CodeAster

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Code_Aster is a GPL licensed general purpose Finite Element Program developed by EDF. The website of the community whose leader is EDF is HERE

Code_Aster Study

The new GUI inside Salome-MECA. Here the initial presentation

Installation (Version 10.2)

• exploding the "tar" of the source file into, for example /usr/local/src,
• reading the README file
• then run python setup.py install that will install into the default /opt/aster
• Verify, installed packages, at this aster forum post: http://www.code-aster.org/forum2/viewtopic.php?id=14215
• With the opensuse 11.2 distribution no particular customization have to be done except the lack of a symbolic link to the runtime fortran 77 library that was absent (the symbolic link)

ln -s libg2c.so.0.0.0 libg2c.so

The library is in the package libg2c33

• Pay attention not to run the test case as root if you have installed the software as root in /opt/aster. In fact the software open a directory under /tmp then when you will run the program as normal user you won't get access to the directory. During the run of the test that tries to write under /opt/aster you will receive an error message that is not severe because probably the test input file directs the writing of some files to the root owned directory.
• In the file .bash_profile the path for executables should be added in the following way:

# set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists
if [ -d /opt/aster/bin ] ; then
    PATH="${PATH}":/opt/aster/bin
fi

• check passwordless connection with ssh see here
• remember to override the default editor indication, nedit, in the file .astkrc/config

Two Version on the Same Machine

http://www.code-aster.org/wiki/doku.php?id=en:p02_install:linux

Interface

The interface is be the program astk via a client/server approach, the solver can run on a server while the user files are on a client machine. The french manual are at the following link

Documentation

Jump to CodeAsterDocumentation. CodeAsterGlossary for French translations

Mesh Tools

Use the following page CodeAsterMeshing

-- RobertoBernetti - 28 Jul 2010