New software for pre- and post-processing

[johnnyontheweb]

Dear all,
it is available from now a brand-new software that supports, amongst the other features, pre- and post- processing for OpenSees. Some applications will be presented in the upcoming OpenSees Days Italy in Salerno.
It can be downloaded from http://www.nextfem.eu and it is free.
I kindly ask fmk to include this software in the Tools page (http://opensees.berkeley.edu/OpenSees/user/tools.php) if possible; below a short description:

NextFEM Designer is a user friendly Finite Element Analysis program, which can be used alone or to be a pre- or post- processor for several widely used FEM programs (i.e. OOFEM, SAP2000, Midas GEN, OpenSees, ABAQUS/CalculiX, Zeus-NL, and others).
List of features:
- general pre-processor capabilities: 3D and 2D views, customizable colours, accelerated rendering with DirectX technology;
- modelling with the most common structural elements, such as beams, shells and solid elements;
- importing input files from DXF drawings, OpenSees scripts, Midas GEN, SAP2000, ABAQUS, OOFEM, Zeus-NL;
- importing results from SAP2000, OOFEM and OpenSees;
- exporting models to SAP2000, ABAQUS, Midas GEN, OpenSees, OOFEM;
- post-processing capabilities with deformed shapes with contour display, beam diagrams, stress and strain contour.

[fmk]

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[johnnyontheweb]

Thanks