Best Simulation & CAE Software

Products Buyer's Guide
8.2
Inventor Nastran
★★★★★

Inventor Nastran

Inventor Nastran is a software for engineering simulation of stress, dynamics, and heat transfer in structures.

Opensource CAE - User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering

Ease of use
7.1
Support
8.3
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7.0
9.6
ModelCenter
★★★★★

ModelCenter

ModelCenter is a framework for integration of third-party modeling and simulation tools/scripts, workflow automation, and multidisciplinary design analysis and optimization from Phoenix Integration.

Incredible tool for integrated analysis - User in Defense & Space

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9.6
VisSim
★★★★★

VisSim

VisSim is a system simulation and optional C-code generation of electrical, process, control, bio-medical, mechanical and UML State chart systems.

Great technology - User in Civil Engineering

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9.6
Tecnomatix
★★★★★

Tecnomatix

Plant Simulation is a plant, line and process simulation and optimization software.

Throughput simulation with plant simulation - Onkar B.

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8.6
Elmer
★★★★★

Elmer

Elmer is an open-source multiphysical simulation software for Windows/Mac/Linux.

Thermal Visualizing with the FEA solver - Senthil K.

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8.0
Step
★★★★★

Step

Step is an open-source two-dimensional physics simulation engine (KDE).

So easy to use! - User in Education Management

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7.6
Simulations Plus
★★★★★

Simulations Plus

Simulations Plus is a modeling and simulation software for pharmaceutical research.

powerful product needs improvement - User in Medical Devices

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7.6
Altair Model-Based Development Suite
★★★★★

Altair Model-Based Development Suite

Easily simulate mechanical product aspects with electrical aspects (in 0D, 1D, and 3D) and leverage automatic code-generation for embedded systems - in harmony with Altair's broad and deep portfolio of CAE simulation products and IoT solutions.

Altair model based for electromagnetic simulation of sensors - Oscar B.

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10.0
Electra E7
★★★★★

Electra E7

To maximize productivity, we designed an Electrical CAD software that requires minimal typing. Being engineers ourselves, we wanted to produce electrical designs faster and safer, without manual typing errors.

Electra Review. - Daniel G.

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Languages supported: English

10.0
Ansys Motor-CAD
★★★★★

Ansys Motor-CAD

Ansys Motor-CAD is a dedicated electric machine design tool for fast multiphysics simulation of motor designs across the full torque-speed operating range. Motor-CAD enables design engineers to evaluate motor topologies and concepts, produce designs that are optimized for performance, efficiency, size, cost, weight, as well as other specifications, and automates the analysis process with built-in electromagnetic, thermal and mechanical ...

Most user-friendly commercial electric machine design software. - Branko B.

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Languages supported: English

10.0
SEE Electrical
★★★★★

SEE Electrical

SEE Electrical offers features and commands designed specifically for electrical engineering

Un trГЁs bon logiciel de dessin de schГ©mas - Industry Analyst / Tech Writer in Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing

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Languages supported: Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, French, Croatian, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Turkish, Chinese (Simplified)

10.0
Simcenter HEEDS
★★★★★

Simcenter HEEDS

HEEDS automates and accelerates the engineering design space exploration process. Whether you need to improve performance of a simple component or a complex multidisciplinary system, HEEDS is flexible enough to find the design configurations that best satisfy your requirements.

A great software to learn the analysis rather than ANSYS - User in Design

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8.8
ETAP
★★★★★

ETAP

ETAP is an enterprise solution for design, simulation, operation, control, optimization, and automation of generation, transmission, distribution, and industrial power systems that offers a suite of integrated electrical engineering software solutions including arc flash, load flow, short circuit, transient stability, relay coordination, cable ampacity, optimal power flow, and more.

Etap suits for all user than other software in market electrical calculation done easily with etap. - Engr. ASHIF I.

Ease of use
8.7
Support
8.7
Ease of Setup
8.0

Languages supported: English, French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Chinese (Simplified)

9.2
CarSim
★★★★★

CarSim

CarSim delivers the most accurate, detailed, and efficient methods for simulating the performance of passenger vehicles and light-duty trucks.

CarSim to evaluate performance of the World's fastest electric vehicle - Venturi Buckeye Bullet 3 - Matilde D.

Ease of use
7.9
Support
9.4
Ease of Setup
0.0
9.2
Ansys CFX
★★★★★

Ansys CFX

ANSYS CFX is a high-performance computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software tool that delivers reliable and accurate solutions quickly and robustly across a wide range of CFD and multi-physics applications. CFX is recognized for its outstanding accuracy, robustness and speed with rotating machinery such as pumps, fans, compressors, and gas and hydraulic turbines.

Easier to work than Ansys Fluent - Lucas M.

Ease of use
7.9
Support
9.6
Ease of Setup
0.0
8.4
Autodesk CFD
★★★★★

Autodesk CFD

AutodeskВ® CFD software provides computational fluid dynamics and thermal simulation tools to help you predict product performance, optimize designs, and validate product behavior before manufacturing.

Autodesk CFD - simple interface and integrates with other software well - Tom E.

Ease of use
8.0
Support
8.3
Ease of Setup
0.0
8.2
Solid Edge
★★★★★

Solid Edge

Complete hybrid 2D/3D CAD system that uses synchronous technology for accelerated design, faster change, and improved imported reuse.

Senior mechanical engineer - Mohamed R.

Ease of use
8.2
Support
8.0
Ease of Setup
0.0

Languages supported: Czech, German, English, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional)

9.0
Stateflow
★★★★★

Stateflow

Model and simulate decision logic using state machines and flow charts

We can work on state machines,algorithms ,flow charts effectively and seamlessly - Tanay S.

Ease of use
8.8
Support
9.0
Ease of Setup
0.0
8.6
Maple
★★★★★

Maple

Maple is a general-purpose computer algebra system developed and sold commercially by Waterloo Maple Inc.

Excellent intelligent tool with very precise use. - david s.

Ease of use
7.8
Support
8.6
Ease of Setup
5.5
9.0
Ansys Sherlock
★★★★★

Ansys Sherlock

Ansys Sherlock is the only Reliability Physics / Physics of Failure (PoF) based electronics design reliability analysis tool that streamlines new product development. Sherlock automatically translates ECAD and MCAE data into 3D finite element models, automates thermal derating and democratizes the thermal and mechanical analysis of electronics meaning analysis is done in hours, not weeks. Plus, Sherlock reduces FEA modeling time and provides ...

Ansys Sherlock is quite simply the best tool for reliability assessment of power converters! - User in Renewables & Environment

Ease of use
7.3
Support
0.0
Ease of Setup
0.0

Languages supported: German, English, French, Japanese, Korean

8.6
Intel VTune Amplifier
★★★★★

Intel VTune Amplifier

VTune Amplifier collects key profiling data and presents it with a powerful interface that simplifies its analysis and interpretation.

Best tool for profiling and performance analysis. - User in Oil & Energy

Ease of use
8.0
Support
8.7
Ease of Setup
0.0
8.6
SIMULIA
★★★★★

SIMULIA

FEA. SRAC Cosmos acquired years ago by SolidWorks.

Great robust solution for running FEA - Josef O.

Ease of use
7.2
Support
8.5
Ease of Setup
7.0
9.0
Jmol
★★★★★

Jmol

Jmol is a free, open source molecule viewer for students, educators, and researchers in chemistry, biochemistry, physics, and materials science. It is cross-platform, running on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux/Unix systems.

A 3D modelled computer software for better viewing at structures. - Katy B.

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9.0
DWSIM
★★★★★

DWSIM

DWSIM is an open-source CAPE-OPEN compliant chemical process simulator.

It is the best open source chemical process simulator - Bapti Niloy B.

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9.0
SmartPlant Instrumentation
★★★★★

SmartPlant Instrumentation

SmartPlant Instrumentation offers a single engineering environment to create and manage instrumentation data, as well as create and manage change consistently across required deliverables

Smartplant instrumentation software - User in Food Production

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9.0
Open Source Physics
★★★★★

Open Source Physics

Open Source Physics is an open-source Java software project for teaching and studying physics.

A very complete library of simulations of different topics and areas - JesГєs F.

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9.0
VASP Source Code
★★★★★

VASP Source Code

The Vienna Ab initio simulation package(VASP) is a main electronic structure program for solids, surfaces, and interfaces. MadeA-VASP incorporates a through graphical interface to set up, run and analyze VASP calculations.

VASP for computational Catalysis - Vaidish S.

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9.0
Tortuga
★★★★★

Tortuga

Tortuga is an open-source software framework for discrete-event simulation in Java.

Tortuga is awesome - Administrator in Airlines/Aviation

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