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

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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FreeCAD - 3D Modeler software

FreeCAD is a parametric 3D modeling software allows you to create and modify your design by going back into your model history and changing its parameters. FreeCAD is open source (LGPL license) and completely modular, allowing for very advanced extension and customization.

FreeCAD is multiplatfom, and reads and writes many open file formats such as STEP, IGES, STL and others

You can download a free copy of FreeCAD softwares to your PC through the links given below,

FreeCAD software Windows version can be downloaded here

FreeCAD software Ubuntu version can be downloaded here

FreeCAD software MAC OS X version can be downloaded here

If you are interested in FreeCAD development or custumization for your organization, you may download API documents here