Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE) Market” by Renato Lopez Diaz

“How SimScale is Democratizing the ComputerAided Engineering (CAE) Market”

Snap Shot in Time

There was a time in history when taking a picture required a film, you would not be able to see

any of your photographs, with the exception of Polaroids and other instant cameras, until you

had finished the film (24-36 shots more or less), went to a photo shop and developed it;

meaning that unless you owned a photo studio or developed the pictures in your bathroom, you

would probably be the second or third person to see your own photographs. Seems like ages,

right? And that was not so long ago. Then, in the anxiety of the 20th Century, digital

photography slowly began to break ice, until in the dawn of the millennium came to the masses;

digital photography was no longer reserved for scientists, astronauts and eccentric millionaires.

Suddenly, you were allowed to see, instantaneously, that your thumb is not invisible and millions

of pictures of cats took over the internet. We now own our pictures; we can choose which to

print and which to keep (or delete). From that moment on, photography became available for all.

Bringing Down the Walls

A similar story is what is happening right now with Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE). Long

gone are the days that would require a NASA-like control room and a million dollars in budget

for running a Finite Element Analysis, or a Thermodynamics simulation. Long gone are the days

that predicting the behavior of the elements around an airliner would be an enigma; testing a

flap to the extreme would require to physically produce the flap itself, but now we can be spared

of all that, because we can simulate these and every possible scenario any engineering or

design project can encounter with our fingertips.

The walls of financial investment, licenses, heavy hardware, wasted time and all those barriers

that prevented a knowledge-thirsty student and an avid entrepreneurial engineer from taking

their project to reality have been torn down. The power of the leading-edge CFD Software

behind the revolutionary SimScale, allows you to perform Finite Element Analysis,

Computational Fluid Dynamics, and Thermal Simulation as well as it cracks down an extensive

scope of problems related to laminar and turbulent flows, Structural Analysis, Particle Analysis,

multiphase flows and an even greater array in an all-inclusive platform. Just like photography,

simulation software has been reinvented and made accessible.

…And Simulation for All

No matter if you are a third semester mechanical engineer student or the Chief Engineer at

your developing company, or even a product designer trying to figure out if the lamp you just

created will also serve as a hammock post, SimScale gives you access to perform various tests

by simulating the countless conditions that elements will infringe in your project. It is free to use,

and its software-as-service capabilities, totally adjust to any budget, delivering fully scalable

solutions. Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE) and Computer-Aided Design (CAD) have been

given to the people.

Creators Unite!

SimScale was designed to be a platform, not a web service or an application; it brings solvers,

users and code developers together. Having open-source, allows users to understand how this

entire ecosystem works, and since it is constantly improved based on the needs of its users, it is

continuously enhanced to resolve any struggle that may come in the way. This platform gives a

new sense of belonging. Its collaborative community members constantly share knowledge, tips

and tricks and all those freshly gathered perceptions go right into the core to improve and to

light up those minds who believe their struggles are unique. SimScale engages with its

community encouraging user-based innovation with its various webinars and ongoing

challenges that foster creativity within its community.

The Leap

SimScale’s philosophy of sharing knowledge, constant enhancement and making CAE and

CAD software technology available to the world is a breakthrough and a new dawn in

innovation. It is undoubtedly a revolutionizing concept that has democratized the Computer

Aided Engineering Market and has changed the game forever.