From FreeCAD Documentation
- In the tree view double click on the solver object .
- In the task panel of the solver object make sure static analysis is selected.
- Click on Write .inp file in the same task window. Watch the log window until it prints "write completed."
- Click on Run CalculiX. Since this is a very small analysis it should take less than a second to run.
- In the text window it should print in green letters "CalculiX done without error!" and in the next line "loading result sets ..."
- You just have finished your first FEA in FreeCAD if there has not been any error message.
- Click on Close in the task window.
- A new result object should be created. You know how to visualize the results already.
- If you get an error message no solver binary or similar when triggering the analysis check FEM Install.