Training & Self-paced eLearning – FAQs

Training places will generally be allocated based on the order in which attendees sign up. For this reason, we always recommend booking for your desired date as early as possible.

As long as a coures still has free places, it can be booked.

CADFEM training courses - Further education according to your needs

• Training: In our repertoire you will find more than 110 theme-specific topics for simulation users at basic, advanced and expert levels. You will benefit from a wide range of dates, professionally supervised exercises and stimulating discussions with other participants and our experienced instructors. In one of the CADFEM training centers near you or as a live online training.
• In-house Training: You determine the learning objectives, participants, date and location individually. We combine the appropriate learning units and examples from our range of trainings according to your training needs: From over 800 training modules, we jointly create a didactically coordinated training concept for your employees. In-house courses can also be held in one of the CADFEM training centers or as a Live Online Training.

You can choose from the following training formats:

• Face-to-face Training: visit us at one of the CADFEM training centers & benefit from the focused, interactive learning atmosphere. Equipped with high quality technology including virtual cloud machines for exercises and appealing break rooms, the exchange with top-class lecturers and the other participants is emphasized here. 
• Live Online Training: Experience the training in digital live format & in small groups from your office or home office. You dial into the online training on the date you have booked. A speaker guides you interactively through the course. You can easily complete exercises in your browser using the included cloud. By sharing screen contents, your questions will be answered at any time in the usual quality.
• eLearning: Learn according to your personal schedule, individually & with maximum flexibility. All course content is available on demand and you can learn when, where and for how long it suits you. A varied and interactive course concept motivates you to learn. For the hands-on exercises, you get uncomplicated access to the appropriate Ansys training license via the preconfigured Cloud. 

CADFEM training courses are designed to enable every participant to achieve the learning objective. To do so, we put together the appropriate number of 90-minute learning units. If multiple employees in your company already have relevant prior knowledge at a comparable level or you wish to combine specific contents, a customized course is the right choice for you.

Straight after you sign up, an automatic confirmation of receipt will be sent to the email addresses you provided. Once you have successfully verified the data you provided, you will receive your personalized sign-up confirmation, containing further information on course fees, the billing address, etc., by email within two to three working days.  

As soon as the minimum number of attendees has been reached, you will receive a final training confirmation containing further information. If you have booked an on-site training, we recommend that you wait until you have received this final confirmation before booking your travel and accommodation.

If the minimum number of attendees is not reached, we reserve the right to cancel the training seven days before it is due to start at the latest. We are happy to inform you on changing your booking to an alternative date. Please note that we accept no liability for hotel or travel bookings that attendees have already made.

The invoice will be sent to the invoice recipient indicated in the booking immediately after the last course day. Please inform us of any changes to the billing address by the course start date at the latest.

Cancellation is only possible under certain conditions; please refer to the current GTC for information regarding this matter. Alternatively, you have the one-off, free option of changing the booking of a confirmed training place to a substitute attendee. For organizational reasons, the new attendee needs to sign up for the training online, by providing corresponding information under the “Substitute attendee for Mr./Ms. First Name Surname” comment. If this training date is already fully booked, please contact our training team.

CADFEM offers many training courses as self-paced eLearning (Learning on Demand) option with identical content. eLearning  is a form of knowledge transfer that puts you, the participant, in control of when, where, and how often you engage in training. The focus is always professional simulation with Ansys, delivered with competence by CADFEM speakers who you will already know from our instructure led trainings. Courses are modular with a didactic approach, modern and varied, and include videos, tutorials and software demonstrations. 

You can view travel information as well as hotel recommendations on our respective location information site. Please consider that booking and payment are handled directly with the hotel by you or your company.

• Our locations in Germany
• Our locations in Austria
• Our locations in France
• Our locations in Ireland
• Our locations in Switzerland
• Our locations in the United Kingdom

For CADFEM, the collaboration between practice and science has always been a central aspect in developing upcoming generations of engineers. That’s why we offer discounted enrollment options whenever possible. You can find our current pricing conditions in the course descriptions. By the way, have you heard about the special 50% discount for university members and our Simulation Portal for Students with free Ansys courses?

To get a clear impression of our online learning format, we offer you a trial allowing you access to the starting module of an eLearning course of your choice. No costs, no cancellation period or anything similar. Moreover, with this free test access you can check all the technical requirements for a smooth learning process. You can easily request the free module from any eLearning course.

Each online course day comprises four eLearning modules. You should ideally allow 90 to 120 minutes of uninterrupted learning time for each module. This will allow you to acquire the knowledge provided by a module and to consolidate it through quiz questions and Ansys exercises. By dividing each module into micro learning units, you can also make good use of smaller time windows, such as on your commute.

Prerequisite for the use of the eLearning courses is the use of a personalized access to the CADFEM learning platform.

When purchasing an eLearning course, access to the learning platform is 365 days.

As a subscription user, access to the learning platform starts and ends with the start and end of the subscription.

With the purchase of a further learning product (learning subscription, training, eLearning), you will receive renewed access to all previously booked content for 365 days, starting from the start date of the new learning product.

Videos, presentations and quizzes are only available on the learning platform. However, Ansys exercise files, sample solutions, simulation projects you have created yourself, the QuickReferenceGuides (QRGs) as a compact overview of the module contents, and your personal notes can be downloaded.

Your user account is created for you personally; the accessible data and content may only be used by you in accordance with our terms and conditions of use. Your personal notes, progress, and results are saved to your account and can be synchronized between your end devices (desktop, tablet, smartphone) at any time.

If you buy your eLearning separately or book it as part of the Learning Subscription Premium, you do not need a license or any special hardware. Your user account includes a ready-to-use virtual simulation PC with up-to-date software licenses. To work on Ansys exercises, you only need an up-to-date browser and adequate internet connection. The virtual machine runs in a powerful cloud; the specific period of use depends on the course that you have enrolled on.

If your eLearning includes a training cloud (single buy, Learning Subscription Premium) applies: For each course day, you get 20 days of access to your personal machine, with a contingency of 10 hours. You can start and stop the machine yourself. The time allowed is intentionally generous, so you do not feel under pressure while working through the exercises. If this contingency is exhausted, you can order our Hardware as a Service products as and when needed, for added computing capacity.

A flexible and attractive possibility is the purchase of a CADFEM Learning Subscription. This allows your employees to attend as many classroom, live online & eLearning courses and further contents as they wish within 365 days.