Many thanks fro this great feature! While documenting the feature for FreeCAD 0.20 I encounter these issues: OK, I found the bug: https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/issues/6579#issuecomment-1066142069 I will now make a new installer for FreeCAD 0.19.4. I see I'm quite late, but seems you found the ...

This is a continued post from https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=61438 I have been truing to to find a way to link the FEM results to the spreadsheet without any success However, can I use scripts to get specific results from FreeCAD FEM ? I imagine if you can show FEM result on ...

There are also two books about practical aspects of FEA worth recommending: "Building Better Products with Finite Element Analysis" by Adams and "Practical Finite Element Analysis for Mechanical Engineers" by Madier. The first one is a bit old (written in late 90s) but still rel...

user1234 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 13, 2021 4:24 pm You must:

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-DBUILD_FEM_NETGEN:BOOL=ON

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Nice, thanks!

FYI, Netgen is compiled into FreeCAD whereas Gmsh eill be used as external binary. Means for Netgen you need a FreeCAD binarx which has Netgen included and for Gmsh you need to install Gmsh binary snd set the path to the binary in FEM prefs. Bernd I'm missing netgen as well and have compiled it fro...

It is almost ready. About 1400mm in axis and 700mm height, ~1500kg. Made from S355J2. Maybe will be able to put some photos in couple of weeks. It is element between 300m mast and 20m+ antena. Results from Freecad are more or less we were expecting. Great software. Damn, really nice of you to share...

PR regarding the naming of calculix result files. https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/pull/4871 Congratulations almost 4 years after i have started (and 3.5 years after i failed!) you have succeeded!! Thanks! My first open source contribution. But all things after this I've tried have failed, or as ...

I know that CalculiX uses "fake" shell elements (shells are expanded to solids by the solver) but I didn't know that's the case with beam elements too. I thought that in CalculiX it's possible to define arbitrary cross-section for beam elements by providing the necessary section propertie...

Is there anyone already pursuing this? Got a window of opportunity and was thinking of trying to give it a serious go. Tough I'm been poking around the code and it seems like a more complicated task than I initially thought. But you can't blame a guy for trying. :D I have uploaded a working version...

The only working solution for Calculix we have found so far is by changing the original mesh, which is not something I am happy with ... https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=59989&start=20#p516277 It would be cool if we would found something without changing the mesh and withou...