Problems then ANSYS has much to recommend it. If your interests are solely in large strain non-linear analysis thenĪBAQUS would be a sound choice. Importantly a built in programming language (APDL) allowing you toĮxtend the capabilities in many directions. Wide range of solvers, a competent post processor and perhaps most Them together, a competent pre processor with good mesh generation andĪble to accept geometry from most CAD systems (except perhaps CATIA), a Other strengths of ANSYS include a powerful multi physics capabilityĪllowing you to analyse a wide range of physical phenomema and couple Is that their is currently no regridding capability so that once yourĮlements have become highly deformed you can't go any further. The major limitation of ANSYS for large strain problems A number of new material laws have been added in the Solves a bit faster but ANSYS produces higher quality results and is My experience would suggest that, for contact problems, ABAQUS TheĬontact capability is now very strong and certainly comparable withĪBAQUS. Lot of new features have been added over the last few versions. Non-linear capability was not the strongest in the industry. Through the correct channels? I think it is true that historically the Have your friends reported their suspect answers ANSYS are very strong on QualityĪssurance and their error notification procedures are, I think, the best Clearly with any tool you can use it in an inappropriate My experience is that ANSYS does not calculate Is user programmable so that you can adapt it to your specific You can turn it off and type commands from the command line or indeed it (This is based on a number of years experience of People find the standard ANSYS user interface easy to get to grips withĪnd productive. Know a little about ABAQUS and virtually nothing about MARC. I wasn't going to reply to the original post but feel I must make someĬomments to this response. >the automobile industry say it calculates wrong and it doesn't have many
>- Ansys is confusing with all its windows poping up, some friends from Hypermesh for Preprocessing and Animator for Postprosessing. It is a good tool even for crash analysis. Since Abaqus is also capable of doing explicite calculations, Learn Abaqus now and is amazed how easy it is. Year, Abaqus caught up in the non-linear sector. But since Marc didn't approve in the last the guys how program Abaqus used to work at Marc earlier and wereĪbout 1-2 years behind Marc. Use Marc, consider of using a meshing tool like Hypermesh in addition. Integrated in Nastran and will not be supported any more. As far as I found out, Marc is going to be But Marc has been boughtīy MSC, how sell Nastran etc. Non-linear jobs like car door rubber-analysis. The capabilities in plastics and elastomers combined with the contact,Īdaptive meshing and the rezoning made it the number one choice for Marc seems to be at the edge, although I never believed it myself. The automobile industry say it calculates wrong and it doesn't have manyįeatures Marc and Abaqus already have. Ansys is confusing with all its windows poping up, some friends from I've been working with Marc over 4 years now, seen a little bit of AnsysĪnd my best friend is learning Abaqus now.