CAE Open Source Software
CAE open source software is very popular because it’s free, flexible, and transparent. It’s suitable for research and education.
CAE Open Source Simulation Solvers
CAE Mesh creation
CFmesh | https://sourceforge.net/projects/cfmesh/ |
Construct2d | https://sourceforge.net/projects/construct2d/ |
ENGRID | https://github.com/enGits/engrid/wiki |
GMSH | http://www.geuz.org/gmsh/ |
Netgen | https://sourceforge.net/projects/netgen-mesher/ |
snappyHexMesh (OpenFOAM) | https://www.openfoam.org |
Tetgen | http://wias-berlin.de/software/tetgen/ |
Triangle | http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~quake/triangle.html |
CAD, geometry operations, preprocessing
Blender | http://www.blender.org/ |
DeclaraCAD | https://declaracad.com/ |
DAFoam | https://dafoam.github.io/ |
DesignSPHysics | https://design.sphysics.org/ |
FreeCAD | https://www.freecadweb.org/ |
LibreCAD | https://librecad.org/ |
JSketcher | https://github.com/xibyte/jsketcher |
MeshLab | https://www.meshlab.net |
mimmo | https://optimad.github.io/mimmo/ |
OPEN CASCADE | https://www.opencascade.com/ |
OpenSCAD | https://openscad.org/index.html |
OpenVSP | http://openvsp.org/ |
PyGeM | https://github.com/mathLab/PyGeM |
QBlade | https://qblade.org/ |
QCAD | https://www.qcad.org/en/ |
Salome | http://www.salome-platform.org |
SUAVE | https://suave.stanford.edu/index.html |
TiGL | https://dlr-sc.github.io/tigl/ |
CAE Postprocessing
Math & data analysis
EngineeringPaper | https://engineeringpaper.xyz/ |
GeoGebra | https://www.geogebra.org/ |
GNU Octave | https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ |
OpenTURNS | https://openturns.github.io/www/index.html |
Scilab | https://www.scilab.org/ |
CAE Scripting
Each piece of software has its pros and cons. Usage of any of them depends on the particular project needs and many other circumstances (Physics, resources, skills, experience, …).
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