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Ansys SpaceClaim Overview

What is Ansys SpaceClaim?

Ansys SpaceClaim modeling software allows you to quickly create, modify and repair geometry for rapid editing of designs. Additionally, you can optimize designs for simulation or many manufacturing method - including 3D printing and reverse engineering. Create everything from rough concepts to detailed designs, along with fixtures and tooling, plus cleanup 3D CAD scan data.

Ansys SpaceClaim Details
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Product Description

ANSYS SpaceClaim is an engineering CAD software that enables anyone to create, edit, and repair geometry without worrying about techNology.


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Year Founded
1970
HQ Location
Canonsburg, PA
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@ANSYS
29,999 Twitter followers
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8,002 employees on LinkedIn®
Ownership
NASDAQ:ANSS
Total Revenue (USD mm)
$1,681
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For more than 50 years, Ansys software has enabled innovators across industries to push boundaries with the predictive power of simulation. From sustainable transportation and advanced semiconductors, to satellite systems and life-saving medical devices, the next great leaps in human advancement will be powered by Ansys.


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Recent Ansys SpaceClaim Reviews

Luca C.
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Luca C.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Very flexible, but not parametric"
Many interchange directly from to many native CAD format. Very flexible.
Nathaniel S.
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Nathaniel S.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"I've been using Spaceclaim for over 12+ years"
Quite Simply, is the ease of learning and use. Great drafting process that gets the job details out to the fabricators on the shop floor. We use sp...
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Verified UserEnterprise (> 1000 emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"I am a cfd analyst, have been using spaceclaim with ansys-fluent for about 9+ years on projects"
The intuitive nature of spaceclaim (SCDM) and its GUI , the learning curve with SCDM is very fast mostly 4 operations - pull, move, fill & boolean...
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Ansys SpaceClaim Media

Ansys SpaceClaim Demo - Parametric Modeling
When developing new designs, speed, ease of use and performance insights are critical to a successful product launch. Very few 3D engineering tools are fast, easy and powerful, resulting in tradeoffs or the use of multiple software. Ansys SpaceClaim’s flexible direct editing feature that helps y...
Ansys SpaceClaim Demo - 3D Design, Concept Modeling and Hybrid Modeling
Ansys SpaceClaim’s hybrid modeling combines cutting-edge direct modeling technology that supports CAD models from any system, along with the ability to repair, edit and modify faceted models like STL. SpaceClaim’s hybrid modeling integrates a new sketch solver equipped with constraints and a reco...
Ansys SpaceClaim Demo - Reverse Engineering
In today’s fast-paced market, products must be designed and manufactured as quickly as possible to have a competitive advantage. There is often a significant bottleneck between designing, prototyping and manufacturing a new product. For example, CAD models might become corrupted during transfer b...
Ansys SpaceClaim Demo - Model Prep for Simulation
Leverage SpaceClaim for model prep for simulation, and pass it over to Ansys Discovery for eal-time simulation of structural loading trends, thermal transfer, modal response, fluid behavior and topology optimizations to lightweight and improve the performance of the design.
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Ansys SpaceClaim Pros and Cons

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Nathaniel S.
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What do you like best about Ansys SpaceClaim?

Quite Simply, is the ease of learning and use. Great drafting process that gets the job details out to the fabricators on the shop floor. We use spaceclaim to make tooling for sheet metal stampings. once you've mastered it, Changes are a breeze to make, and in the prototype business thay comes in very handy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ansys SpaceClaim?

The sheet metal un-folding package is not very robust when it comes to blanking parts with beads in them. and will not unfold parts with contour, Like VISI can do. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Ansys SpaceClaim solving and how is that benefiting you?

The speed in which we can develop tooling around a customer supplied part. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Luca C.
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What do you like best about Ansys SpaceClaim?

Many interchange directly from to many native CAD format.

Very flexible. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ansys SpaceClaim?

No parametric, ther's no history for change during modeling. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Ansys SpaceClaim solving and how is that benefiting you?

Often, what major CADs cannot do can be done with this CAD. Direct modeling. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Ansys SpaceClaim?

The ease of operation of the software and foolproof ui. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ansys SpaceClaim?

Less availablity of training videos to learn the software Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Ansys SpaceClaim solving and how is that benefiting you?

Ansys space claim is used for 3d modelling and to analyse the structure or equipment before being manufactured hence saving time and money Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ronit J.
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What do you like best about Ansys SpaceClaim?

Ansys SpaceClaim helps in simplifying the simulation of complex engineering products which reduces the simulation run time and helps us in giving faster and more accurate results. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ansys SpaceClaim?

The interface is a bit complex and it requires initial training for usage. The basic functions like dividing a face into a no. of splits, making a group of faces, etc should come very handy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Ansys SpaceClaim solving and how is that benefiting you?

It helps in reducing the simulation run time a lot by helping us in simplifying the complex and real-world engineering conditions into much simpler and practical conditions such that there is no effect on the accuracy of results. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

SUKUMAR S.
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What do you like best about Ansys SpaceClaim?

It comes with ansys simluation module, hence eliminates purchase of external modeling tool. Feasible module directly corelates with analysis module . Advanced tool used for redesigning of analysis system in the same module Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ansys SpaceClaim?

Complex feature capturing is not feasible with space claim. Steep down curve for isers using loft and sweep feature. Customisation is not user friendly like other tools Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Ansys SpaceClaim solving and how is that benefiting you?

3D modeling assosiciated with ansys module makes it easy for 3D modeling . Used for extracting mid surface as well used for analysis purpose. Various modeling options makes users to reduce modeling time Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Arbaz b.
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Mechanical Design Engineer
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What do you like best about Ansys SpaceClaim?

Easy going software of last moment model change preparation for analysis. Like slight change in model to overcome singularity in analysis results. Save lots of time in going back and forth! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ansys SpaceClaim?

Not suitable enough when working with huge parts with multiple child parts. Requires practices to get used if using otger modelling software. Converting file type is tedious!! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Ansys SpaceClaim solving and how is that benefiting you?

Easy going software of last moment model change preparation for analysis. Slight model change like to overcome singularity in results. Or when mesh fails due to some model interference this is very useful Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Maulik P.
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What do you like best about Ansys SpaceClaim?

Simple and easy cad editing tool it has minimalistic design also latest update support topology optimizay feature. It is best for cad geometry genration or editing the existing geometry. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ansys SpaceClaim?

It has not product tree also it is not support feature devlopment like any othe cad software but as it us cae tool mainly so ansys spaceclaim is quite good. Not much con. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Ansys SpaceClaim solving and how is that benefiting you?

It is good for cleanup the geometry which was imported from other cad files. Also simple part modeling can be done easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

TUNCAY K.
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What do you like best about Ansys SpaceClaim?

Modifying and simplifying of a model that I import in Ansys SpaceClaim is so easy to learn and imply. You can simply delete or add a feature or change a size of a part. It also helps with parametric study by shifting e.g. length of a part, you can study a dependent result variation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ansys SpaceClaim?

Modeling a brand new geometry from scetch is something I could not intuitively figure out like I did in Solidworks or Inventor. It is in the level of difficulty as Autocad or Catia. Its interface could be more user friendly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Ansys SpaceClaim solving and how is that benefiting you?

I solved big machinery problems either prepared and simplified model for static structural analysis or rigid dynamics analysis. Meshing would be very tedious problem without spaceclaim Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Ansys SpaceClaim?

The intuitive nature of spaceclaim (SCDM) and its GUI , the learning curve with SCDM is very fast mostly 4 operations - pull, move, fill & boolean operations can meet CAD simplification needs (for simulation model simplification) and , the ease with which certain CAD modification operations are performed which can be complex to learn in other CAD softwares , repairing geom features - stitching, missing faces are beneficial in case of complex geometries, the CNTRL+scroll feature to select background faces is very good. The ease of share-topology and named selections. Scripting is very powerful tool but very poor documentation on it is provided. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ansys SpaceClaim?

Sharetopology does not always work as it should; a lot of manual work needs on the parts to be done in such cases. 'Interference' cannot fix interference between all parts at times - again, quite a lot of effort needs to be spent in such cases. The 'merge' by default option setting for pull, move etc is a blunder; it has to be changed to 'no merge' on every new installation. Spaceclaim has an easy-to-learn curve, limiting how much production 3D CAD parts can be simplified. No documentation on spaceclaim scripting. Creating relations between parameters is not possible Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Ansys SpaceClaim:

I would like if spaceclaim developer team worked thoroughly on the issues spaceclaim has with sharetopology, stitching, interference removal in some cases. Scripting feature should be more user friendly, I think there is a lot of scope of enabling automation in scdm Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Ansys SpaceClaim solving and how is that benefiting you?

I simplify ("clean-up" ) the CAD in Spaceclaim so that it can be imported into ansys-Fluent for meshing and cfd model building. I realized SCDM is really quick to catch up for beginners, a CFD engineer should spend most of his time on solution analysis, and SCDM helps achieve this goal by simplifying the process of CAD-cleanup that CFD engineers have to go through Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

SHIVAM MISHRA M.
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Engineering Analyst, Grade II
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What do you like best about Ansys SpaceClaim?

SpaceClaim is probably the best software in analysis softwares when it comes to modelling. It provides a very user-friendly interface ad tool to finish your work as quickly as possible with great ease. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ansys SpaceClaim?

There are very few problems with this software. If I have to point some things out, the makes can add a few more features like boolean functions. The software lags when heavy models are imported. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Ansys SpaceClaim solving and how is that benefiting you?

we have used it in the geometry cleanup of most of the products we work on. From solid modeling of pressure-containing components to complex shell frames used in transportation goods. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.