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About SimScale is a cloud-based web application that plays a key part in simulation software for many kinds of industries. The platform allows the use of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Finite Element Analysis (FEA), and Thermal Simulation. It also offers 3D simulation, continuous modeling, and motion & dynamic modeling.	About Thermal Desktop includes all aspects of model creation. Built-in finite difference, finite element, and lumped capacitance objects can be combined in any configuration. Thermal-specific objects such as contact conductance, insulation, heat loads, and heaters can be added to model anything from automotive components to manned spacecraft. Thermal Desktop provides full parameterization using variables and arbitrarily complex expressions as input rather than hardwired numbers. These variables, called symbols, allow models to be rapidly manipulated with a few keystrokes, meaning updating or maintaining the model is easy, as is performing sensitivity studies and investigating what-if scenarios. This also provides access to SINDA/FLUINT’s optimization and reliability modules and automatic model correlation.
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Audience Engineering and design professionals .	Audience Thermal engineers looking for a platform that helps create models that range from small components to complete systems
Support Phone Support Supported 24/7 Live Support Not Supported Online Supported	Support Phone Support Supported 24/7 Live Support Not Supported Online Supported
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Reviews/Ratings Overall 5.0 / 5 ease 4.0 / 5 features 4.0 / 5 design 4.5 / 5 support 5.0 / 5 Read all reviews	Reviews/Ratings Overall 1.0 / 5 ease 1.0 / 5 features 1.0 / 5 design 1.0 / 5 support 1.0 / 5 Read all reviews
Pros & Cons from Real Users Pros The program provides us with computerized CAD modeling tools based on the specifications previously requested, to simulate the operation of the projects we have in just the development phase. It has several modeling options: 3D, motion, dynamic, among others. It is an excellent opportunity for companies that have ideas and projects in their primary states and want to test their safety, performance and future failures, since SimScale models your project in 3D scale and simulates operability and gives you risk reports and opportunities in its operation. SimScale offers a 3D scale project simulation and infrastructure modeling service in a computerized way using basic knowledge of web aided engineering. We can use it if we work in the fields of engineering, architecture and construction and the program is responsible for digital testing of our projects that are under development. Cons SimScale does not allow a direct manipulation in the simulations of the projects provided by the companies, limiting us the power to modify or control the testing process. It also does not offer a version for mobile devices causing its usability to become frustrating when we ask for it in practice. This program has the limitation of language, since the platform is only in English. This generates conflict with its clients since they have more than 100,000 of them and are segmented around the world. Likewise, it does not offer 2D modeling for projects of smaller scale or importance or budget.	Pros & Cons from Real Users Pros Nothing positive as everything is negative compared to what I used before. Cons Sorry, but Siemens Simcenter Thermal is by far a superior thermal analysis software. One can hope ANSYS can improve the thermal desktop products within Mechanical Desktop, but I highly doubt it. At our company we were forced to use Thermal Desktop after using NX Thermal for a couple years. Everything in NX is streamlined. You defeature in NX, go to the pre/post where you enter into NX Thermal, create an idealized part(basically a copy of te CAD), and you suppres curves/edges to mesh and then apply material properties, create advection network for the fem file. Also if there are mesh issues you can manually create elements if need be. Then you progress to the sim file where you apply contacts, bc's, map CFD results and setup the model to run. In Thermal Desktop we are forced to use ANSYS Spaceclaim to defeature and then link to Thermal Desktop to mesh through a "blackbox" where you can only control the mesh by apply mesh sizing. A total nightmare if the meshing fails. Also the graphics rendering is absolutely horrible for complex 3-D meshes. Using the space ball to rotate and translate mesh is excruciatingly slow. Opened up a fairly large mesh and just turning on/off layers took a couple hours.
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Company Information SimScale Founded: 2012 Germany simscale.com/_en/	Company Information C&R Technologies Founded: 1992 United States www.crtech.com/products/thermal-desktop
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Categories CFD Supported Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE) Supported Finite Element Analysis (FEA) Supported Industrial Design Supported Simulation Supported Thermal Analysis Supported Wind Simulation Supported	Categories Finite Element Analysis (FEA) Supported Thermal Analysis Supported
Show More Features Simulation Features 1D Simulation Not Supported 3D Modeling Supported 3D Simulation Supported Agent-Based Modeling Supported Continuous Modeling Supported Design Analysis Supported Direct Manipulation Not Supported Discrete Event Modeling Not Supported Dynamic Modeling Supported Graphical Modeling Not Supported Industry Specific Database Supported Monte Carlo Simulation Not Supported Motion Modeling Supported Presentation Tools Supported Stochastic Modeling Not Supported Turbulence Modeling Supported
Integrations FloCAD Not Supported RadCAD Not Supported SINDA/FLUINT Not Supported Shift Supported View All 1 Integration	Integrations FloCAD Supported RadCAD Supported SINDA/FLUINT Supported Shift Not Supported View All 3 Integrations
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