I knew I had used the code tags before!

yeah I guess that's where we need to ask for multithreading Here is an moderate example using my normal computer with just 8 CPUs. You can see that using spooles, but also pardiso, the program doesn't seem to use any multithreading after the whole matrix inversion calculation jazz. It would be cool ...

I was just thinking that maybe I could run a batch mode .inp generation by creating a macro this runs the solver: Gui.runCommand('FEM_SolverRun',0) this opens the Solver CcxTools feature where one could click a button to save "inp" file App.getDocument('macro_test').getObject('SolverCcxToo...

So I just had a couple of days of trying to subdivide a volume to be able to refine some volumes. https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=18780&start=50 I kept doing this, which I thought was correct: 1) Created 2 bodies in PART workbench and placed one at the center of the other 2...

I'm having an interesting problem. I got a friend of a friend who knows a guy to let me use a nice computer with lots of CPUs. More than my personal computer will ever have this year or next. So anyway, I set up the computer to use all cores and the result was that calculix... while calculating a pl...

Thanks for the links Bernd. I'll take a look. My usual workflow is to get the model from solidworks to step or to remodel sections, then I use FreeCAD to slice it after I run calculix on the model initially. Once sliced I send it back to FEM and prepare a second go with the learnings from the initia...

It looks like one can have parameters in the inp file according to: https://abaqus-docs.mit.edu/2017/English/SIMACAEMODRefMap/simamod-c-parinput.htm first declaring the variable using the PARAMETER card, then using that parameter via < > symbols PARAMETER width = 2.5 height = width*2 BEAM SECTION, S...

for example this simple beam loading. the bottom is fixed, the top is where I would like to add some kind of moment, I apply 0.5mm displacement in the two plane directions and I get the same as if I applied 0.5mm plus a rotation of 45degrees, exactly the same image, the 45 degrees doesn't even come ...

I thought the displacement constraint allowed one to allow movement in only one axis so that you could use it as a sliding constraint. but then you are right, the pivoting constraint is missing. But again it seems to be a Calculix limitation. some how one has to work around it

using the inp editor from launcher3.4 it looks like this is a limitation existing in Calculix ** directions <dir> can be 1,2,3 for bodies ** and 1 to 6 for shells and beams (4,5,6 - to fix rotation) ** *BOUNDARY <nod.group>,<dir>,<dir>,<value> ** repeat last line, if needed