Very useful reply Mohan. ;) On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 4:21 PM, Mohan Sundaram <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
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