Category Archives: Software Review

ForcePAD

Posted on April 10, 2011 by io

ForcePAD is a very nice, little educational topology optimizing software. It is similar to Paint in terms of interface. You just paint a 2D structure with a brush kind of tool, place forces with few clicks and do the topology … Continue reading →

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FreeFem++ Toolbox

Posted on March 12, 2011 by io

A FreeFem++ toolbox is developed by G. Allaire, B. Boutin, C. Dousset and O. Pantz of Ecole Polytechnique in France. FreeFem++ is itself a free software for solving partial differential equations by the finite element method. With the toolbox 2D … Continue reading →

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TopOpt Review

Posted on March 10, 2011 by io

TopOpt is developed by Technical University of Denmark. The 2D version was online by 1999 and since then the online tool has been used for more than 180.000 times. Its 3D version was online by 2004 and is used for … Continue reading →

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Trinitas Review

Posted on March 9, 2011 by io

Trinitas is developed by Linköping University for mainly research. It provides many forms of Finite Element Analysis and is quite useful. As far as we are aware its commercial usage price is very low. We tried the 30 day limited … Continue reading →

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