User:Kuroshivo/sandbox

CAEplex is a computer-aided engineering web-based platform which was designed from scratch to run finite-element analysis models on cloud computing directly from a web browser. It was developed by the Argentinian company Seamplex and launched on February 2017. It received a prize from the Bank of the Argentine Nation to support startups as it is the only platform on its kind in Latin America.

CAEplex is fully integrated into the cloud-based CAD platform Onshape.

= Problems =

The platform allows users to solve thermo-mechanical problems directly from the browser. In particular,

 Heat conduction with temperature, heat flux and/or convective boundary conditions, Mechanical elasticity optionally taking into consideration temperature distribution from a heat conduction problem (i), an algebraic expression of x, y and z, or interpolated point-wise scattered data.  

= Description =

Technically speaking, it is a web front end for a number of mechanical engineering back end tools running on an UNIX server. In particular, it uses the following technical back-ends:


 * PythonOCC (which itself relies on OpenCASCADE) for analyzing and processing the CAD models provided by the users.
 * Gmsh for the mesh generation (which also relies on OpenCASCADE.
 * Fino for the solution of the FEA problem (which uses GSL and PETSc).

All of these back-ends are free and open source software. The FEA back-end Fino was also developed by Seamplex from scratch.

Formats
CAEplex can process the following formats for geometry file

Additionally, geometries created in Onshape can be used by directly opening a new tab in the document window as CAEplex is a fully-integrated app.
 * BREP
 * STEP, or
 * IGES

Besides post-processing the results directly in the browser using an ad-hoc WebGL interface (using the X3DOM JavaScript library ), they can be downloaded in VTK format.

= External links =


 * CAEplex website
 * Fino website
 * CAEplex entry in Onshape App store
 * Seamplex website

= References =