FEM CalculiX

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This page collects all informations about the Solver used by FreeCAD's FEM Module. This also contians the interface between the Solver and FreeCAD in Pre- as well as Postprocessing. At the moment (Mid 2015 and FreeCAD 0.16dev) the only supported Solver by the FEM Module is [CalculiX].

CalculiX

Depending on the operating System you are working with you need to install CalculiX first. Check out [FEM Install].

Interface

Interaction between FEM Module and CalculiX is done by text files. The FEM Module writes a CalculiX input file, starts CalculiX, logs the output of CalculiX and read the output files of CalculiX if they are available.

Preprocessing

The CalculiX uses abaqus input file format.


FEM Module