FEM Mesh CalculiX
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FEM element types in CalculiX
For detailed information on FreeCAD FEM elements see FEM Mesh and FEM Element Types. For CalculiX specific questions you may try the Discourse group or the Discord channel.
Segment element
seg2 FreeCAD nodes | seg3 FreeCAD nodes |
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seg2 (B31) CalculiX nodes | seg3 (B32) CalculiX nodes |
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FreeCAD → CalculiX, Nodes | |
N1, N2 | N1, N3, N2 |
Triangle element
Quadratic element
Tetrahedron element
The following node order is not implemented ! TODO: verify node order (do not forget getccxVolumesByFace()).
Hexahedron element
Pentahedron element
Related
- FEM CalculiX page
- CalculiX preferences dialog menu in the FEM Workbench preferences menu
- Materials: Solid, Fluid, Nonlinear mechanical; Material editor
- Element geometry: Beam (1D), Beam rotation (1D), Shell (2D), Fluid flow (1D)
Constraints
- Electrostatic: Potential
- Fluid: Initial velocity, Fluid boundary, Flow velocity
- Mechanical: Fixed, Displacement, Plane rotation, Contact, Transform, Force, Pressure, Self weight, Bearing, Gear, Pulley
- Thermal: Initial temperature, Heat flux, Temperature, Heat source
- Solve: Calculix tools, CalculiX, Elmer, Z88; Equations: Heat, Elasticity, Electrostatic, Flux, Flow; 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, Line clip filter, Stress linearization plot, Data at point clip filter, Create functions
- Utilities: Clipping plane, Remove clipping planes; Mesh clear, Mesh display info
- Additional: Preferences; FEM Install, FEM Mesh, FEM Solver, FEM CalculiX, FEM Concrete; FEM Element Types

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