Cost of CosmosFloWorks?

[Standing]

Does anyone know the cost of CosmosFloWorks? We have called our VAR for a 30 day trial. He said it was a lengthy process to get the trial of CosmosFloWorks. We do not do air flow enough to justifying the purchase of $1000’s. The VAR is going to set us up with a consultant.

Bradley
SolidWorks Professional x64 2007 SP3.0
Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU
3.00 GHz, 3.93 GB of RAM
Virtual memory 12577 MB
NVIDIA Quadro FX 3400

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

Just going from memory (several years ago) I believe it was about $7000.


SW07-SP3

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

You might have better luck at forum1183, the SolidWorks: COSMOS Forum.

... or your VAR

Last time we used a consultant it cost about $1,000 and the results were inconclusive. More iterations were to be extra cost.


SW07-SP3

 

[Standing]

Our VAR did get back too us with an answer.

The software is 10K, the first year of Subscription Service is $3250 and training is between 2-5K depending on your current level of expertise. You can budget about 15K to get started.

Bradley
SolidWorks Professional x64 2007 SP3.0
Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU
3.00 GHz, 3.93 GB of RAM
Virtual memory 12577 MB
NVIDIA Quadro FX 3400

 

[ejc]

From SolidWorks website:
FloXpress, new to SolidWorks 2008, is a fluid flow analysis tool for the engineer who needs flow analysis, but is not necessarily an expert in the field of fluid simulation.

Might be worth upgrading when available.

 

[charlie2go2ubet]

We recieved the same quote as you did on FlowWorks.

We are also looking into CFDeisgn. It uses Solidworks parts/assemblies, but runs exernal to Solidworks. We were quoted 15K for purchase of CFdesign + 1600 for classes. They will hopefully also quote contract work.

Am I the only one who sees CF software as high priced for what it promises. Any result still needs to be confirmed experimentally, and at best, the software relys heavily on a skilled operator making the right decisions.

I am begining to think the only way I will recieve any satisfaction doing Computational Flow is to take a class at a university that has access to the software as part of the class. Maybe contract a student to do the project as part of their education.

 

[J-C]

Its probably expensive cause it takes quite a bit of programming to devleop and there aren't that many people that need it. 3d cad used to be the same way....expensive...until it became more mainstream. (Though Catia and UG seem to be holding out on their prices)

Jason

UG NX2.02.2 on Win2000 SP3
UG NX4.01.0 on Win2000 SP3
SolidWorks 2007 SP2.2 on WinXP SP2