Ansys Discovery | 3D Engineering Design Software
Transform Your Design Process with Real-Time Simulation
Test ideas, iterate rapidly, and optimize designs with confidence—all within a single, user-friendly platform.
Take 3D Design Further with Real-Time Design Exploration
Traditional 3D design workflows can hold you back, creating delays and unnecessary hurdles:
- Slow Validation Cycles: Dependence on physical prototypes, external teams, or costly, complex software creates bottlenecks.
- Compromised Decisions: Slow processes force trade-offs between speed and accuracy, leaving decisions uncertain.
- Smarter Design Tools: Real-time simulation and interactive tools enable instant testing, validation, and optimization.
Introducing Ansys Discovery: 3D CAD with Simulation
Ansys Discovery empowers engineers to bridge the gap between static design and dynamic, informed innovation. With features like instant feedback on every adjustment, you can test multiple concepts, see real-time performance impacts, and make confident, data-driven decisions—all within a single, intuitive platform. By combining modeling, simulation, and validation, Discovery allows you to create confidently and innovate faster, redefining what’s possible in engineering.
“With Ansys Discovery, we were able to check results in real time like a real test, in terms of time to prepare analysis, time before checking results, and ease of studying parameters and variations.”
— Yutaro Shimoda, Honda Motor Company
Why Ansys Discovery?
Ansys Discovery revolutionizes the design process by integrating simulation, modeling, and validation into one seamless workflow. Here’s how it can transform your work:
Accelerate Iteration and Reduce Development Time
Discovery’s real-time simulation provides instant feedback on design changes, allowing you to test and refine ideas rapidly. By eliminating lengthy delays, Discovery reduces the need for physical prototypes and helps you bring products to market faster.
“We used to check the performance of multiple designs with 3D-printed prototypes. Now, we can evaluate designs in Discovery first, reducing tests and workload.”
— Yutaro Shimoda, Honda Motor Company
Fault-Tolerant Setup
Discovery’s technology handles complex geometry with ease, so you can skip time-consuming cleanup and jump straight into simulation. Automated preprocessing simplifies setup, keeping you in the creative flow.
Make Confident Decisions with Instant Insight
With Discovery, design and analysis happen simultaneously. Instant feedback on each adjustment means you’re never working in the dark—you can see the impact of changes in real time, allowing you to make confident, data-backed decisions.
Optimize for Real-World Performance
Discovery combines structural, thermal, fluid, and vibration simulations, giving you a complete view of your design’s performance under real-world conditions. Test for multiple forces and environmental factors, ensuring your product is optimized for success.
“We hope to analyze vehicle contact with water or snow and evaluate more events by improving the reproducibility of shapes, like local gaps and steps.”
— Yutaro Shimoda, Honda Motor Company
Integrated 3D Modeling and Simulation
Discovery integrates smoothly with other Ansys tools and any CAD system, making collaboration effortless. Share geometry, materials, and simulation setups with your team, ensuring alignment and enabling faster, more informed decisions.
Collaborate Seamlessly Across Teams
Discovery integrates smoothly with other Ansys tools and any CAD system, making collaboration effortless. Share geometry, materials, and simulation setups with your team, ensuring alignment and enabling faster, more informed decisions.
Ready to start designing with real-time simulation?
Ansys Discovery Highlights
Ansys Discovery empowers engineers to resolve key design challenges at the start of the process with unmatched speed and precision. By removing delays associated with traditional simulations, Discovery enhances productivity and allows teams to dedicate more time to innovation and optimizing product performance.
What’s New
July 2025
AI-Powered In-Product Guidance with Ansys Engineering Copilot
Ansys Discovery now includes Ansys Engineering Copilot, an AI assistant built into the interface. It delivers real-time, context-aware support using trusted Ansys resources, helping users resolve issues, explore simulation behavior, and access expert guidance directly within the product.
Advanced Structural Simulation with Random Vibration
Random vibration enables users to assess how structures respond to unpredictable dynamic loads, such as those caused by road conditions or machinery movement. Engineers can quickly assess the impact of real-world vibration environments during early design stages, improving durability insights and decision-making within Discovery
Precise Fluids Meshing with Body of Influence and Sharp Edge Capture
Discovery 2025 R2 takes fast, fault-tolerant simulation to the next level with enhanced mesh control for fluids. The New Body of Influence and Sharp Edge Capture tools enable users to refine the mesh in critical regions, such as inlets, outlets, and thermal zones, without increasing complexity. Get more accurate results, better insight into flow behavior, and smarter GPU memory usage, all within Discovery’s real-time environment.
Capabilities
Accelerate Product Design with Upfront Simulation
Addressing key design challenges early in the development process can significantly cut engineering time and reduce costs associated with physical prototypes. Ansys Discovery enables organizations to achieve a stronger ROI by streamlining the design process. By minimizing the need for excessive prototyping, testing, and engineering change orders, Discovery helps engineers focus on innovation and creativity.
With Ansys Discovery’s 3D simulation tools, engineers can quickly prepare models, experiment with design variations, and explore multiple concepts in real time. This upfront simulation approach provides deeper product insights, leading to faster, more efficient workflows and superior design outcomes.
Key Features
Simplify your 3D modeling and simulation tasks with a range of Discovery software capabilities.
Structural & Modal Analysis
Harness the power of real-time simulation with Ansys Discovery to explore structural performance and optimize your designs. Experience near-instant feedback on vibration modes and resonant frequencies, empowering rapid iterations and deeper design insights. By removing traditional simulation hurdles, Discovery enables swift evaluations of complex geometries, delivering actionable results as soon as loads are applied.
Fluid Analysis
Take advantage of live physics simulations in Ansys Discovery to understand fluid dynamics quickly. Whether exploring internal or external flows, Discovery’s integrated Fluent solver offers high-fidelity simulations with ease, allowing you to achieve reliable results without disrupting your workflow. Dive deeper into fluid behavior with enhanced tools for porous media and other critical analysis factors.
Topology Optimization
Ansys Discovery offers a breakthrough in interactive topology optimization, making it easy to identify innovative design solutions. Beyond speed, this tool incorporates manufacturing constraints and can address diverse load cases across various physics types. From structural to modal simulations, Discovery empowers engineers to maximize design efficiency across a wide array of applications.
Solid-Fluid Thermal Analysis
Model and simulate heat transfer seamlessly within your 3D designs using Ansys Discovery’s real-time capabilities. Adjust materials, test configurations, and visualize temperature distribution effortlessly, leveraging conjugate heat transfer (CHT) for precise insights into thermal and fluid performance. Solve complex design challenges with ease using multiphysics simulation tools.
Geometry Modeling
Geometry creation and editing are vital to effective design exploration, and Ansys Discovery simplifies this process with intuitive tools. Modify your designs and immediately see the results, minimizing iterations. With support for native CAD formats and seamless updates, Discovery offers a dynamic solution for accelerating design workflows and achieving optimal results.
Electromagnetics
Quickly analyze high-frequency electromagnetic interactions to optimize antenna placement and functionality. Ansys Discovery, powered by SpaceClaim, streamlines geometry editing and delivers fast insights into antenna behavior, making it ideal for early-stage evaluations before diving into detailed studies in Ansys HFSS.
Parameter Studies
Optimize your designs with parameter studies in Ansys Discovery. This feature enables you to automate evaluations of multiple design variables, uncover trade-offs, and identify the best-performing options. The straightforward process lets you test a wide range of configurations efficiently, helping you gain actionable insights and achieve design excellence faster.
