Engineering & simulation

Prove it before you cut it

Will the bracket hold? Will the duct flow? Open-source FEA, CFD and meshing tools answer those questions on a laptop — the same solvers that sit under expensive commercial suites.

FEAopen source

CalculiX

An Abaqus-syntax finite-element solver — the engine behind FreeCAD's structural and thermal analysis.

CFDsoon

OpenFOAM

The industry-standard open-source CFD toolbox — fluid, thermal and multiphysics at any scale.

Meshingsoon

Gmsh

The go-to open mesh generator — scriptable, robust, and the front-end for many solvers.

FEAsoon

FreeCAD FEM

FEA without leaving FreeCAD — a guided front-end over CalculiX and friends.