Hello everyone, I work for a very successful company that uses Autodesk Mechanical Desktop (I know, pretty amazing, huh.) The necessary switch is being made to Inventor 10/11 very soon and we are trying to price up the perfect FEA/CFD package.
I've looked around a bit and I have some questions about ANSYS Designspace...
1) I've been told that the "best" flavor of Designspace is OPTIMA, which adds the very important Assembly capability with the FEA. It also has a more detailed meshing option. Can anyone show me a chart or something that compares OPTIMA to the rest of the ANSYS (and specifically Designspace) lineup? I have received documentation from ANSYS that shows Designspace compared to all the other high-end software from ANSYS (like Multiphysics and Mechanical, etc.) but the specs for "Designspace" are more than likely shown for the ENTRA version, which seem very minimal.
2) My company deals heavily with electronics and placing them into very places, so the biggest needs in a software package are: typical stress/strain due to ambient pressure on an assembly or tension/bearing forces on a part, steady-state heat transfer through enclosures and to the atmosphere along with being able to see the airflow through an electronics assembly, fatigue stress would be nice but is not high on the priority list.
3) The company is about to go through some interesting times since we will be migrating from MDT to Inventor (and subsequently from Inventor 10, which is installed on our servers, to Inventor 11) so I would like to have confidence that the ANSYS software is not bug-ridden and untested on Inventor 11, while still being functional on Inventor 10.
Thanks for your help and if there is somewhere that I should look instead, please let me know. Any help is appreciated.
I've looked around a bit and I have some questions about ANSYS Designspace...
1) I've been told that the "best" flavor of Designspace is OPTIMA, which adds the very important Assembly capability with the FEA. It also has a more detailed meshing option. Can anyone show me a chart or something that compares OPTIMA to the rest of the ANSYS (and specifically Designspace) lineup? I have received documentation from ANSYS that shows Designspace compared to all the other high-end software from ANSYS (like Multiphysics and Mechanical, etc.) but the specs for "Designspace" are more than likely shown for the ENTRA version, which seem very minimal.
2) My company deals heavily with electronics and placing them into very places, so the biggest needs in a software package are: typical stress/strain due to ambient pressure on an assembly or tension/bearing forces on a part, steady-state heat transfer through enclosures and to the atmosphere along with being able to see the airflow through an electronics assembly, fatigue stress would be nice but is not high on the priority list.
3) The company is about to go through some interesting times since we will be migrating from MDT to Inventor (and subsequently from Inventor 10, which is installed on our servers, to Inventor 11) so I would like to have confidence that the ANSYS software is not bug-ridden and untested on Inventor 11, while still being functional on Inventor 10.
Thanks for your help and if there is somewhere that I should look instead, please let me know. Any help is appreciated.