Since 2021 Salome-Meca has been released as a ‘Scibian9 Singularity container’, requiring the singularity environment to be installed before running the program. With this change, the program is available on all Linux distributions and on Windows systems (using WSL). It was supposed to be convenient and accessible, but the reality is different and many users…
Hi, welcome to you after a short break, hopefully I will now get back to posting regularly 🙂 While writing article PrePoMax – the best open source FEA software? I tried to answer this question and I am still not sure of the answer. However, I can write with certainty that PrePoMax is currently the…
I often read that free programs for FEA are good, but not for shell calculations. That’s where you need a proven, paid solver. In this article I want to check this, “Are open source programs (Code Aster and Calculix) suitable for shell calculations?”. Shell elements Shell elements are a type of finite element used in…
Hi, there are now 3 videos available on my youtube channel where I show how to do simple analyses in the free and easy to use PrePoMax. 2D Example – Plate with elliptical hole The first video is a 2D analysis. The geometry is prepared in the Sharper module of the Salome-Meca software (made in…
Hi there, new releases of Salome Meca (numbered 2022) are available at https://code-aster.org/ in the Download section and under the Salome-Meca tab. The last one is published in January 2023. At the moment there is no information about the new features introduced in this version. I have checked that the latest Salome Meca has a…
In an article with free FEM packages, I listed three programs worth looking into (link to article): Salome Meca, PrePoMax and Freecad Workbench FEM. In today’s article I will describe the second of these. About PrePoMax PrePoMax is a pre and post processor for the Calculix solver. It has recently become more popular and is…