{"id":255568,"date":"2020-01-10T11:08:36","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T11:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/ansys-discovery-live-vs-altair-simsolid-mechanical-design\/"},"modified":"2020-01-10T11:08:36","modified_gmt":"2020-01-10T11:08:36","slug":"ansys-discovery-live-vs-altair-simsolid-mechanical-design","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/ansys-discovery-live-vs-altair-simsolid-mechanical-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Ansys Discovery Live vs Altair SimSolid : mechanical design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Dear Support Team, Dear Users, <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p> Aiming at empowering engineers and designers, two pieces of software are currently&nbsp;&nbsp;mainstream, Ansys Discovery Live and Altair SimSolid. <\/p>\n<p> 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. <\/p>\n<p> 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,&#8230; . <\/p>\n<p> On the other hand, Ansys DL allows a direct evaluation of a geometry alteration. <\/p>\n<p> Am I right in thinking that Ansys DL is dedicated to &#8220;rough&#8221; mechanical pre-design while Altair Simsolid provides a thinner approach at the cost of a slightly slower process&nbsp;? <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p> Looking forward to reading your feedback, <\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-255568","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry","topic-tag-discovery-live-2","topic-tag-structures"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_subscription":["278655"],"_bbp_likes_count":["0"],"_btv_view_count":["2395"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_status":["publish"],"_bbp_topic_id":["255568"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27789"],"_bbp_engagement":["71","278655"],"_bbp_voice_count":["2"],"_bbp_reply_count":["1"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["266245"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["266245"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2020-01-10 20:00:57"]},"test":"mvyveyschreder-com"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/255568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/255568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}