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Old 09-03-2009, 01:43 PM   #11 (permalink)
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Alibre is a pretty good package that is MUCH cheaper than Solidworks.

One major upside to Alibre is that it readily saves in ACIS format. Doing some research, Gambit can make meshes from ACIS files. OpenFOAM can convert Gambit meshes for its own use.

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