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http://www.freebyte.com/cad/fea.htm http://www.engineersedge.com/engineering/Engineering_Downloads/Finite_Element_Software_Public_Domain/ http://geuz.org/gmsh/ http://www.range-software.com/ http://www.caelinux.com/

The Mechanical Engineering Department from the Carnigie Mellon University has placed some good tutorials on how to use the PTC Pro/Engineer CAD software . It is an excellent material and is based on Pro/Engineer Wildfire 3, the last one with a Linux version. It also includes Sheet Metal and Surfaces design and Finite Element Analisys using the Pro/Mechanica module.

Watching a phd presentation this afternoon, I was introduced to two new libraries deal.II and the trilinos project .

I was reading some papers at Universia , and I've found this one which references the Gmsh , a apparently simple mesh generator with an simple integrated CAD. It also has screencasts showing how to use it. Gmsh was is developed by the professor Christophe Geuzaine for academic uses. I didn't read much, but Gmsh is apparently scriptable and the CAD tool is realy simple to use. I was planning to develop something very similar. Another cool thing at the professor's site is the project GL2PS , which the main idea, on convert OpenGL rendering in PS, PDF and SVG, I was also thinking in. Professor Geyzaine had also written an finite element solver, the GetDP . I am planning to use them all on some grad school works. Another code on Finite Element Analysis is the SLFFEA , which stands for San Le's Free Finite Element Analysis, deserves note and is entierly written in Ansi C.