Top 15 SolidWorks Simulation Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

SolidWorks simulation technology ensures the quality and performance of your design before you commit to production. Comprehensive analysis tools let you test models digitally for valuable insight early in the design process. With the information you develop, you can easily determine methods to reduce weight and material costs, improve durability and manufacturability, optimize margins, and compare design alternatives to best meet specific customer requirements.

1. PTC Creo

PTC Creo Creo Elements/Pro – formerly Pro/ENGINEER – is the standard in 3D product design, featuring state-of-the-art productivity tools that promote best practices in design while ensuring compliance with your industry and company standards. Integrated, parametric, 3D CAD/CAM/CAE solutions allow you to design faster than ever, while maximizing innovation and quality to......

2. Fachwerk & Fachwerk 3D

Fachwerk & Fachwerk 3D Fachwerk is aimed at structural engineers who analyse and design reinforced concrete structures. It intends to simplify the application of discontinuous stress fields and strut-and-tie models.The program calculates strut-and-tie models. It only uses equilibrium conditions. Thus, unlike common programs, it does not assume elastic material behaviour.If the modelled system......

3. CYPE 3D

CYPE 3D Three dimensional bar structure project with steel and wood sections, including foundations (pad foundations, pile caps, strap and tie beams) and bracing systems against lateral loads, allowing ties that work only in tension. Joint and baseplate design for metallic structures.......

4. RFEM: Structural FEM Analysis and Design

RFEM: Structural FEM Analysis and Design RFEM is a powerful and intuitive FEA program for verifiable structural analysis and effective design of general structures acc. to numerous standards.......

5. CYPECAD

CYPECAD Program for analysis and design of reinforced concrete and steel structures made up of: columns, walls and shear walls; concrete, steel and composite beams; joist floor slabs (generic, reinforced, prestressed, in situ, steel, and open- web), hollow core plates, composite slabs, waffle slabs and flat slabs; mat or pad foundations,......

6. Sofistik

Sofistik SOFiSTiK - a universal software package, using the method of finite element analysis (FEA) to calculate and structural engineering, geotechnical engineering solutions of problems of any complexity, analysis of gas- and hydrodynamics.......

7. PROKON Structural Analysis and Design

PROKON Structural Analysis and Design PROKON® Structural Analysis and Design is a suite of over forty structural analysis, design and detailing programs. The first PROKON programs were developed in 1989, and today PROKON is used worldwide in over eighty countries. The suite is modular in nature, but its true power lies in the tight integration......

8. RSTAB - Structural Frame & Truss Analysis

RSTAB - Structural Frame & Truss Analysis RSTAB is a powerful and intuitive software for verifiable structural analysis and effective design of beam, frame, and truss structures according to numerous standards.With RSTAB you can easily and quickly define a structural model and then calculate the internal forces, deformations, and support reactions. For further design, there are various......

9. midas FEA

midas FEA midas FEA is state of the art software which defines a new paradigm for advanced nonlinear and detail analysis for civil and structural engineering applications. It is specialized for refined method analysis, which is required by design codes for complex geometry. midas FEA's unique capabilities make it possible to efficiently......

10. STRAP

STRAP STRAP (STRuctural Analysis Programs) is a Windows based suite of finite element static and dynamic analysis programs for buildings, bridges and other structures. It also includes modules for the design of steel sections (rolled and cold formed) and reinforced concrete (beams, columns, slabs, walls, footings) in accordance with American, European,......

11. RAM Structural System

RAM Structural System Want to tackle projects with confidence and produce high quality, economical designs using various concrete, steel and joist building materials? Try our software.......

12. Graitec Advance Design

Graitec Advance Design Advance Design: Professional Finite Element Structural Analysis SoftwareAdvance Design was specifically developed for industry professionals that require a superior solution for the structural analysis and design of Reinforced Concrete, Steel and Timber structures according to the latest versions of Eurocodes (EC0, EC1, EC2, EC3, EC5 and EC8), North American (ACI......

13. Diamonds

Diamonds Diamonds is the perfect software for structural design analysis of beam grids, floor slabs, rafts, walls, frames and multi-storey buildings, ... in concrete or steel. Development of calculation engineering design software with powerfull tools en simple user interfaces......

14. Lusas Civil & Structural

Lusas Civil & Structural LUSAS Civil & Structural is a world-leading finite element analysis software application for the analysis, design and assessment of all types of structures. Whether you need to carry out a straightforward linear static analysis of a simple structural frame, a dynamic analysis of a masonry or concrete building, or a......

15. S-FRAME Analysis

S-FRAME Analysis S-FRAME Software for Structural EngineersTrusted by thousands of structural engineers worldwide for over 30 years, S-FRAME is the design and analysis software of choice for moment frames, braced frames, trusses, bridges, office and residential buildings, skyscrapers, industrial buildings, plate/shell and fabric structures, cable structures and more.S-FRAME features numerous advanced analyses,......