structure. I know that complex parts are time consuming due to the meshing which is pretty dense. But a faster database is an requirement for the ansys users. --- ### Great 3D CAD - especially for early stages of mechanical development - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Jacob N. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Mechanical or Industrial Engineering - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: February 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros Simplicity and sheet metal functionality. The best CAD tool for simple 3D print designs and modifications of existing STL files. #### Cons Assemblies are not easy to handle. A very light form of PDM would be good. --- ### Fantastic software for engineering simulations - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Automotive - Company size: 10000+ employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: May 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I have used ANSY's for static & dynamic analysis. Tried a lot learn in the beginning correct but then it's now easy to process any analysis at work. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Any type of analysis can be done for engineering simulations. It helped a lot during college projects and now continues at work. Integration with different modeling programs improved a lot. #### Cons It's not an easy software so takes sometime to get experienced. But then simulations, CAE works get really easy after learning phase. --- ### Simulation and designing on Ansys space claim - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Ibrahim M. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Airlines/ Aviation - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: November 2021 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Really nice .. I could do my work smoothly so now I’m recommending it to others by #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros It’s very friendly use and it’s really smooth beside that it doesn’t require high computation power as as advance software #### Cons The Ansys meshing quality is not 100% I still achieve good results but not very accurate but this could be solved by trying other meshing tools inside Ansys --- ### Great interface and mathematical tools - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Mechanical or Industrial Engineering - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: July 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. CFD simulationos for various purposes #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros The math tools available in the software which make it viabole for a huge range of problems. We'rw an exlcusive ansys partner and work very closely with them on multiple tasks #### Cons Sometimes takes time to solve and converge and ansys meshing isn't very good comapred to the solver --- ### Nice for CAD generation - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Legal Services - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: January 2023 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Ansys SpaceClaim is a nice CAD tool and is continuously updated and improved. I recommend it specially if you are using other Ansys applications. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Ansys SpaceClaim is quite a good tool for generating CAD files. It supports 2D and 3D designs and offer a wide range of geometry editing tools. One of the most helpful feature is that SpaceClaim was designed to be easily integrated into the other applications developed by Ansys. #### Cons The only downside of using Ansys SpaceClaim is that it is no a feature-based CAD tool. This becomes an issue if you're used to such applications. Other than that, there is nothing else I don't really dislike. --- ### Ansys model the world - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Civil Engineering - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: January 2019 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered I overall I’m very satisfied with this software and would definitely use it. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 2/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Ability to solve problems of any kind of difficulty. I use it for heating system simulation and the plots it produces are perfect. Also such simulation can partially replace real experiments. #### Cons Very complicated and not enough practical and cleanly explained tutorials --- ### Best engineering Tool for 3D design - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Research - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: February 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. great experience till now #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 2/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I like the most part of the software because from ansys its get easier to do analysis and better simulation. #### Cons only the customer support is not up to the point. --- ### Great support - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Oil & Energy - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: June 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros After working with this vendor for years I can say we have had the best support from them. Most requests are handled without issue and always willing to work with us. #### Cons Learning curve is very steep and even with documentation some of the features need support assistance. I also find it difficult to support each release separately for every user. In most cases it is easier to skip the initial and dot 2 release. --- ### Reliable CFD Analysis Tool For Vehicle Body Design - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Automotive - Company size: 10000+ employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: May 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. We are using Fluent to create a flow model of vehicle dynamic in order to obtain related air resistance and improve our vehicle body design. It's quite useful and reliable, general results are %98 identical with wind tunnel results which are measured via tools. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Reliable data for CFD analysis in pre-test phase. #### Cons It requires very high computer specification for seamless experience. --- ### Ansys SpaceClaim 2023 _ User Review - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Automotive - Company size: 501-1000 employees - Product usage: Used monthly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: February 2023 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros This CAD module is integrated with different Ansys Simulation modules, making it easy to process the geometry for pre-processing steps. This integration also requires less time to edit and reflect the CAD models into simulation modules.Software developers are coming up with many improvements (for mechanical engineers' ease of work) in every edition. #### Cons This software needs little development towards a user-friendly interface. --- ### Great for simulation and analysis - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Consumer Goods - Company size: 501-1000 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: December 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros This gives you the opportunity to program and simulate complex problems. It reduces expensive experimental setup and gives you the ability to outline projects. #### Cons Tough to learn and expertise. User interface is not very friendly for initial learning. --- ### Spaceclaim Review - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: osman s. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Mechanical or Industrial Engineering - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: February 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros Operations such as designing, cleaning the geometry and subtracting the flow volume are very easy with spaceclaim. #### Cons It gives a lot of surface defects when cleaning complex models. Also some splitting processes could be easy. --- ### Seamless experience - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Tariq A. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Mechanical or Industrial Engineering - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: February 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Great. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros It was a huge step forward from Design modeller. user interface is better though it can undergo changes. #### Cons Probably more features like screw wizard would be of use. ## More reviews [Next reviews](https://www.softwareadvice.com/simulation/ansys-spaceclaim-profile/reviews/?page=2) --- Ansys SpaceClaim Reviews, Pros and Cons - 2026 Software Advice