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Re: GNUstep for Engineers
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Markus Hitter |
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Re: GNUstep for Engineers |
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Mon, 12 Mar 2007 06:56:57 +0100 |
Am 11.03.2007 um 19:20 schrieb Stefan Bidigaray:
Anyway, the idea I had was to transfer this program into ObjC and
turn it
into a library; [...] The project itself is still in the very early
planning stages at this point,
Looking at all those FEA frameworks available already, I don't know
wether it is a good idea to start yet another one almost from
scratch. Big part of the usefulness of FEA code is it's proven
reliability and projects like CalculiX, code_aster, OpenCFD, Gerris,
Elmer, ... are more advanced regarding this. Have a look at
www.caelinux.com and it's forum for a more complete list.
Second important point with FEA software is it's capability to import
geometry from standard formats like IGES or STEP and to calculate
meshes on this geometry. Salome, using OpenCascade, is pretty good at
this and if it's a measure, it comes along with an installed size of
no less than 600 MB. Gmsh is a lot smaller, still it has some ten
years of development and testing behind it.
That said, I agree with the idea of using GNUstep as an engineer's
development platform. Obj-C is easy to learn and a lot more robust
than other popular languages like Fortran or C++. In fact, I did a
few steps towards joining GNUstep, Etoile and the contents of
CAELinux already, but that's a huuuge task. Dozens of code bundles to
download, build and install in a useable manner. I started with
Ubuntu Edgy, if that matters.
my $0.02
Markus
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- GNUstep for Engineers, Stefan Bidigaray, 2007/03/11
- Re: GNUstep for Engineers, Fred Kiefer, 2007/03/11
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- Re: GNUstep for Engineers, Stefan Bidigaray, 2007/03/12
- Re: GNUstep for Engineers, Fred Kiefer, 2007/03/12
- Re: GNUstep for Engineers, Adam Fedor, 2007/03/12
- Re: GNUstep for Engineers, Stefan Bidigaray, 2007/03/12
- Re: GNUstep for Engineers, Adam Fedor, 2007/03/13
- Re: GNUstep for Engineers, Daniel J Farrell, 2007/03/13
- Re: GNUstep for Engineers, Adam Fedor, 2007/03/13
- Re: GNUstep for Engineers, Daniel J Farrell, 2007/03/13
- Re: GNUstep for Engineers, Stefan Bidigaray, 2007/03/13
- Re: GNUstep for Engineers, Stefan Bidigaray, 2007/03/14