Resources
This section contains documentation, website links and other resources that may be useful to you as you work with CalculiX or bConverged products.
Documentation
All of this documentation is provided with the installers, accessible from the Windows Start menu.
- Overview of CalculiX for Windows
- Browse CCX docs (by Guido Dhondt)
- Browse CGX docs (by Klaus Wittig)
- Getting Started Guide (PDF)
Here are some additional resources:
YouTube is a great resource for tutorials. Here are a few by Paulo Goncalves:
- a tutorial about using GMSH and Calculix to calculate natural frequencies and mode shapes of a Plate using S4 Elements
- same analysis type, but in this case for a beam
- steady state dynamics (harmonic force)
Known Windows Specific Issues
All feedback, especially bug reports and fixes, are appreciated.
CCX - The CalculiX solver
- There are some test results differences with the Linux/UNIX build.
- There are no other known Windows specific issues with CCX
CGX - The CalculiX pre/post processor
- The on-demand reading of FRD data has been disabled
- There are no other known Windows specific issues with CCX
Relevant links
- The CalculiX Yahoo! Group is the best place to get support when you cannot find the answer in the documentation
- The CalculiX home page.
- CalculiX is available on a Sun Grid as a service
- CCX and CGX are free; you can redistribute them and/or modify them under the terms of the GNU General Public License
- Building CCX requires the library SPOOLES 2.2
- Building CCX requires the library ARPACK
- CGX requires, and comes bundled with, GLUT.
- The application used to build the installer is NSIS