FEM project

This is the project plan for the FreeCAD FEM integration as part of the Development roadmap.

Outcome
Simple FEM chain to start the matter. Which is cabable of meshing a Part (automatic) and compute some standard stuff like stiffnes and frequencies.

The framwork shut allow tetraedic and hex meshes. Writing the output decks as python plugin to ease use different solver. Simple post processing with the apility to extend by python.

potencial Meshers


Some meshers out there
 * Netgen very good mesher, LGPL with some library suport
 * Salome complicated package, hard to get the code we need!?

potecial Solver
some solver out there
 * Calculix
 * [www.code-aster.org Code-Aster] very broad solver with python bindings.

Mesher

 * Testing the mesh generators by experts
 * Analysing software structure and possible integration

Next actions
Building nglib (netgen lib) and play around.