Ansys Discovery
3D Simulation Software
Ansys Discovery features the first simulation-driven design tool combining instant physics simulation, high-fidelity simulation and interactive geometry modeling in a single easy-to-use experience.
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Ansys Discovery Reveals Critical Insights Early in the Design Process
By combining interactive modeling and multiple simulation capabilities in a first-of-its-kind product, Discovery allows you to answer critical design questions earlier in the design process. This upfront approach to simulation saves time and effort on prototyping as you explore multiple design concepts in real time with no need to wait for simulation results.
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Easy-to-use interface
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High-fidelity simulation powered by Ansys solvers
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Embedded multiphysics simulation
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First-of-its-kind live physics simulation
Quick Specs
Ansys Discovery answers critical design questions early in your process with speed and accuracy. Boost productivity and performance by eliminating long waits for simulation results. Discovery lets engineers focus on innovation and product performance.
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Fluid-solid Thermal Analysis
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Filters, Screens or Perforated Plates Simulation -
Steady-state and Transient Analysis
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Parameter Studies
Creating Surgical Solutions for Quicker Patient Recovery
Discovery speeds implant design to improve patient rehabilitation.
Patients rely on the speed and accuracy of Techfit Digital Surgery to create implants that support healing bones. Every patient’s needs are unique, whether they're recovering from cancer or major injuries. Ansys Discovery simulation solutions can directly impact a patient’s recovery and rehabilitation. By exploring different design scenarios, engineers can validate products faster, get patients into surgery quicker and enable patients to enjoy recovery sooner. Through the Discovery software, Techfit Digital Surgery evaluates a patient's need and turns it into a design, highlighting the company’s mantra of “iteration makes perfection.”
July 2022
What's New
Set up and run simulations in Ansys Discovery for a wide range of industries and applications faster and easier than ever before with new capabilities, performance improvements and dynamic collaboration updates.
Bolted Structures
Modeling bolted assemblies are now ridiculously easy. A new bolted connection tool detects mating bolt holes, matches sizing to industry standards, suppresses bolt geometry, and creates an associative physics connection that supports pre-tensioning.
Flow control devices & antenna ideation
Porous media modeling is now supported in Discovery’s Live Physics enabling fast, easy-to-use simulation of filters and other resistive flows. High-frequency electromagnetics modeling is added for initial concept evaluation and placement of basic antennas before a more detailed study in Ansys HFSS.
Electronics Cooling
Revamped tools for Icepak model simplification are now a part of Discovery offering an accelerated workflow for electronics cooling applications. Automated small feature and logo detection is added making it fast and easy to speed up your simulations and reduce issues through model simplification.
Discovery Case Studies
FAQs
Ansys Discovery is a simulation-driven 3D design software tool that combines interactive modeling and multiple simulation capabilities, allowing you to address critical design challenges earlier in the product design process.
You can learn Ansys Discovery by viewing tutorials on the Ansys Discovery Forum. You can also share tips, provide feedback, and get answers to your questions.
Ansys customers can also take training courses on Ansys Discovery, such as Introduction to Ansys Discovery, Ansys Discovery in Ansys Cloud, and Ansys Discovery for FEA Geometry Preparation.
Yes. You can import a variety of models from CAD packages such as AutoCAD, CATIA, SolidWorks, and more. To see which CAD packages are supported, view our complete list .
You can request a 30-day free trial of Ansys Discovery here:
Upfront simulation is a design process that uses simulation to reduce prototyping and testing and minimizes engineering change orders while maximizing design and ideation focus. Discovery's GPU live solver allows you to explore different design ideas in real-time with instantaneous results.
Yes. You can open, repair and edit any CAD file in Ansys Discovery. Discovery's direct modeling technology is faster, easier, and more flexible than any other 3D modeling tool.
DISCOVERY CAPABILITIES
Upfront Simulation Speeds the Innovation of Product Design
By answering critical design questions early in the process, thus decreasing engineer labor and physical prototyping costs, Ansys Discovery allows for a ROI boost across your organization. Upfront simulation reduces prototyping and testing needs and minimizes engineering change orders while maximizing design and ideation focus.
Ansys Discovery 3D product simulation software allows engineers to quickly prepare models for simulation or create design variations, all while rapidly exploring multiple design concepts with real-time interactivity. Upfront simulation improves product insight and leads to a more efficient and higher-performing outcome.
Key Features
Simplify your 3D modeling and simulation tasks with a range of Discovery software capabilities.
With the interactive nature of Ansys Discovery, engineers can test several design ideas in mere seconds, receiving immediate insights on the structural performance of a design. Expect to quickly observe the different modes of vibration and receive a rapid understanding of resonant frequencies. Discovery removes barriers that previously prevented engineers from using engineering simulation. Instead of dealing with the difficulty of performing structural analyses on complicated geometry, Discovery enables near-instant simulation results once loads are established.
Whether you’re addressing internal or external flow, you can explore a variety of fluid wonders. Incorporate porous media into your analysis when applicable. When you’re ready for additional detail and higher accuracy, use the Ansys Fluent solver within the Discovery environment, without changing your model or your workflow.
The speed of the Ansys Discovery topology optimization tool is extremely handy, but the interactivity of the tool for generative design — the first-ever offering of its kind — means engineers can easily evaluate a wide-ranging spectrum of product behaviors to uncover the perfect design solution. Topology optimization capabilities account for manufacturing constraints and can apply to multiple load cases and physics, including modal and structural simulations, giving Discovery additional uses across multiple product designs.
The real-time heat flow and temperature distribution information enables you to test ideas in real time, iterating and ideating along the way to find the best solution for your design needs. Leverage conjugate heat transfer (CHT) to determine fluid and solid temperatures for evaluating fluid and thermal performance of product designs. Solve a wide range of product design challenges with multiphysics simulation capabilities across numerous industry applications.
The ability to create and edit geometry remains critical to design exploration. The Ansys Discovery software makes those tools available within all parts of the workflow. Engineers can edit the shape of a model while viewing results and watch the simulation immediately update. Leverage native CAD models from a vast range of sources and update simulations with new versions when changes come. Geometry modeling offers a fresh take on simulation speed with a focus on final solutions.
Quickly observe the impact of antenna locations and receive a rapid understanding of problems. Whether you have a basic CAD model or one with 1000 threaded screws, there’s no need to simplify your CAD geometry. With fast, direct geometry editing powered by Ansys SpaceClaim , adjust the antenna location in real-time and instantly see the impact.
Get to know the best solution for your project by studying how changes to geometry or physics input parameters change the results. Using parameter studies — also known as parameter sweeps — the design studies create a Pareto frontier of data in Ansys Discovery, meaning you can explore a large number of design possibilities by automating multiple geometric or simulation parameters. The simple process allows you to choose input parameters so you’re evaluating ideas simultaneously. With Discovery’s processes automated, expect to rapidly try new ideas, obtain fresh results and better understand trends and trade-offs to fit within your design goals.
DISCOVERY PACKAGING & LICENSING
Ansys Discovery License
The Ansys Discovery license provides access to a broad set of modeling and physics simulation capabilities, including geometry modeling tools for cleaning, defeaturing and editing imported models; as well as generating new geometries to support simulation workflows; live physics simulation capabilities including thermal, structural, fluids and topology optimization; and simulation setup and post-processing functionality.
Solving high-fidelity simulation in Ansys Discovery requires an additional license, depending on the physics. To leverage the Ansys Mechanical Solver for structural and thermal physics requires the Mechanical Pro license; whereas solving fluid physics requires the CFD Pro license.
Product Packages
| Ansys Discovery Capability |
Discovery Modeling |
Discovery Simulation |
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| Open Data from All Major CAD Systems | ||
| Modify Imported Geometry | ||
| Defeaturing and Simplification Tools | ||
| Model Repair | ||
| Repair and Edit Faceted Data | ||
| Geometric Parameterization | ||
| Scripting | ||
| Transfer to Mechanical | ||
| Transfer to Fluent | ||
| Simulation Setup & Pre-processing | ||
| Post-processing of Results | ||
| Static Structural | ||
| Modal | ||
| Point Masses | ||
| Pre-stressed Modal | * | |
| Linear Frictionless Contact | ||
| Nonlinear Contact & Joints | * | |
| Large Deformation | * | |
| High Frequency Electromagnetics | * | |
| Topology Optimization | ||
| Manufacturing Contraints for Topology Optimization | ||
| Steady-state Thermal | ||
| Conduction | ||
| Convection | ||
| Transient Thermal | ||
| Steady-state Flow | ||
| Transient Flow | ||
| Incompressible Flow | ||
| Buoyancy - Boussinesq | ||
| Thermal Serface Loads (convection, heat) | ||
| Thermal-stress | ||
| Transfer to HFSS | ||
| * Requires additional license |
DISCOVERY RESOURCES & EVENTS
Featured Webinars
Ansys Discovery 2022 R2 Updates & More
Ansys Discovery continues to expand simulation capabilities and ease of use for every engineer! Learn about the improvements in 2022 R2, along with ten (10) focused sessions on Upfront Simulation at Level Up 3.0
Discovery Webinar Series
Learn how Discovery can help you improve effectiveness across valves, address structural simulation challenges, overcome thermal management issues and perform topology optimization and much more...all in 17 minutes.
Ansys 2022 R1: Ansys Discovery & Geometry Update
Ansys 2022 R1 offers many workflow speed improvements to Ansys’ 3D Design suite, making your geometry prep and simulation tasks easier than ever.
Videos
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Radically Improving Product Development Processes
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Exploring Key Features of the All-New Ansys Discovery
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Driving Productivity, Innovation and Quality
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Design Exploration for Every Engineer with Generative Design in Ansys Discovery
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Leverage your existing CAD Platform
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