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keithsloan52 wrote: ↑Thu Jan 26, 2023 3:05 pm
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They have a FreeCAD workbench which you are probably aware of https://wiki.freecadweb.org/FEM_FrontISTR_Workbench. It uses/exploits GPU's. Now I suspect that there are a lot of smaller Engineering firms that have not yet invested in GPU's. Might be worth research if OmdSel could offerNon-Linear FEM analysis says based on https://aws.amazon.com/nvidia/ or Azure.
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If the corporate world want to get involved with FOSS then perhaps some sponsorships would be in order.
The cost of 100 seats of any other major CAD package would set a corporation back big time
and so sponsorship is an option for them.
There is also a real need for training as not everyone has a passion for what they do and most
big firms have some kind of training budget - even for other big CAD packages.
I can only see positive benefits for everyone including me as an individual all the way through
to large corporations. In my view a logical step in the FOSS world.
I am not aware of the political overtones expressed by others in this thread but in my humble opinion
only good can come.