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Calculix

Setup and compilation from source

To use Calculix in multithreading mode it is needed to compile from source. In order to do so it is necessary to compile ARPACK and SPOOLES library and install the required tools. The code which is presented here is already changed and ready for compilation. Please read the original documentation first from here.

Tools

  1. Install the required tools for Calculix:

    • gfortran

    • make

    • f2c

    • liblapack3

    • liblapack-dev

    • libexodusii-dev

    • libgl1-mesa-dev

    • libglu1-mesa-dev

    • libxi-dev

    • libxmu-dev

    • gcc

using your package manager. For Ubuntu and Debian-oriented system the command should be like:

sudo apt-get install gfortran make f2c liblapack3 liblapack-dev libexodusii-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libglu1-mesa-dev libxi-dev libxmu-dev

SPOOLES

SPOOLES library should be obtained from this site using wget command.

wget http://www.netlib.org/linalg/spooles/spooles.2.2.tgz

After downloading the file, it is mandatory to create folder SPOOLES.2.2. Move the archive there and unpack it. It can be done with the following commands:

mkdir SPOOLES.2.2
mv spooles.2.2.tgz SPOOLES.2.2
cd SPOOLES.2.2
tar xvf spooles.2.2.tgz

Change directory to SPOOLES.2.2 with cd:

cd SPOOLES.2.2

Then uncomment 14 line and comment line 15 in Make.inc file with your text editor. It can be done by:

gedit Make.inc

The file after changes should look like:

CC = gcc
#  CC = /usr/lang-4.0/bin/cc

Now the files are ready for compilation. Use:

make lib

Then it is needed to compile the MT library. It is done with following commands:

cd MT/src/
make

ARPACK

Next step is to compile ARPACK library. It is needed to download 2 separate archives. Obtain it from here and here.

wget https://www.caam.rice.edu/software/ARPACK/SRC/arpack96.tar.gz
wget https://www.caam.rice.edu/software/ARPACK/SRC/patch.tar.gz

Then unpack files with tar commands

tar xvf arpack96.tar.gz
tar xvf patch.tar.gz

  • In ARPACK/ARmake.inc change:

    • home = $(HOME)/ARPACK to your ARPACK directory

    • PLAT = SUN4 to PLAT = linux

    • FC = f77 to FC = gfortran

    • FFLAGS = -O -cg89 to FFLAGS = -O2

    • MAKE = /bin/make to MAKE = make

    • SHELL = /bin/sh to SHELL = shell

  • In ARPACK/UTIL/second.f change: EXTERNAL ETIME to *EXTERNAL ETIME

Then mowe to ARPACK directory and run:

make lib

Calculix compilation

Obtain Calculix source code using wget to your Calculix directory.

wget http://www.dhondt.de/ccx_2.17.src.tar.bz2

To unpack archieve use:

bunzip2 ccx_2.17.src.tar.bz2
tar xvf ccx_2.17.src.tar

In order to compile Calculix in multithreading mode it is needed to change the Makefile from singlethread to multithread one. It can be simply done by:

cd CalculiX/ccx_2.17/src
mv Makefile Makefile_ST
mv Makefile_MT Makefile

  • In Makefile change:

    • CC=cc to CC=gcc

    • in 15 line ../../../ARPACK/libarpack_INTEL.a \ to ../../../ARPACK/libarpack_linux.a \

Then it is possible to compile Calculix with:

make

Happy meshing!

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CAE is a software package mainly consisting of CalculiX GraphiX, CrunchiX and keyword editor.

unv2ccx is a mesh converter that allows to convert Salome UNV file into CalculiX INP file.

ccx2paraview is a Calculix results converter which creates a Paraview compatible file.

pycalculix is a Python 3 library to automate and build finite element analysis (FEA) models in Calculix.

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