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Calculix: A Free Software Three-Dimensional Structural Finite Element Program

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by threatripper

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I have great hope that the CAD & FEM field will benefit greatly from LLM use. To my understanding we currently don't have a free CAD kernel and broadly applicable FEM solver because these are just too hard to make because geometry and physics are hard unforgiving problems. But all pieces of information are available and many implementations covering some details exist. So, the task is a lot of literature research and putting everything together and that's where LLM based agents should shine.
Of course we won't 1-shot a new CAD kernel but the human work will likely shift more towards identifying failure modes, specifying test cases and sometimes solving really hard details. Sometimes even working out details that have no precedent in literature or free code.

by Charon77

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