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I've used ansys daily for over a decade, and the only movement is in how they name their license tiers. It's a slow muddy death march. Every year I'm fighting t

by navane 2y ago

I've used ansys daily for over a decade, and the only movement is in how they name their license tiers. It's a slow muddy death march. Every year I'm fighting the software more and more, the sales men are clearly at the wheel. They buy "vertical aligned" software, integrate it, then slowly let it die. They just announced they're killing off one of these next year, that they bought ten years ago, because they want to push a competitive product with 20% of the features. I've been using nastran for half as long but it isn't much better. It's all sales. I dabbed a bit in abaqus, that seems nice. Probably cause I just dabbed in it. But here I'm just trying to do my work, and all these companies do is move capabilities around their license tiers and boil the frog as fast as they get away with.

angry_moose 2y ago
I've gone Abaqus > Ansys > Abaqus/LS-DYNA over my career and hate Ansys with a fiery passion. It's the easiest one to run your first model in, but when you start applying it to real problems its a fully adversarial relationship. The fact you have to make a complete copy of the geometry/mesh to a new Workbench "block" to run a slightly different load case (and you can't read in an orphaned results files) is just horrible. Abaqus is more difficult to get up to speed in, but its really nice from an advanced usability standpoint. They struggle due to cost though, it is hugely expensive and we've had to fight hard to keep it time and time again. LS-Dyna is similar to Abaqus (though I'm not fully up in it yet), but we're all just waiting to see how Ansys ruins it, especially now that they got bought out by Synopsys.
- navane 2y ago
  I don't know how long ago you used ansys, and i definitely don't want to sell it, but you can share geometry/mesh between those "blocks" (by dragging blocks on top of each other), and you can read in result orphaned result files.

by navane 2y ago

angry_moose 2y ago

I've gone Abaqus > Ansys > Abaqus/LS-DYNA over my career and hate Ansys with a fiery passion. It's the easiest one to run your first model in, but when you start applying it to real problems its a fully adversarial relationship. The fact you have to make a complete copy of the geometry/mesh to a new Workbench "block" to run a slightly different load case (and you can't read in an orphaned results files) is just horrible. Abaqus is more difficult to get up to speed in, but its really nice from an advanced usability standpoint. They struggle due to cost though, it is hugely expensive and we've had to fight hard to keep it time and time again. LS-Dyna is similar to Abaqus (though I'm not fully up in it yet), but we're all just waiting to see how Ansys ruins it, especially now that they got bought out by Synopsys.

navane 2y ago
I don't know how long ago you used ansys, and i definitely don't want to sell it, but you can share geometry/mesh between those "blocks" (by dragging blocks on top of each other), and you can read in result orphaned result files.