WYCKOFF, NJ, Feb 26, 2015 – SimulationForDesign cloud-based service is available now. From a mail of SimulationForDesign team:

If you are a designer looking for access to structural analysis tools in order to improve the quality of your designs, ensure their ability to meet required performance criteria, or improve your design process, this email will give you some answers on how to address these needs – affordably.

Simulation has proven its value for the efficient design of reliable products for many years; in industries like aerospace and automotive for decades. Despite all the obvious advantages there is still a huge number of designers without regular access to these tools. Why? The reasons are many, for example:

• Simulation tools as traditionally licensed are often too expensive for users who only need sporadic access, thereby not allowing a return of investment.
• Users may need higher performance hardware than available.
• Classic simulation software is typically too complex for a designer and really only suited for expert users.

Now, SimulationForDesign, a new cloud-based service, is available to empower designers with access to an on-demand service that has been designed with their needs in mind – designed for designers. It will give users an understanding of their product performance in the early design phases, and will also allow for meaningful comparisons of different design alternatives. But what does “designed for designers” mean?

First, SimulationForDesign features a simplified simulation process, reducing all interactions to the minimum needed for reliable understanding of key product performance aspects, stresses, strain, and deformation. A designer with little or no simulation experience can make himself familiar with the required simulation set-up in a couple of hours; tutorials explaining the process and required user input assist with the necessary steps in easy-to-understand terms.

Second, SimulationForDesign is based in the Cloud, on powerful High Performance Clusters. All that is needed on your machine is a web browser to access the SimulationForDesign website. This means your workstation is still fully available for other design tasks while SimulationForDesign is analyzing your designs.

Third, SimulationForDesign offers an affordable pre-paid pricing model starting at only $10, which already allows users to analyze multiple parts or small assemblies. If you want to give access to your results to colleagues, they can sign up for free usage and review your projects. Unused portions of your credit can be used whenever a new project starts; the credit does not disappear simply because of inactivity over a certain time.

SimulationForDesign uses proven, commercial technologies for meshing and the underlying solver making the service highly robust. It accepts STEP and other 3D CAD formats for geometry input.

Visit SimulationForDesign today to learn more or to sign up for our services. Sign in using the free plan to check available examples and tutorials.