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Simulation (FEA & CFD)Structural and thermomechanical FEA solver developed by EDF
- Licence
- GPL-3.0
- Status
- Open source
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CalculiX
Free three-dimensional structural finite-element program
CalculiX is a free FEA package with a solver (CCX) that uses an Abaqus-like input format, and a pre/post-processor (CGX). It covers static, dynamic, thermal and nonlinear analysis, and is used as a solver by FreeCAD and PrePoMax.
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