On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 2:15 PM, John Christopher <[email protected]> wrote: > They wanted to know the Linux OpenSource equivalent of AutoCAD, ProE and > Ansys and other mechanical related software.
Difficult call. Acad equivalents are QCAD, FreeCAD etc. I found QCAD good. Draftsight is another free but not open source from Dassault Systemes. For solid modelling BRLCAD is touted but falls short by miles. FEM needs specialised element libraries while the FEM solvers themselves are simple and OSS programs exist. Without proper element libraries, the FEM/FEA software is useless. Finding equivalents of Ansys/NASTRAN/ABAQUS etc is next to impossible. OSS would have separate solvers for static/linear and non-linear/dynamic analyses. All these guys have attractive educational licences. -- Mohan Sundaram _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
