Design & Simulation Engineering
BUILT WITH CATIA & SIMULIA
Take your designs further with simulation, for faster, higher-quality product development.
3 plans from $11,188/year
Simulate Your Product Today, Avoid Rework Tomorrow
In an accelerating business environment, where your first misstep can also be your last, understanding how a product will perform is essential to avoid late-stage failure and keep projects on track.
That’s why Dassault Systèmes 3DEXPERIENCE® PLM Express Design & Simulation Engineering gives your teams the solutions they need to build simulation capabilities into the workflow from day one. Its cloud-based model makes it a solution that scales as your business does – without adding IT complexity.
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Simulated Environments, Real Outcomes
Validate Designs Earlier
Validate sooner, launch sooner. With earlier insight into how a product will behave, decisions become faster
and higher quality.

Accelerate Product Development
Less trial-and-error, more right-first-time. Thanks to integrated design and simulation workflows, that can be augmented with Industrial AI, teams can significantly accelerate time-to-market.

Improve Product Performance
The highest-quality products have validation in their DNA. By combining design and simulation early, teams can speed up the development process while ensuring the product performs to specifications.

Reduce Development Costs
Simulation software saves you time spent re-designing products, cuts back on material waste and minimizes physical testing — reducing costs across projects.





Design and Simulation Solutions That Scale With Your Team
Simulate design scenarios across multiple domains, from simple linear to advanced nonlinear simulations, with offers scaled and tailored to your business.
Buy directly online from our packages below, or speak with our team for tailored support.
Essential
Best for linear simulation.
A set of core design and simulation tools ready to transform your ability to deliver.
$11,188/year
$932/month, billed annually
15-Day Money-Back Policy
Per user (excl. local tax)
- Unified Modeling & Simulation (MODSIM)
- Create Simulation Models from CAD
- Flexible Parametrization and Automation
Master
Best for complex and high-performance designs.
Simulate more complex structural behaviors to enhance design at scale.
$16,844/year
$1,403/month, billed annually
15-Day Money-Back Policy
Per user (excl. local tax)
Everything included in Essential plus:
- Advanced nonlinear structural and thermal simulation
- Guided assistant for designers to build “real-life” simulation scenarios of complex products
- Automated simulation model creation for large assemblies
Elite
Advanced structural simulation and democratization.
Power, depth and scalability of complex simulations.
$28,986/year
$2,415/month, billed annually
15-Day Money-Back Policy
Per user (excl. local tax)
Everything included in Master plus:
- Complete structural simulation and failure prediction
- Nonlinear dynamic simulation: crash, impact, drop
- Parametric design exploration for “what-if” scenarios and trade-off analysis
Compare Plans and Features
- 3D Mechanical Engineering
- From Design to Manufacturing
- Simulation Capabilities
- Productivity & Optimization
- Cloud Collaboration & Compute
| Feature | Essential | Master | Elite |
|---|---|---|---|
| $11,188 /year | $16,844 /year | $28,986 /year | |
| Part and Assembly Design to Create Advanced Mechanical Products and Parts, from Conceptual to Detailed Phases | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Generative Sketch Constraints (AI) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Functional Design and Advanced Feature-based Approach | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Direct Modeling Technology | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Update Strategies at Part/Feature Levels | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Quickly Design Generative Shapes with Wireframe or Surfacic Components | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Design of Complex Mechanisms to Manage Their Movement | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| AI-Driven Generative Functional Surfaces (Mechanical Interfaces) | – | – | ✓ |
| Feature | Essential | Master | Elite |
|---|---|---|---|
| $11,188 /year | $16,844 /year | $28,986 /year | |
| Multi-discipline Product Engineering Definition Management | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Integrated CAD & BOM Management on a Single, Unified Product Structure | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Real-time Integrated Deliverable Based Planning with Product Development Data | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| 3D Mock-Up Review | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Streamline Sheet Metal Design & Manufacturing | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Multi-discipline Engineering Definition Lifecycle Management | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Product Structure Navigation & Cross Highlighting | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Feature | Essential | Master | Elite |
|---|---|---|---|
| $11,188 /year | $16,844 /year | $28,986 /year | |
| Linear structural behavior analysis with Abaqus Solvers | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Linear dynamics analysis: frequency, buckling with ABAQUS solver | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Flexible parametrization and automation | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Results Analytics | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Thermal simulation (steady state) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Thermal advanced (transient, coupled with stress) simulation | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| Nonlinear static structural analysis with ABAQUS solver | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| Geometry idealization for advanced studies | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| Nonlinear dynamic simulation: crash, impact, drop | – | – | ✓ |
| Combined thermal, electrochemical and structural simulation | – | – | ✓ |
| Fatigue and product life perdition | ✓ | ||
| Material parameter calibration | ✓ |
| Feature | Essential | Master | Elite |
|---|---|---|---|
| $11,188 /year | $16,844 /year | $28,986 /year | |
| Unified Modeling and Simulation (MODSIM) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Create Simulation Models from CAD | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Productivity Boost with Engineering Templates | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Flexible Parameterization and Automation | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Parametric Design Studies | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Define Constraints and Targets | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Advanced Parametric Studies | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| Requirements and Test Case Management | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| Design Validation with Minimal Computational Resources | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| Reusable test methods with linked evidence | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| Simulation templates for web-based dashboards | – | – | ✓ |
| Process automation and integration of multiple simulation scenarios | – | – | ✓ |
| Performance trade-off study of complex (multi-objective) what-ifs scenarios | – | – | ✓ |
| Feature | Essential | Master | Elite |
|---|---|---|---|
| $11,188 /year | $16,844 /year | $28,986 /year | |
| 3DEXPERIENCE Platform Social & Structured Collaboration Foundations | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Business Process Workflow Execution | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Web-Based 3D Data Visualization | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Browser-based 3D Visualization and Geometric Analysis Tools | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Perform Linear Analysis with Abaqus-solvers on 4 Cores on Cloud or Locally | ✓ | – | – |
| Perform advanced simualtion with Abaqus-solvers on 8 Cores on Cloud or Locally | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| Management of simulation and test cases with traceable projects and tasks | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| Web Based simulation execution from a dashboard for non-expert users | – | – | ✓ |
| Drag-and-drop process building to automate complex simulation execution | – | – | ✓ |
Up and Running on the Day of Purchase
Your business doesn’t have time for IT headaches and onboarding inertia. That’s why:
- Access is provisioned instantly: no IT setup, no installation delays, no waiting
- Onboarding resources are included as part of your subscription
- Your certified partner is available free-of-charge for additional support
Delivering Real Results
Sujan Contitech
“Using SIMULIA, designers can now accurately predict the stiffness of rubber components, right within the 3DEXPERIENCE platform. This has reduced our design cycles by around 20%, saving us a lot of time lost in iterations.”
Hemant Kamble, General Manager Research and Development, Sujan Contitech
3DEXPERIENCE PLM Express: A Whole-Lifecycle Solution
Design Engineering
Auto-generate best-in-class, AI-enabled designs and model-based systems to cut rework and accelerate time-to-market.
Governance & Lifecycle Management
Industry-leading PLM solutions that unify product, data, processes and teams to boost innovation, efficiency and profitability from concept to market.
Manufacturing Engineering
Drive precision and innovation with optimized machining, process engineering, robotics and virtual factory simulation.
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