Approval of SALOME 2 Project Reflects Growing Industrial Interest in an Open-source Framework to Integrate CAD and Finite Elements

With a Membership That has Grown From 9 to 21 Participants, This Major Initiative Allows the Partners to Capitalize on Their Expertise and Investments in Numerical Simulation While Providing Strategic Independence

PARIS, May 31 /PRNewswire/ -- Led by the Open CASCADE company, a coalition of partners representing leading industrial companies, specialized software editors and research organisms in the aeronautics, automotive, energy, electrical engineering, naval, geosciences, petroleum and building sectors, will join forces to enrich the original SALOME platform and to increase its international promotion. SALOME, an open-source framework developed with Open CASCADE components, provides the base for building pre- and post processors for the specific solvers used by the different project members.

By enabling CAD interoperability and providing a multi-physics environment, SALOME allows building more efficient simulation solutions. Thanks to these solutions, industrial companies can achieve greater product quality in less time with enhanced market competitiveness.

Approved at the end of April by the French National Network of Research and Innovation in Software Technologies (RNTL), the SALOME 2 project represents 975 developer/months provided by the partners. SALOME 2 modules include CAD data preparation for analysis, meshing, physical properties, and graphical post-processing of results. Among the features to be added are supervision of distributed computation, supplementary mesh-generation algorithms, a material databank and analysis data management capabilities.

With an eye to the long term, one of the key exploratory actions is to study the application of virtual reality techniques to the postprocessing of results. This action is driven by INRIA and CEA/LIST and is based on the PERF- RV project.

Sharing developments provides greater efficiency

The SALOME 2 production model is based on the mutualization of individual developments. Each of the eight platform modules is driven by one partner with contributions from the others. As a specialist in the integration of CAD with specific pre- and postprocessors, the Open CASCADE company provides technical services via the Web to support collaborative production. These include development environment, source code, fixes, roadmap and information system.

Participating in SALOME 2 allows members to focus on their core competence in physical and numerical simulation, while optimizing their investment in the user environment. They can derive specific pre- and postprocessors for each of their specialized solvers without having to pay license fees for the Open CASCADE source code. Members are free to decide whether derived developments will be Open Source or proprietary.
Since the open-source model on which the SALOME platform is based encourages the spread of results and the adhesion of new contributors to the initiative, current members plan to create a SALOME Club that is open to potential participants.

SALOME Project Members

The founding members of the SALOME project include:
Industrial companies: Bureau Veritas, CEA, EADS, EDF;
Editors: CEDRAT, Principia;
Research groups: INPG/LEG, LIP6;
Service provider: Open CASCADE

Industrial companies participating in SALOME 2 are: IFP, Renault;
Editors: ESI Software, MENSI;
Research groups: BRGM, CSTB, Ecole des Mines de Paris, INRIA, L3S, LJLL
Paris 6 and LMA Pau.

GOSET participates in the adoption of the STEP standard in SALOME, specifically as concerns data management.

Open CASCADE

The Open CASCADE company brings greater productivity to industrial customers and software editors by assisting them in the creation of value-added applications. To attain this goal, Open CASCADE provides turnkey application development and a broad range of services based on an innovative open-source approach. These services include consulting, technical assistance, training and project expertise and aim to bring about the optimal implementation of the user's development project. Open CASCADE customers include leading industrial companies, software editors and research organisms, such as Alcatel Space, BMW, CEA, EADS, Mitutoyo, RINA, Samtech, Usinor and Yazaki.

In the domain of numerical simulation, Open CASCADE develops pre- and postprocessors tailored to specific solvers or to company know-how and company rules for simulation. The development team can optimize CAD interoperability with an in-house system to ensure CAD data reuse between the designer and the analysis specialist. Open CASCADE provides consulting adapted to project needs, integration of data exchange and meshing capabilities, and creation of a numerical simulation-specific interface that reduce development time and cost for industrial users.

Open CASCADE is the leading open-source tool for 3D modeling worldwide and is used for the development of trade-specific technical and scientific applications ranging from mechanical CAD/CAM/CAE to AEC (Architecture, Engineering and Construction) and GIS (Geographical Information Systems).

The Open CASCADE components can be downloaded free of charge at: http://www.opencascade.com/getoc

 

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