×
INTELLIGENT WORK FORUMS
FOR ENGINEERING PROFESSIONALS

Log In

Come Join Us!

Are you an
Engineering professional?
Join Eng-Tips Forums!
  • Talk With Other Members
  • Be Notified Of Responses
    To Your Posts
  • Keyword Search
  • One-Click Access To Your
    Favorite Forums
  • Automated Signatures
    On Your Posts
  • Best Of All, It's Free!
  • Students Click Here

*Eng-Tips's functionality depends on members receiving e-mail. By joining you are opting in to receive e-mail.

Posting Guidelines

Promoting, selling, recruiting, coursework and thesis posting is forbidden.

Students Click Here

Jobs

GUI Software for OS X

GUI Software for OS X

GUI Software for OS X

(OP)
I am in need of Electrical Simulation with interactive GUI (like ORCAD) and mechanical Finite element analysis for mechanical stressing and thermal stress modeling software. Again usability is critical ie. no command line UI and real time interactivity a must.

I am looking forward to your replieds as I am in desperate need of this kind of software that will rum under OS X.


Thanks!!!

RE: GUI Software for OS X

Since the command line is out for you (for whatever reason) then you won't like SPICE alone, but there are a number of GUI simulators that are based on SPICE (Berkley SPICE 3f5) and/or GnuCap for OS8+ including OSX. Try MiSugar available here (freeware, donations accepted):

http://www.macinit.com/description.html

You can also run any of the other commercial simulators for Windows via VPC (commercial software, see Microsoft) or any of the Linux/UNIX simulators via OSX and X11 (see Apple Computer's site for X11 for OSX download, free).

Hope that helps.

RE: GUI Software for OS X

Finite Element Analysis might be available from VisualFEA (Windows, OSX) although the developers seem to be having problems with the Korean-English part of life. Might be a bear getting it to work; I couldn't even find a price (Free? A Million dollars? Who knows?) and the docs seem unfinished. Still the examples on the site look nice.

http://www.intuitivefem.com/index.html

Anyway, there are again quite a few. Try JANFEA (Univ of Utah, Free)

http://www.eng.utah.edu/~nairn/JANFEA/

A more serious version is FlexPDE v4.0; although an Evaluation Edition (quite limited) and a free Student Edition (equation + node limits) are available I suggest you download the full version and then eMail for a Trial License to unlock it.

Of course, if you like it you will have to pay out the big bucks; it's not a "hobby" program by any means and is priced accordingly ($800 2D and $2000 2D/3D).

http://www.pdesolutions.com/index.html

Red Flag This Post

Please let us know here why this post is inappropriate. Reasons such as off-topic, duplicates, flames, illegal, vulgar, or students posting their homework.

Red Flag Submitted

Thank you for helping keep Eng-Tips Forums free from inappropriate posts.
The Eng-Tips staff will check this out and take appropriate action.

Reply To This Thread

Posting in the Eng-Tips forums is a member-only feature.

Click Here to join Eng-Tips and talk with other members!


Resources