Hi Robert01,
In essence, the previous 3,000 free core hours are still available when one joins up.
For new members now, as per ChuckMulder notes, only 10 successful full term simulations are now available and a reduction in simulation types with compressible flows and possibly others like the new Sonic solver are not available under the free community licence.
Simscale is a great initially free product and evolving and developing a user base similar to Fusion 360 as per Chuck’s comments. I’m hopeful one day less expensive hobby priced packages like Fusion 360 offers will be rolled out from Simscale and packages to suit those commercial business. For me its an expensive option for my hobby interests in CFD simulations, if I wish to continue. Currently the only option for me as a non-commercial user is to buy the full suite of simulation solver types that I’ll possibly will never use to any great extent. Maybe the option to provide the MacDonald’s type approach of huge clients and low fees will allow Simscale to dominate the market and lower CFD prices for those people like drone simulators and F1 car enthusiasts etc and hobbyists to make use of the product.
My simulation free community time is almost at an end…but hopefully I can help others with their simulation setups in the future.