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Creo Simulate Live vs Creo Ansys Simulate

  • March 31, 2022
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Please help me clarify:

So Creo has 3 Simulate solutions:

-Creo Simulate

-Creo Simulate Live

-Creo Ansys Simulate

 

Creo has 3 Flow solution

-Creo Flow Analysis

-Creo Simulate Live

-Creo Ansys Simulate

 

Is there a simple chart that goes through these differences? What are the benefits of each? What do users typically buy. It seems like Creo Simulate is an older tool, but the others are relatively new. Both Ansys Simulate and Simulate Live came out around the same time. Besides the fact that this is confusing (why do this?), it makes it harder on the consumer to figure out what to choose. It seems like on youtube, more people are discussing Simulate Live.

Best answer by remy

The following article breaks down the differences between these offerings : What is the difference of the Creo CAE product modules Creo Simulation, Creo Simulation Live and Creo ANSYS Simulation? https://www.ptc.com/en/support/article/cs349429 

 

From the product presentation (and from the top of my head), Creo Simulate is our historical and powerful Mechanical and Thermal Simulation solution (formerly known as Pro/Mechanica).

Creo Simulation live emphasizes on the speed of computation by leveraging GPU, is developed in partneship with ANSYS. It enables to get quick views from simulation and make design decision on the fly (vs waiting for the convergence and taking the risk of not converging at all and other iteration common issues related to numerica methodologies).
FInally Creo Ansys Simulation is basically ANSYS integrated to the Creo environment.

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tbraxton
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tbraxton22-Sapphire II
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April 1, 2022

Do you have analysts at your company that specialize in simulation? Do you need simulation tools to run within Creo? What do you need to simulate and when during the design/development do you want to employ simulation?

 

Consider Simulate Live as a lower fidelity sim tool to be used early concurrently with geometry development (in Creo) by the design team to improve the design to the point that it would be handed off to an analyst for validation. It can provide near real time feedback to the designer while working on the CAD model to iterate/improve the design. You need higher end GPUs to make use of Simulate Live.

 

If you are purchasing new licenses for FEA simulation, I would go with Creo Ansys over Creo Simulate. This assumes that you need an integrated solution for analysis.  If you do not need an integrated solution then consider buying the ANSYS packages that you need. ANSYS has the tools to work with Creo models directly.

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remy21-Topaz IAnswer
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April 1, 2022

The following article breaks down the differences between these offerings : What is the difference of the Creo CAE product modules Creo Simulation, Creo Simulation Live and Creo ANSYS Simulation? https://www.ptc.com/en/support/article/cs349429 

 

From the product presentation (and from the top of my head), Creo Simulate is our historical and powerful Mechanical and Thermal Simulation solution (formerly known as Pro/Mechanica).

Creo Simulation live emphasizes on the speed of computation by leveraging GPU, is developed in partneship with ANSYS. It enables to get quick views from simulation and make design decision on the fly (vs waiting for the convergence and taking the risk of not converging at all and other iteration common issues related to numerica methodologies).
FInally Creo Ansys Simulation is basically ANSYS integrated to the Creo environment.

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    jwagh17-PeridotAuthor
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    April 1, 2022

    Thanks! This was perfect!

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