On Sep 30, 2004, at 6:31 AM, Shelly Smithson wrote:
Does anyone here either know of efforts to port these products to
MacOSX of these or a competitive product ?
I hear rumors from time to time about ports to Mac OSX from ANSYS. Your
best bet is to contact them yourself. And be prepared to explain why
it'll be worth their while. Most large scale FEA software runs on UNIX
boxes, and ideally the port shouldn't be too tough, although I'm sure
there'll be optimization and legacy code issues. The biggest problem is
getting past the marketing types who can't see anything but existing
market share for machinery. But once the first good structural analysis
port comes out, everyone will jump on the bandwagon. You might also
consider NASTRAN, although you'll have to think about how to handle
modeling.
I run COSMOS/M on my Macs, and it'll run under Classic, but it really
needs some work--there are bugs and memory leaks but I'm sure they're
fixable without a lot of effort. The original COSMOS/M developed
Structural Research and Analysis is now owned by Dassault (I think--the
people who own CATIA, anyway) and they could be open to resuming Mac
support. There are a couple of other options, such as resurrecting
older general purpose codes like STARDYNE and there's a NASA-developed
code called STARS that sounds pretty good and was once slated for a Mac
port. I'm told STARS is commercial, but I haven't ever seen an ad for
it.
I'd sure be interested in a good FEA program for OSX. I've been in the
FEA biz (as user, not developer) for about 25 years and if I can be any
help or just a sounding board, please get in touch. All the chatter on
the list from the bioscience people running code on G5 clusters just
breaks my heart ;->
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