Free Full Working Trials
and More!
There are too many software for choosing the right one which can fit best to your needs. While CAD and specially CAE applications can be very expensive, a choice can be a big mistake. The only way to understand the capabilities is testing them in real conditions. Some companies give their products to potential clients with fully working condition by the limitation of usage time, say a month or 20 runs etc. So try and compare them before buying... Here you can find some links but of course there are more on the net.
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| FreeShip; is an an excellent free&open source! surface modeler for ship design | Cosmos/Floworks; a general purpose CFD add-on for Solidworks. | |
| Maxsurf Academic; is for any student of Naval Architecture, Yacht Design or Marine Engineering and free, fully functional, 3 surface version of Maxsurf. | Gridgen; a full working time limited trial of one of the most powerfull cross platform grid gneration software is available. | |
| Multisurf; a fully parametric surface modeler for marine design and has very rich surface creation approaches other than nurbs. | ShipWorks; is addon for SolidWorks for investigating the hydrodynamic properties of hull for computation to find the wave pattern and wave resistance. | |
| Pro/DESKTOP Express; actually not a trial, a completely free feature based solid modeler! This version is cripelled but yet capable version of Pro/Engineer. | XFLR5; is an adaptation of Drela’s and Youngren’s original XFoil , designed to support a Windows type interface, and ported to C++ language for greater flexibility. XFLR5 supports the "Analysis" features directly derived from XFoil. It is totally Free! | |
| Prosurf; a Nurbs based surface modeler, a unique feature is the surface control points which lie on the surface unlike all other nurbs modelers. | ||
| Rhinoceros; the most popular, nurbs based, free form modeling tool. |
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| SeaSolution; is comfortable tool for geometric design especially for fairing lines and shell plates development | Cosmos/Designstar;
a general purpose, easy to use fea solver and post processor for
wide range of solid modeling kernels. |
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| Surfacewoks; a variant of Multisurf, can also work as a Solidworks add-on. | Cosmos/M; the most comprehensive product of the cosmos family. | |
| Cosmos/Works; a relatively new version of cosmos product family, actually a Solidworks add-on. | ||
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| Home Planet is a comprehensive astronomy / space / satellite-tracking package for Windows. It is a free software. | ||
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last
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23-May-2007
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