Re: FEMM Vs. commercial code

["marsupiofr" <marsupio@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

--- In femm@xxxx, "marsupiofr" <marsupio@xxxx> wrote:
> --- In femm@xxxx, David Meeker <dmeeker@xxxx> wrote:
> > 
> 
> Just a note on the fact that FEMM would not be bullet proof for 
> bugs : can we say that commercial programs are really bullet proof 
> for bugs ? I do not think so. With my experience, I think honestly 
> that FEMM is not more or less stable than a commercial program. I 
> really achieved some huge simulations with FEMM for my PhD thesis : 
> repeating 15 hours simulation on a 1.2GHz x86 computer with LUA 
> automation - no problems and this piece of software really saved my 
> life for this PhD thesis.

I forgot to mention that in my Lab we have :

- EFCAD (a 2D FE package developped in my Lab but no longer 
maintained)
- Flux 2D
- Opera 3D
- Ansys

and I chose .... FEMM !!! because :

1) It's a great software (see former posts)
2) I like the philosophy of free softwares and I tried, in my PhD 
thesis, to work only with non commercial softs. I generally found 
them more effective, more stable than anything else. Here are the 
tools I used : LaTeX, FEMM, Gnuplot, G++,... It's a personal 
philosophy, that's all.