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Simulia Suite: Versions and Prices
| Version | Price |
|---|---|
| Simulia 2024 Suite (Abaqus/Isight/Fe-safe/Tosca) | |
| Simulia 2023 Suite (Abaqus/Isight/Fe-safe/Tosca) | |
| Simulia 2022 Suite (Abaqus/Isight/Fe-safe/Tosca) | |
| Abaqus 2021 | |
| Abaqus 2020 HF3 |
Abaqus/CAE connects model setup, Standard and Explicit solving, and result review
Abaqus/CAE provides the preprocessing and postprocessing environment around the Abaqus analysis products. Abaqus/Standard is the implicit solver for static, low-speed dynamic and other procedures where an implicit solution is appropriate, while Abaqus/Explicit is designed for short transient events and strongly nonlinear behavior such as severe contact.
The two solvers share the Abaqus/CAE modeling and visualization environment and can pass simulation state between Standard and Explicit workflows. Analysis results are written to an output database for review in the Visualization module.
Suite-labelled offers add Isight, fe-safe and Tosca around the Abaqus analysis core
The suite-labelled offers explicitly name Abaqus, Isight, fe-safe and Tosca as their package components. Isight builds automated simulation process flows and design studies; fe-safe evaluates fatigue life from analysis results; Tosca Structure performs topology, shape, sizing and bead optimization based on finite element analysis.
The Abaqus-only offers list Abaqus rather than the four-product suite. Keep that package distinction in the purchase decision instead of assuming that Isight, fe-safe or Tosca is included with an Abaqus-only row.
Abaqus milestones change solver, HPC and scripting workflows across the offered families
| Release family | Abaqus workflow breakpoint |
|---|---|
| 2021 | Abaqus/Standard added nonlinear load cases within a single job, reducing the need to split those load cases across separate jobs. |
| 2022 | Abaqus/Explicit added hybrid execution that combines MPI processes with multiple threads per process for NUMA-oriented compute systems. |
| 2023 | Beam-to-solid submodeling was introduced in the 2023 FD03 family for driving a detailed solid submodel from a global beam model. |
| 2024 | Abaqus Python and Abaqus/CAE moved from Python 2.7 to Python 3.10, changing the scripting environment for automation and plug-ins. |
Older CAE and ODB databases require an upgrade when opened in a newer Abaqus release
Abaqus/CAE model databases use the .cae format and analysis results use .odb output databases. When a model or output database from a previous release is opened in a newer Abaqus release, Abaqus requires the database to be upgraded; writable databases are converted with a backup of the original, while read-only output databases can be converted to a temporary copy.
This matters when an existing project archive must move forward to a newer offered release: plan for database conversion rather than treating an older CAE or ODB file as an unchanged current-release database.