[Cad] Interest in CAE?

[arthur_torrey@comcast.net]

It would be a nice to have...  I mostly get by using the simple method of 'make it stout, out of stuff you know about' but it would be nice to reduce the overkill on things like part thickness / weight...

No strong opinion on integration vs. separate tools, and if having a separate tool chain would make development of a GUI interface kernel easier then that would be a good thing...  (Might be worth trying to do a 'semi-automatic' thing that would work like the DRC (Design Rules Check) in KiCAD to have a way to do a check on partially completed designs, but that isn't essential)

ART

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Arthur Torrey - <arthur_torrey at comcast.net>
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----- Original Message -----
From: Jeremy Wright <wrightjmf at gmail.com>
To: cad-discuss at mit.edu
Sent: Sat, 21 Nov 2015 00:57:23 -0000 (UTC)
Subject: Interest in CAE?

We've been talking mainly about CAD, but out of curiosity, how many of you
are interested in having CAE functionality (like FEA) in addition to CAD?

If you are interested, do you want it to be integrated with your CAD
software, or is it ok to have a tool chain where each piece of software
understands the same file format(s)?