FEMbyGEN Workbench

Introduction
FEMbyGEN is a FreeCAD addon that provides a simple interface to choose the best design by showing the structural behavior of your designs in a screen for parametric analysis and multiple loading situations.



Intended work-flow

 * 1) Click initiate button to create parameters for parametric analysis
 * 2) By alias button please match size and name of the parameters.
 * 3) Associate the spreadsheet and your model. (Spreadsheet Workbench)
 * 4) Set up analysis model(s) by FEM module
 * 5) Switch again to the workbench FEMbyGEN and by Generate button, create all generations.
 * 6) Click on the button FEA and Start FEA to run simulations.
 * 7) You can check simulation files by clicking rows of the related generation
 * 8) Click on the button Results to get results to the master file.
 * 9) Summotion of all loadcases reseults also will be under Results in tree view.

Features

 * Parametric FEM analysis
 * Supports multiple loadcases
 * Summarize all the results in a table
 * Sort results by your output weight
 * Summation of all loadcases

Features to be supported in the future

 * Topology Analysis
 * Taguchi Method to generate parametric variations

Limitations

 * Works only for Calculix Solver

Addon Manager
FEMbyGEN can easily be installed via the FreeCAD Addon Manager from the  menu. FEMbyGEN is under active development and will get new features frequently. Therefore you should update it regularly using also the menu. The FEMbyGEN code is hosted and developed.

Manual
See How to install additional workbenches

Prerequisites

 * FreeCAD 0.19 or newer