Re: [ATM] Re:FEA CAD (Was:Something of Interest)

["matt" <electro_optic@bellsouth.net>]

most open tube scopes are or can be analyzed as truss structures .
For solids, there's another FEA software that is free with a limit of 300
nodes:
http://www.autofea.com/Download-FEA-software.htm

best regards,
matt tudor

-----Original Message-----
From: Arjan te Marvelde <arjan.te.marvelde@hetnet.nl>
To: matt <electro_optic@bellsouth.net>; atm@atmlist.net <atm@atmlist.net>
Date: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 3:11 AM
Subject: Re: [ATM] Re:Something of Interest


>Isn't Grape only meant for beam/truss structures, and not solid objects?
>Tom Krajci has used it to analyse trussed dobs.
>AtM
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "matt" <electro_optic@bellsouth.net>
>To: "Arjan te Marvelde" <arjan.te.marvelde@hetnet.nl>; <atm@atmlist.net>
>Sent: Tuesday, 07 June, 2005 17:01
>Subject: Re: [ATM] Re:Something of Interest
>
>
>> I realize this is not what you guys were discussing (what were you
>actually
>> talking about ;-) , however this might be useful to someone hopefully.
>> Here's a FREE 3D FEA CAD , no strings attached, no time limit, no
>> crippleware. Works on win95/98/nt/2k/xp :
>> http://www.grapesoftware.mb.ca/
>>
>> best regards,
>> matt tudor
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Arjan te Marvelde <arjan.te.marvelde@hetnet.nl>
>> To: atm@atmlist.net <atm@atmlist.net>
>> Date: Tuesday, June 07, 2005 10:28 AM
>> Subject: [ATM] Re:Something of Interest
>>
>>
>> >But Richard,
>> >
>> >All you have to do is learn to read Ada, then dive into this
undocumented
>> >program and convert it to a more convenient language, compile it and you
>> >have your unlimited nr of nodes 3-D FEA tool. Isn't that what you've
>always
>> >been looking for?
>> >
>> >The bright side: it's not completely hooked up to the M$-windoze
>> >environment.
>> >
>> >/Arjan
>> >
>> >> A great joy of my youth at Berzerkeley about 45 years ago was the
>Friday
>> >>night program of R. Buckminster Fuller on communist radio station KPFK.
>> He
>> >> would probably approve the following web page of interest to structure
>> >> experimenters:
>> >>
>> >> http://www.arcaro.org/tension/
>> >
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