Best CAD CAM CAE FEA FEM Software Packeges for Linux

Are you searching for a Free and Open source software for your CAD CAM or even CAM operations?

CAELinux is the best option for you!

Have a look at CAELinux latest stable version features

CAE Pre-post processors: Salome_Meca 2013.1

  Salome_Meca 2013.1 package consists of Salome 6.6, GMSH 2.5, Netgen 4.9, Tetgen, ElmerGUI 6.2, enGrid 1.4, Helyx-OS,   Discretizer / Discretizer::Setup, Paraview 3.10, CGX 2.6 applications for your pre processor computing operations

CAD-CAM Packeges: LibreCad,  SagCad, FreeCAD 0.13, Salome 6.6, Meshlab, Blender, OpenSCAD, PyCAM 0.6, GCAM, Dxf2Gcode, Inkscape Gcodetools, cadpy, Cura

Finite Element solvers: Code_Aster STA11.3 MPI, Elmer v6.2 MPI, Calculix 2.6 MT, Impact FEM MPI

Computational Fluid Dynamics: OpenFOAM v2.1.1 and Code-Saturne 3.0 both with CFD analysis wizard and tutorials , Elmer FEM Solver,  Gerris flow solver, Javafoil, Javaprop and XFLR5 air foil, propelers and airplane analysis tools.

Multibody dynamics : MBDyn with its Blender interface

Electronics: GEDA suite, Kicad, Fritzing, Arduino, dxf2gcode & cadpy for isolation milling

3D bio-medical image processing:  ITK-Snap with user filters, Image J, Voxel_Mesher

Mathematics &  programming : GNU Octave + QtOctave, Scilab, wxMaxima, R & Rkward, Python Scipy and Spyder, QT Creator, gcc, gfortran, g++, perl, python, ruby compilers/interpreters, Arduino 1.0 IDE


The best thing is - all of the above mentioned software packesges are free and in Built

You may download the Stable version (latest - 2013) over here http://www.caelinux.com/CMS/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=69&Itemid=41&layout=default


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CAE Linux tutorials in PDF
ELMER Tutorials Pdf
KiCAD Tutorial
QT Octave Tutorials
MESHLAB Tutorial in PDF

3D Structural Finite Element Software Calculix

3D Structural Finite Element Software Calculix 

 CalculiX can build, calculate and post-process Finite Element Models. The pre- and post-processor is an interactive 3D-tool using the openGL API. The solver is able to do linear and non-linear calculations. Static, dynamic and thermal solutions are available.

Calculix runs on both Linux and Windows Operating systems.

Anybody interested to have a free copy of calculix may download from below link.

  www.dhondt.de

 For calculix windows download, please check sourceforge link sourceforge.net/projects/calculixforwin