COMSOL Multiphysics is an engineering, design, and finite element analysis software environment for the modeling and simulation of any physics-based system.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux

ANSYS Mechanical is described as 'Enterprise is the flagship mechanical engineering software solution that uses finite element analysis (FEA) for structural analysis using the ANSYS Mechanical interface. It covers an enormous range of applications and comes complete with everything you need from' and is an app. There are more than 25 alternatives to ANSYS Mechanical for Windows, Linux and Mac. The best ANSYS Mechanical alternative is COMSOL Multiphysics. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Elmer. Other great apps like ANSYS Mechanical are ANSYS Workbench, Abaqus Unified FEA, SAP2000 and COSMOSWorks.
COMSOL Multiphysics is an engineering, design, and finite element analysis software environment for the modeling and simulation of any physics-based system.

Elmer is an open source multiphysical simulation software mainly developed by CSC - IT Center for Science (CSC). Elmer development was started 1995 in collaboration with Finnish Universities, research institutes and industry.


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Reliable structures, very precise drawings
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