Software for Consultant company
Software for Consultant company
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Hi everybody!
I'm having some plans of starting a consultant company doing finite element analysis. I have some questions regarding which software to use. I have about 4 years of experience of Abaqus but as I understand it the pricing of this software is rather high (As a PhD student I mostly worked with an in house code). I'm most interested in doing highly non-linear analysis (advanced material models and so on) so a software with these capabilities would be needed. Any ideas? Moreover, do you think that a "freeware" like Calculix can do the trick? Is it good enough to be used in comersial purposes?
I'm having some plans of starting a consultant company doing finite element analysis. I have some questions regarding which software to use. I have about 4 years of experience of Abaqus but as I understand it the pricing of this software is rather high (As a PhD student I mostly worked with an in house code). I'm most interested in doing highly non-linear analysis (advanced material models and so on) so a software with these capabilities would be needed. Any ideas? Moreover, do you think that a "freeware" like Calculix can do the trick? Is it good enough to be used in comersial purposes?






RE: Software for Consultant company
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RE: Software for Consultant company
About the postprocessing, Im not quite sure about that eighter... In the past I have userd Abaqus CAE, ANSA and HyerMesh and at the moment I like CAE better. Are there any other low price - high performance pre/postprocessors out there that you are aware of??
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