First step with FEM

[doul]

doul, very cool.

BTW, please remove your version info from your signature.

No problem, it's done.

Also, do you know any folks in the *BSD world that are running v0.19 natively ?

As far I know : no, before the virtual way I try to compile FreeCAD from sources, I failed. After some web searching I saw many "small" modification have to be done. In FreeBSD this job is made by the port maintainer, that requires time and programming knowledge.

[doul]

Try the power of external mesher : gmsh

It's a 6061 aluminium tube, 4000N load in center, 6m range.

Design in FreeCAD -> export in brep format to gmsh
- change mesh options (size min/max, MechAdapt for 2D algorithm)
- mesh 2D
- recombine 2D (triangles -> quadrangle)
- set order 2
- mesh 3D
- save mesh and export in inp format -> import in FreeCAD, just drag'n drop in analysis and go on as usual.

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