I work in this field and it really is stagnant and dominated by high-priced Ansys/etc. For some reason silicon valley's open sourceness hasn't touched it. For o

I work in this field and it really is stagnant and dominated by high-priced Ansys/etc. For some reason silicon valley's open sourceness hasn't touched it. For open source, there's CalculiX which is full of bugs and Code Aster which everybody I've heard about it from say it's too confusing to use. CalculiX has Prepomax as a fairly new and popular pre/post.