What are some general thoughts about usability, accuracy of
results, and performance between the CATIA V5 FEA modules as
compared to Ansys ?
Thanks
Thanks
Greg Albrechtsen
RE: CATIA V5 vs Ansys
June 22, 2010 07:51 PM
(in response to Mitch Everly)
Items you may want to consider are: How important is CAD to
analysis bi-directional associativity; How many iterations do you
normally go through until final design; Is it important to not
learn a new GUI; Is analysis an occasional or contoinuous task
(i.e. how user friendly and memorable is the GUI).
Keep in mind GPS is linear and for linear anlaysis it's as acurate an anything else. If you need to solve nonlinear problems, you'll also need the nonlinear license. The nonlinear solver uses Abaqus technology which is THE standard for nonlinear results. If you then will be scaling to very large analysis, the SIMULIA suite scales extremely well to mulitple CPU's and/or compute clusters.
Keep in mind GPS is linear and for linear anlaysis it's as acurate an anything else. If you need to solve nonlinear problems, you'll also need the nonlinear license. The nonlinear solver uses Abaqus technology which is THE standard for nonlinear results. If you then will be scaling to very large analysis, the SIMULIA suite scales extremely well to mulitple CPU's and/or compute clusters.
Paul Van Der Zande
RE: CATIA V5 vs Ansys
October 2, 2010 09:02 PM
(in response to Mitch Everly)
If you need e.g. to analyse structural stress and/or deformations
of a large surface model (using 2D shell mesh) , e.g. like a hull
structure of a ship. Then Catia V5 is extremely fast and efficient.
Linear analysis. Much more productive than ANSYS. Not even speaking
about recycles (=geometry change, automatically remesh, etc). Very
large models (100.000 elements can be handled).
Paul
www.aitac.nl
Paul
www.aitac.nl