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CAELinux

Dedicated to computer-aided engineering Linux distribution

CAELinux is an installable live (USB) Linux distribution dedicated to open source engineering with a focus on Computer Aided Engineering and Scientific Computing. Based on Ubuntu, it features a ready to use workstation environment for open source product development, makers and scientist with many CAD/CAM/CAE applications for mechanical design, stress analysis, heat transfer, flow simulation and CNC manufacturing / 3D printing as well as electronic design tools and a complete development environment for scientific computing & mathematical modeling. A special focus of CAELinux is to provide simplified interfaces to facilitate the use of specialized open source software while providing high performance parallel multiphysics solvers ready to use for more advanced users. Try CAELinux or carry it with you on a USB stick in a live environment or install it to turn your PC into a full fledged Ubuntu based CAE workstation. It's all up to you what you can do with it!

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Downloads: 190 This Week

Last Update: 2020-10-24
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3D Printable Chess Set

This is a chess set that can be printed out on a 3D printer. (all are tested on a CupCake CNC)

Downloads: 0 This Week

Last Update: 2015-07-26
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CNC-slicer_Blender-plugin

Blender plugin slicer that generates gcode for CNC machines.

Blender plugin that slices an stl model and generates gcode for CNC machines. This plugin doesn't slices the model itself, instead it uses the capabilities of Slic3r, a 3D printer slicer and adapts the gcode for CNC Machines.

Downloads: 0 This Week

Last Update: 2018-08-06
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