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[mvyvey]

Dear Support Team, Dear Users,

 

Aiming at empowering engineers and designers, two pieces of software are currently  mainstream, Ansys Discovery Live and Altair SimSolid.

Has there any benchmarking been performed to give a clear status of pros and cons for each of these products ? My field of interest is mechanical design.

From what I have found out so far, Altair SimSolid seems to be more oriented towards mechanical design than Ansys DL : Simsolid features more loadings, contact conditions, assembly elements, non-linear analyses,... .

On the other hand, Ansys DL allows a direct evaluation of a geometry alteration.

Am I right in thinking that Ansys DL is dedicated to "rough" mechanical pre-design while Altair Simsolid provides a thinner approach at the cost of a slightly slower process ?

 

Looking forward to reading your feedback,

[Brian Bueno]

Mo_Vy

Your assessment is generally accurate.  Discovery Live is a tool intended for rapid exploration of conceptual designs.  It allows you to make changes on the fly and see the results much faster than a "traditional" simulation solver.  Discovery Live is not intended for design validation.

You can find information on verification and benchmarking compared to other ANSYS solvers here: Discovery Verification and Benchmark Cases