A couple of months ago, I sent an e-mail to MSC Corp. asking if they planned
to support Patran and P/Thermal on the Mac. I got the automated reply saying
that they were forwarding the message to the correct person, but never heard
anything further. My guess is that they are waiting for demand to increase
before announcing anything. Since those packages run on Linux boxes with
gcc/g77, it should not be difficult to port them to the Mac.
In the finite element area, there are two free packages that seem to have
great potential for "low budget" Mac finite element users. One is the GMSH
mesh generator at http://www.geuz.org/gmsh/, and the other is a
post-processor, GMV, at http://www-xdiv.lanl.gov/XCM/gmv/GMVHome.html.
These, with proper translators, at least cover the pre- and post-processing
ends of finite-element calculations.
Until commercial applications appear, I guess, I'll have to stay with my
public domain versions of the finite-element thermal codes Topaz and Facet
that I picked up back in the '80s. Has anyone seen any commercial thermal
finite-element codes offered for OS X?
Joe Koski
on 4/9/04 9:28 AM, Christopher Wright at email@hidden wrote:
> I'm a user and hitherto lurker on the list and a former member/director
> of the old MacSciTech group which foundered during Apple's financial
> troubles. As a Machead engineer, I can't tell you how pleased I am that
> there's some serious effort to get back into science and technology. Most
> of my practice involves finite element analysis, and I limp along with a
> old version of COSMOS/M, unsupported for years, but still running under
> OS 9.1 and maybe Classic if I can figure out how to make the infernal
> dongle respond properly.
>
> Is anyone on the list aware of efforts to compile any general finite
> element software for OS X? My guess (probably better than a guess) is
> that large-scale FEA packages like NASTRAN or ANSYS would run like a
> dream on a G5, since they have been used on UNIX machinery for at least
> 15 years. I made a few tentative inquiries about a NASA-developed package
> called STARS which was originally scheduled for porting to Mac but never
> made it. Does anyone know of any similar effort to port FEA software for
> the G5? Are there any others of my kind who might be interested in such
> an effort?
>
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