> broadly applicable FEM solver gmsh/Calculix is great. Sure it doesn't reach quite as far as Ansys, but you can solve real meaningful problems with it. > we

> broadly applicable FEM solver gmsh/Calculix is great. Sure it doesn't reach quite as far as Ansys, but you can solve real meaningful problems with it. > we currently don't have a free CAD kernel BRLCAD is OK and OCCT is pretty good. The hard part isn't the CAD kernel; it's the user interface and interconnects.