PyCAM - Open Source CNC Software FREE

PyCAM is an Open Source CAM - Toolpath Generation for 3-Axis CNC machining

Supported Operating System: Windows, Mac, Linux 

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CAM softwares that runs on Linux OS Like Ubuntu SuSe Debian Redhat etc
CAM CNC Softwares that runs on MAC OS


Advantages of PyCAM

• interactive 3D model view
• estimate machine time for each toolpath
• scale, move, rotate, flip and transform 2D/3D models
• 2D projection
• multi-layered 2D models
• extrusion of 2D models with configurable slopes

Disadvantages of PyCAM

• It does not have a CAD modeler,
• 3D models need to be in STL
• 2D models in DXF or SVG.

DOWNLOAD PyCAM : http://pycam.sourceforge.net/download.html

PyCAM for Windows : http://sourceforge.net/projects/pycam/files/pycam/0.5.1/pycam-0.5.1.1_standalone.exe/download



PyCAM MAC OS Installation : http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/pycam/index.php?title=Installation_MacOS

PyCAM Debian Linux packages : http://sourceforge.net/projects/pycam/files/pycam/0.5.1/pycam_0.5.1-1_all.deb/download


Other PyCAM Training Videos

Pycam .STL file manipulation and Tool Generation : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANBziHVdpW4

Sending PyCAM G-Code : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDUfZmfSrEk

PyCAM multi-layered 2D models : https://vimeo.com/21502122


 

Simple CAD program ZCAD Free Download

ZCAD - Simple CAD Program for Mechanical engineers

ZCAD features

2D and 3D drawing
Fast OpenGL rendering
Cross Platform
Support DXF files
SHX, TTF fonts support
Polar tracking
Object snap

ZCAD Free Download page : http://shamangrad.ru/project.php?act=view&prj=zcad

Free CFD Software for Windows Open FLOWER

Open FLOWER Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Software is a wonderful solver for turbulent unsteady incompressible Navier-Stokes equations.

Open FLOWER can be downloaded Free from the source forge net  (largest open source code library)

Use this link to download free CFD software OpenFLOWER

http://sourceforge.net/projects/openflower/

The software is available in 2 languages , English and French

Developers of openFLOWER has used C plus Plus program to write the code


Free CFD softwares
Opensource cfd analysis softwares
CFD Softwares for engineers
Engineering students free download softwares
educational cfd computational fluid dynamics softwares

Math Calculators for engineers free download

Math Calculators, FREE Engineering Calculators for Engineers and Students

Calculators for solving complex equations and formulas in field of Electrical, Mechanical, Chemical, Electronics, Civil, Metallurgy, Oil & Gas, Optical, Plastics, Ceramics, Physics, Maths

Standard functions: acos asin atan cos sin tan deg rad exp ln log round sqrt abs cosh sinh tanh pi last

Download your free version from http://www.hyperionics.com/downloads/math234.zip


Free calculators, converters math calculations mechanical calculations engineering calculations
design calculations estimation calculations

FEMM Finite Element Method Magnetics free download

FEMM Finite Element Method Magnetics free download for windows

 A Windows based finite element solver for 2D and axisymmetric magnetic, electrostatic, heat flow, and current flow problems with graphical pre- and post-processors.

Download your free copy of FEMM

32 Bit version free download :  http://www.femm.info/Archives/bin/femm42bin_win32.exe

64 Bit version free download :  http://www.femm.info/Archives/bin/femm42bin_x64.exe

Download Autolisp for Free

AutoLISP is a programming language designed for extending and customizing the functionality of AutoCAD.

It is based on the LISP programming language.

AutoLISP is "inBuilt" for use with the full version of AutoCAD and it does not work with AutoCAD LT.

AutoLISP code does not need to be compiled, so you can enter the code at a Command line and immediately see the results.

Means NO NEED to download AutoLISP and you can use from your command line with your full version of autocad.

Thank you!

OpenFOAM Tutorial in PDF Download

OpenFOAM is a free, open source CFD software package developed by OpenCFD Ltd. It has an extensive range of features to solve anything from complex fluid flows involving chemical reactions, turbulence and heat transfer, to solid dynamics and electromagnetics. It includes tools for meshing, notably snappyHexMesh, a parallelised mesher for complex CAD geometries, and for pre- and post-processing.

The best thing is OpenFORM is free to download and use - you may also download its source code in C plus plus to customize it for your Organization.

Some of the solver capabilities of openFOAM are as lsted below

Solver for Incompressible flows
Solver for Multiphase flows
Solver for Combustion
Solver for Buoyancy-driven flows
Solver for Conjugate heat transfer
Solver for Compressible flows
Solver for Particle methods (DEM, DSMC, MD)

And the technology used in OpenFOAM

Numerical method
Linear system solvers
ODE system solvers
Parallel computing
Dynamic mesh

This software is well suited for beginners in CFD  - Computational Fluid Dynamics as well as developers.


Download your copy of OpenFOAM Tutorial in PDF at http://foam.sourceforge.net/docs/Guides-a4/UserGuide.pdf



Mesh Generation Tutorials in PDF
Developers tutorials
OpenFOAM C plus plus editing tutorials in PDF
Free Download open foam softwares

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


to be updated : -

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

Best Free CAD Modeling and Rendering Softwares

Best Free CAD Modeling and rendering Softwares

1. FreeCAD  

FreeCAD is a parametric 3D modeler, In Parametric Modeling, Features are defined to be parametric shapes associated with attributes such as intrinsic geometric parameters (length, width, depth etc.), position and orientation, geometric tolerances, material properties, and references to other features

You may download the latest version of freeCAD from 

http://sourceforge.net/projects/free-cad/files/latest/download

FreeCAD is based on OpenCasCade, a powerful geometry kernel, features an Open Inventor-compliant
3D scene representation model provided by the Coin 3D library, and a broad Python API.

If you are interested to contribute to the FreeCAD , you may download the source code from

http://sourceforge.net/p/free-cad/code/ci/master/tree/


2. Blender

Blender is an open source project licensed under the GNU GPL. All code is written in C, C++ and Python

Some of main features of free software blender are given below

1. Photorealistic Rendering - HDR lighting support
2. Fast Modeling - Keyboard shortcuts for a fast workflow
3. Realistic Materials - Open Shading Language (OSL) support
4. Fast Rigging - Envelope, skeleton and automatic skinning
5. Animation toolset - Automated walk-cycles along paths


Download Blender for Windows

64 Bit version : http://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/graphics/blender/release/Blender2.71/blender-2.71-windows64.exe

32 bit version : http://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/graphics/blender/release/Blender2.71/blender-2.71-windows32.exe

Download Blender for MAC OS

64 Bit version : http://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/graphics/blender/release/Blender2.71/blender-2.71-OSX_10.6-j2k-fix-x86_64.zip

32 bit version : http://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/graphics/blender/release/Blender2.71/blender-2.71-OSX_10.6-j2k-fix-i386.zip


Download Blender for LINUX

64 Bit version : http://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/graphics/blender/release/Blender2.71/blender-2.71-linux-glibc211-x86_64.tar.bz2

32 bit version : http://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/graphics/blender/release/Blender2.71/blender-2.71-linux-glibc211-i686.tar.bz2



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OpenVSP Free parametric aircraft geometry tool

OpenVSP is a parametric aircraft geometry tool. OpenVSP allows the user to create a 3D model of an aircraft defined by common engineering parameters.

OpenVSP Compatible Operating Systems : Windows, Mac OS X, FreeBSD Package, Linux Build from source

OpenVSP Features

Save CFD export options.
Automatically add *.vsp extension when saving.
Add *.ram files to file-open dialog.
Write propellers to XSec *.hrm files.
Fixed PovRay *.inc file bug.
Fix FEA elements not getting written.


OpenVSP Export File Types

STL JPEG HRM X3D Rhino 3DM TRI MSH POV POLY

OpenVSP Import File Types

STL JPEG HRM

OpenVSP tutorial can be downloaded from http://openvsp.org/files/VSP_Manual.pdf for Free in PDF version


OpenVSP Download for Windows

http://www.openvsp.org/download.php?file=zips/current/windows/OpenVSP-2.9.1-win32.zip

OpenVSP Download for Mac OS

http://www.openvsp.org/download.php?file=zips/current/mac/OpenVSP-2.9.1-MacOS.zip

SolveSpace CAD software demo and download

SolveSpace is a constraint-based parametric modeler with simple mechanical simulation capabilities - works under Windows XP, Vista, 7, and 8

Best thing : Its a FREE Software!!

SolveSpace Features

Sketch sections using lines, rectangles, datum lines and points circles, arcs of a circle, datum circles
Build solid model with extruded or lathed (solid of revolution) sketch or Boolean operations: union (add material), difference (remove material)
Parametric and associative assembly import parts and drag them with six degrees of freedom or import mirrored or with arbitrary scale

Gallery

Export formats for SolveSpace

For 2D

DXF, EPS, PDF, SVG, HPGL, STEP;

For 3D

3D wireframe as DXF and STEP; triangle mesh as STL and Wavefront OBJ
NURBS surfaces as STEP.

You can also export toolpath as G code

Solvespace tutorials http://solvespace.com/tutorial.pl

Download Solvespace here http://solvespace.com/download.pl

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A Mathematical Programming Language AMPL Softwares for Engineers

A Mathematical Programming Language aka AMPL

Free demo download of AMPL Software : http://ampl.com/try-ampl/download-a-demo-version/

Free version can be used,  

For linear problems, 500 variables and 500 constraints plus objectives.
For nonlinear problems, 300 variables and 300 constraints plus objectives.


File name extensions for AMPL : .mod .dat .run

New integrated development environment (IDE) for AMPL available (updated)

The Research version of AMPL cost you about 400 US Dollars for single pc installation licence


Different mixed integer programming type solvers supported by AMPL

APOPT
Bonmin
BPMPD
CONOPT


Contact address for AMPL

AMPL Optimization
900 Sierra Place SE
Albuquerque, NM 87108
3379

U.S.A

email : sales@ampl.com

website : www.ampl.com

phone : +1 773-336-AMPL



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ADINA CFD Software Demo and Download

ADINA CFD Software Demo and Download

The flows may contain free surfaces and moving interfaces between fluids, and between fluids and structures. An arbitrary Langrangian-Eulerian (ALE) formulation is used

Basic assumptions used in modeling fluid flows:

 Full Navier-Strokes or Euler equations.
 Incompressible or fully compressible flows.
 Steady-state or transient analysis.
 Laminar or turbulent flows.
 Flows with or without heat transfer.
 Mass transfer.

A free 900 Nodes version is available for FREE Download : http://www.adina.com/php_free900.shtml


Contact Address :
71 Elton Avenue
Watertown, MA 02472, USA
Tel: (617) 926-5199
Fax: (617) 926-0238

Email Contact : info@adina.com


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Vero Software EDGECAM CAM Softwares

Vero Software EDGECAM

Contact Number : +44 (0) 1189 756084

EDGECAM is one of the most popular CAD CAM software for CNC programming

Some of its features includes 3D Milling, Mill-Turn Machining and Multi Axis Machining.

Download EDGECAM software and its licence here : www.edgecam.com/downloads


Demo Software Mechanical Software CAM Software

Open Source equivalent to MATLAB : FreeMAT download

FreeMat is an open-source MATLAB-like environment with a GPL license developed by Samit Basu.
Freemat is written in Assembly Language, C, C++, Fortran, Qt
It is compatible with Cross-platform (GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, Windows)
Latest version released on 2013-06-30 - FreeMat 4.2

The latest version of Freemat can be downloaded at

http://sourceforge.net/projects/freemat/files/FreeMat4/

The user manual for the Freemat software in PDF format can be viewd at

http://sourceforge.net/projects/freemat/files/FreeMat4/FreeMat-4.2.pdf/download

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

Software to create Virtual LEGO models - LeoCAD Download

LeoCAD is a CAD program for creating virtual LEGO models.

This is an interesting CAD Program to create Lego Models and render with any other software like 3D MAX

You may download the latest version http://code.google.com/p/leocad/downloads/list

virtual LEGO models

LeoCAD for Windows LeoCAD for Linux LeoCAD for Mac OS X

Free FEA Software LISAFEA Static Stress Tutorial

Free FEA Software LISAFEA Static Stress Tutorial


 

If anybody interested to use LISA 8.0.0 you may download it for free here

You can create up to 1300 Nodes in the free version of  LISA 8.0.0 FEA Software.

If you want to seriously implement Free FEA software Lisa, you may lift the limit by paying a small amount of 99USD.

We recommend FREE FEA Software LISA for schools to practise FEA basics



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Wireless CNC Software for your Machine Shop

Wireless CNC Software for your Machine Shop

There is an interesting software called Predator DNC software which is designed to connect all of your CNC machines, robots, PLCs and part markers etc through wireless networking system. Predator DNC can manages your CNC programs, offsets and parameters.  Predator DNC can be integrated to various CNC machines like FANUC.

 With Predator DNC Wireless CNC software, you could achieve one Network for all your CNC machines, robots, PLCs etc. You can Send, Receive CNC programs. It supports Wireless, Ethernet, RS-232 and Parallel I/O. Wireless CNC connections are made through Predator Express RS232 Hardware which is an affordable 2, 4 and 8 port RS232 PC solution.

If you can install and run wireless cnc softwares successfully, you can eliminate number of walks between your office and the CNC machine. By sitting infront of your computer you can edit, review and copy your CNC programs with one ore two clicks.
   
We have not tried it yet. But you can dowbload a demo software from below link

DOWNLOAD


Wireless CNC machines connections has to be done by an experienced technician, so don't try is unless you are completely aware of what you are doing.