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I guess what bothers me about the merger is, Cosmos is also owned by Dassault through Solidworks. Is Dassault going to intergrate Cosmos with Abaqus in Simulia? Most of the people I have talked to about Mechanica says when it was Rasna it was great until PTC bought it. Since PTC was more...

FYI if you haven't heard. Mark

gurmeet2003, I have used ANSYS and now use ABAQUS. First of all, ABAQUS is a very powerfull program. The problem with that is, in my opinion, ABAQUS is not as user friendly as what you are use to from ANSYS. The ABAQUS people, I think tend to forget not everyone running FEA is a Phd. The...

Like everything in engineering, there is always a trade off. With Pro/Mechanica a low number of elements doesn't always mean short solution times. The higher the p-order the more time and memory it takes to solve. Chris, if the model is easy to send out why don't you send the model to an FEA...

Thanks for the excellent feedback. We got a demo copy of SWX today. Will are getting a SE demo copy Friday. Interesting how I have used Pro/E for 6+ years and after the demos I can see why they are lossing ground.

Anyone here have any experience with SE and SW? I would like to hear some pro's and con's of each. Thanks, Mark

You are correct in saying Mech uses less elements for a specific job but just like everything else there is a trade off. If the problem becomes more complex, the polynomial order of the elements increases. I have ran one model in mech and had it ran in 14 min, the same model in Abaqus ran in...

Onix, I looked at Abaqus and ANSYS and we bought Abaqus this week. I think they are both very good programs for what we are doing, ie. very large assemblies. The reason we went with Abaqus was, their salespeople are engineers and actually knew how to run the software and not just a preplaned...

Thanks for all your responses, I really appreciate it. Mark

I appreciate the responses you three have given. I am sure that the number of elements in the Algor model can be reduced. The problem is, as Jason has said, it is very time consuming. Algor tech support said I could reduce the mesh size if I were to build the model inside superdraw. If you...

I am at a company that has Algor and Mechanica but believe we are approaching the limits of our current software. I have used ANSYS in the past, about 3 years ago and know it is a fine program. Does anyone here have any experience with both Abaqus and ANSYS and could give me a comparison for...