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Question about Abaqus

Question about Abaqus

Question about Abaqus

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I am new to the forums, and am trying to figure out what FEA package to learn.  I am thinking about starting my own one man consulting firm to do structural/machine parts FEA.  I am an old engineer that wants to do this as a semi-retirement type of thing to bring in some monthly income.  I learned FEA years ago and the packages I knew about have changed from back then.  I haven't done FEA in a while.

I have looked through the other posts and don't want to rehash what FEA package is "best" as I know everyone has a different opinion.  It appears that Abaqus is definitely a good package, but expensive.  I thought I would take a different approach to a general question and ask what types of problems Abaqus would not be good to use for.  What are Abaqus's weakneses?

Thanks for any help on this...  

RE: Question about Abaqus

I think the only weakness is that it is expensive.

Most likely, you will not be interested in using all the capabilities it has.

RE: Question about Abaqus

Take a look on ADINA. Not so expensive, pretty powerfull for mechanical problems (plasticity, metal forming, etc)

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