Uploaded April 2020 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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One of the more impressive workbenchs FreeCAD has to offer is the FEM Workbench. The FEM Workbench allows us to analyze various forces on our designs.

In this tutorial I demonstrate how to get your first result. The difficulty with the FEM workbench is that there a number of required steps that are non-obvious ( at least to us lesser mortals )

Some additonal resources are available at my crappy website:
Installing Calculix: mathcodeprint.com/calculix-install-2-11-1build1
Installing GSMH: mathcodeprint.com/gmsh-install-3-0-6

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