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?
Christopher Wright P.E. |"They couldn't hit an elephant at
email@hidden | this distance" (last words of Gen.
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