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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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8,002 employees on LinkedIn®
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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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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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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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Shanmugam N.
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Mechanical Engineer
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What do you like best about Ansys SpaceClaim?

Ease of tool interaction.

Specifically good for Cleanup of the model used for FE simulations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ansys SpaceClaim?

Not Like proper CAD tool. Because of the geometrical constraints

And also non parametric tool Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Quick modeling of small individual components / equipments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Christopher S.
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Product Development Engineer
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What do you like best about Ansys SpaceClaim?

The User Interface is clean and relatively easy to navigate. The feel is modern. And creating Named Selections is very easy. For importing various file types, SpaceClaim is fantastic. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ansys SpaceClaim?

Navigation is not intuitive as you pursue more advanced editing commands. And constraining parametrics is not as straightforward as any competitive modern CAD system. For easy geometry creation SpaceClaim is adequate and only surpasses DesignModeler. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Importation of various geometry file types works well in SpaceClaim. Natively I use a more popular commercial CAD product and without a direct translator in to Ansys, SpaceClaim fits the bill nicely. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Tomas N.
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What do you like best about Ansys SpaceClaim?

The ease of use and possibility to forget about it for a month and then immediately getting back into the program. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ansys SpaceClaim?

The cost of the software, otherwise no apparent dislikes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

CAD program. Possibly to change from drawing in one program and then adding the data into a separate calculation software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Ansys SpaceClaim?

Ansys SpaceClaim is a useful software for general purpose Computer Aided Design. What is great about it, is that Ansys optimizted it for integration among its other software like Fluent. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ansys SpaceClaim?

Being a non-feature CAD software, Ansys SpaceClaim is not great for editing existing models. This means parametrizing a geomtery for optimization is not simple. This is a disadvantage for all similar tools using this approach. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I use SpacClaim when importing CAD geomteries from external tools (like SolidWorks). I find Design Modeler (another Ansys geomtery software) not very well suited for that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

As fast you can think with same speed you can make quick changes. This is not possible with other CAD software. It's not history base , so you can delete reference planes or other entity after purpose gets served. You can record scripts of your model and with litle changes you can create new model within no time.It's very much user-friendly and you can open any type of CAD files in Spaceclaim.Also you can fix /repair surface models with imperfect surfaces. Repair tool is very powerfull you can correct edges, surfaces etc. You can remove all interferences in one click.You can create imprints with special tab given. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ansys SpaceClaim?

In space claim with units system mm max fillet radius you can give is 0.1 mm. So if you have to give fillet radius less than 0.1mm you need to change unit system . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

1. We are using Ansys for preprocessing each and every model.

2. We correct our surfaces models in space claim.

3. We are using Space claim to create . sTL file with requires quality as an input for water management simulations. Space claim is fastest to create this kind of files, we have compared all our CAD tools with Space claim and Space claim is quick and it creates same quality file with less disk size. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Marco B.
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What do you like best about Ansys SpaceClaim?

The 3Dimensional changes which can be done on single go and not with much of initial input and pre directions.

Splitting the surfaces with respect to very easy access to dimensional nature.

Easier process to check the geomterical gaps, free edges Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ansys SpaceClaim?

No hsitory of changes done to CAD model, cannot rechange or go back to previous changes with a list of all changes done on CAD, once saved and exited cannot know how the model is modified

Cannot identify the Geometry errors like minimal gap between two surfaces which would give issue for meshing because volume cannot be generated in that neglible gap Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Whatever the changes needed on a CAD model for FEA structural analyses, i can do the modfications on ease and with less duration of effort. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Abdallah A.
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What do you like best about Ansys SpaceClaim?

I used the SpaceClaim for 2D drawing. It was very beneficial and easy to use. Also, it is easier than Design Modular when you use python code for parametric study. It is much better and I was comfortable with it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ansys SpaceClaim?

I think we need more tutorials for 3D systems. And I faced a problem with " how can I active the inflation layers with SpaceClaim". So, we need to solve these problems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It is good and easier for drawing. Actually, anybody can use it. So much so that a small child can use it. And the big benefit was using the python code. it was useful for parametric study. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Shirish C.
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Simulation Engineer CFD
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What do you like best about Ansys SpaceClaim?

Creating solid bodies, subtracting them to create required final geometry model makes the things easy. Also the surface repair options like stitching, filling similar holes reduces repeating work. Also I love the way we can create 2D sketches and make 3D models from them. Very useful for cfd applications where inner volume can be extracted in comparatively easier way. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ansys SpaceClaim?

Some times the stitching option doesn't work to merge to surfaces with small gaps. But over the time I learned some tricks to do it otherwise. Also some of the surface repair options don't work as per my expectations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Makes you efficient for DOE studies, reduces dependency on the design engineers, you can yourself design the components simulate them and improve them with ease. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Inner volume generation for cfd modelling, SCR reactor model simplification and design changes. Injector geometry extractions for flow analysis. Power house geometry simplification. Very quickly the work can be finished and also accurately. Geometric variants can be prepared easily by introducing small changes. 200 to 300 percent faster. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Gaurav D.
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What do you like best about Ansys SpaceClaim?

The process to make geometry is so quick. With just few click you can make changes to you model. Simply your models from solid to shell or to beam. It so user friendly. The best part is rectifying the geometries is it just really something unique which it offers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ansys SpaceClaim?

Things like the load time of Space claim is more, like when you are trying to open it. I guess that could be due to lot of things to be loaded due the hepty GUI. If that can be brought down. SCDM would be the all in one undoubtedly the best package. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Ansys SpaceClaim:

If you are looking for all in on package for modeling, cleaning and parametric design of models SCDM is the way to go. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I mostly use SCDM for my structural analysis for creating geometries. I was a noob in CAD have used only CATIA in past. What I found is SCDM is certainly very user friendly and doing changes in model is so quick. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.