Thursday, August 29, 2013

Salome - Open Source CAD and Meshing Software

I recently started using Salome as a CAD and Meshing tool. Though initially I found it a bit tough to start up with but with practice I have found it much easier to work. The software was developed by a Finnish Institute in 1995 and since then has undergone many developments.
The software has some really good geometry building feature which are found even in commercial softwares. The concept of exploding the geometry into solid ,faces, wires has really caught my eye as that is something very unique about this software.
Once the CAD file is made it can be easily shifted to the Mesh Module. Now the only thing here is to be taken care of is the Meshing strategy to be used. User needs to understand what kind of a mesh is required for his/her geometry and accordingly choose the methods. Also the limit for the cell count here is 500000, I really don't understand the reason behind this as it sometimes the user requires to compromise on the mesh cell count ( some geometries require huge number of cells ). The Mesh file can be saved in  " .unv " format and can be used in OpenFOAM. There are a lot of other features which Salome offers which I would explore with time, but yes being open source this is a a real good software to look out for an save your money : ).

Salome site : http://www.salome-platform.org/

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