ANSYS

Figures, Plotting, Graph Origin, Windows, GUI Inkscape Matlab Paraview Gnuplot, unix OS, TUI Mathematica xfig   LibreOffice Draw (1) Origin Pro: professional level, full-ledged, with statistics function Con: not free, not sure if there is free evaluation version (2) Origin-like software, QtiPlot derived QtiPlot is not free; Labplot is Linux only! SciDavis  is cross-platform, a fork from QtiPlot, python scriptable Pro: SciDavis  is free under GPLv2, without any restriction Con: SciDavis and  Labplot stop at the early development stage; less functions than origin. (3) script byMatlab, pyLab(matplotlib), gnuplot Pro: good for bath processing, tight integration with data generation codes in matlab or python Con: need programming experience (4) Office Excel or LibreOffice Pro:  widely available, good for report generation, Con: Mouse drag edit is not supported, not for high quality plot (5) Paraview or other FEA and CFD

Meshing software comparison ·         Tgrid (now named Fluent meshing) ·         Ansys meshing ·         ICEM CFD ·         Pointwise ·         GAMBIT ·         Hypermesh ·         Gridpro ·         Turbogrid  Top down method - ICEM CFD, Gridpro Bottom up - Pointwise ANSYS Meshing Combines and builds on strengths of preprocessing offerings from ANSYS:   ICEM CFD, TGRID (Fluent Meshing), CFX-Mesh, Gambit a general purpose meshing tool that leverages the libraries from the more advanced ANSYS meshing modules, delivering an easy to use and parametric meshing solution.  The tool works with fully associative CAD geometry, allowing for automatic updates and easy to use parametric studies.  The mesh types supported are: ·         Tetrahedral ·         Hexahedral ·         Prismatic inflation layer ·         Hexahedral inflation layer ·         Hexahedral core ·         Body fitted Cartesian ·         Cut cell Cartesian