[ Thanks to J.Cugnoni
for this link. ]
Do you wish that one day you could get rid of all these
excessively expensive engineering / simulation softwares and forget
the “I-don’t-know-what-is-in-the-black-box” nightmare? You think
that this dream will never come true? But you are wrong: one
solution already exists and it’s called CAELinux: an open source
LiveDVD distribution dedicated to professionnal computer-aided
engineering & finite element simulations. Now, you need just to
insert the CAELinux LiveDVD in your computer to turn it into a
professionnal CAE workstation in five minutes: no installation
required, no licence fees!
Based on the open-source CAE softwares Salomé &
Code_Aster, you can load your CAD geometry (STEP/IGES) in
Salomé and start partitionning and meshing your problem in
just five minutes. Then you can simulate incredibly complexe
physics with the “nuclear application” certified FE solver
Code_Aster: non-linear thermo-mechanics, coupled fluid-structure
dynamics, sismic / non-linear explicit dynamics, contacts,
visco-plasticity, in other words all that you could imagine can be
simulated with Code_Aster! Then reload your results files in
Salomé to post-process your data in 3D… And don’t forget
all these features are based on open-source / free softwares, so
now you don’t have to pay for excessively expensive licenses. The
features / programs included in this first beta release are the
following (screenshots):
- LiveDVD distribution based on PClinuxOS
9 - Runs directly from the DVD without any installation
- Optionnal installation to hard disk in 3 easy steps
- Dedicated to CAE and more specifically to finite element
simulation - Includes the new 3D pre-/post processor SALOME (GPL,
developped by CEA/EDF/EADS, France) and the powerfull finite
element solver Code-Aster (GPL, developped by EDF, France) - Offers several scientific tools like GNU Octave & Scilab
and a full range of developpement tools / compilers.
If you are interested, this new project needs your help to build
a strong community of users/testers; so jump here for more
information: www.caelinux.com.