Simulation

Easier to Get Started

Onshape delivers simulation in the assembly environment, so you can easily simulate full assemblies, not just parts. Assembly mates – such as fastened, revolute, slider and more – automatically translate into simulation kinematics, dramatically simplifying your FEA analysis while ensuring an accurate physical representation of your assembly.

Onshape Simulation is easy and efficient for full assembly analysis and does not require defeaturing or meshing. You can apply loads and constraints directly to either full parts or individual part faces.

Faster Results, Faster Decisions

Be agile and get to a final design faster, change your assembly configuration, modify a part or update a global variable and without any additional effort simulation results refresh automatically.

Seamlessly switch between visualizing stress analysis results and editing your part in the context of your CAD assembly allowing you to iterate quickly with informed mechanical guidance.

Unified Experience

Simulation is built into the familiar Onshape Assembly environment and directly uses the full assembly's parts, materials and mates offering a unified and efficient FEA experience.

As part of your Onshape Document, simulations are version controlled with built-in product data management (PDM) and can be securely shared instantly with other users for better collaboration and better decisions.

Cloud-Native Simulation

Onshape Simulation is a unique, proprietary, and cloud-native approach to finite element analysis (FEA), offering designers the ability to perform and share structural analysis from any web browser, anytime and anywhere.

Simulations are part of your Onshape Document, making it easy to leverage high-performance cloud computing for fast and interactive FEA – without leaving your design environment or requiring any specialized hardware.

Async Simulation

Offload compute-intensive structural analyses to the background, while you continue modeling uninterrupted queuing up to 50 concurrent jobs. These jobs execute from specific document versions using named positions or a version’s default position, ensuring all computed results are permanently stored in the Results and history table. This functionality automatically preserves an immutable, version-controlled record of design performance without tying up your active workspace.