FEM Preferences

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The preferences screen of the FEM Workbench are found in the Preferences Editor, Edit → Preferences → FEM.

There are several tabs in the FEM workbench preferences, starting with the General configuration of the workbench. The rest of the tabs control how FEM interacts with supported external solvers.

The current supported external solvers are:

CalculiX
Gmsh
Z88
Elmer

General

CalculiX

Gmsh

Z88

Elmer

FEM

FEM Analysis

Materials: Solid, Fluid, Nonlinear mechanical, Reinforced (concrete); Material editor

Element geometry: Beam (1D), Beam rotation (1D), Shell (2D), Fluid flow (1D)

Constraints

Electromagnetic: Electrostatic potential, Current density, Magnetization

Fluid: Initial flow velocity, Initial pressure, Flow velocity

Geometrical: Plane rotation, Section print, Transform

Mechanical: Fixed, Displacement, Contact, Tie, Spring, Force, Pressure, Centrif, Self weight

Thermal: Initial temperature, Heat flux, Temperature, Body heat source

Overwrite Constants: Constant vacuum permittivity

Mesh: Mesh Netgen, Mesh GMSH, Mesh boundary layer, Mesh region, Mesh group, Nodes set, Mesh to mesh

Solve: CalculiX Standard, Elmer, Mystran, Z88; Equations: Deformation, Elasticity, Electrostatic, Electricforce, Magnetodynamic, Magnetodynamic 2D, Flow, Flux, Heat; Solver: Solver control, Solver run

Results: Purge, Show; Postprocessing: Apply changes, Pipeline from result, Warp filter, Scalar clip filter, Function cut filter, Region clip filter, Contours filter, Line clip filter, Stress linearization plot, Data at point clip filter, Filter function plane, Filter function sphere, Filter function cylinder, Filter function box

Utilities: Clipping plane, Remove clipping planes, Open FEM examples; Mesh clear, Mesh display info

Additional: Preferences; FEM Install, FEM Mesh, FEM Solver, FEM CalculiX, FEM Concrete; FEM Element Types

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