DesignSPHysics

DesignSPHysics is a software module built into FreeCAD that provides a Graphical User Interface for DualSPHysics. It is under development since September 2016 and in Beta stage.

Check the Official Webpage for downloads and more information.

News

Training courses

• 4th Hands-on course on experimental and numerical modelling of wave-structure interaction, Florence, Italy, on 1-5 July 2024.
• 7th DualSPHysics Workshop, Politecnico di Bari, Italy, on 19-21 March, 2024.

Releases

• v0.7.0 has been released (15-09-2023). See CHANGELOG file

Description

DesignSPHysics enables the user to create cases with solids and fluids and exports it to a DualSPHysics compatible format. In addition, it does the hard work for the user, generating the case data automatically, simulating, and post-processing, all inside FreeCAD.

It includes support for pre-processing with GenCase, simulation with DualSPHysics and post-processign with several tools of the DualSPHysics package.

In the future the code will be modular, so integration with different SPH solvers can be used. Right now it's optimized to be used with DualSPHysics

It is developed as a FreeCAD module with a macro bootstrapper, in Python 3.5+, using the QT libraries via PySide.

Installation instructions

To install DesignSPHysics you have 2 options: Using the FreeCAD Addon manager for an stable version, or installing manually whatever version that you like from git.

Installing a release version

To install a release version, open FreeCAD 0.18+ and go to the menu Macro -> Macros... From there, press the Addons... button on the bottom right corner, search for DesignSPHysics and click Install / Update. FreeCAD will advise you to reboot the application and you'll be set.

Take in mind that as it includes DualSPHysics, the package may take a while to download.

To execute DesignSPHysics just open the same Macro dialog and double click DualSPHysics.

Installing a development build

Clone the branch that you like from this repository and rename the folder to 'DesignSPHysics'. Then copy the folder to the Mod folder of the FreeCAD installation directory.

By default, for example, in Windows, it is located in %appdata%/FreeCAD/Mod or in Linux in ~/.FreeCAD/Mod

Then copy the file DesignSPHysics.FCMacro of this repository into the FreeCAD macro directory (%appdata%/FreeCAD/Macro on Windows; ~/.FreeCAD/Macro on GNU/Linux)

Where to get help

You can check the DesignSPHysics Wiki to get help. Also, you can post an issue here on GitHub or send an email to any of the people found in the CONTRIBUTING file.

Contributing and developing for DesignSPHysics

You can freely contribute to the project, if you want!. You can do it here on GitHub.

Please check the CONTRIBUTING file to view information about how to contribute to the project.

Copyright and License

Copyright (C) 2019 EPHYSLAB Environmental Physics Laboratory, Universidade de Vigo EPHYTECH Environmental Physics Technologies

This file is part of DesignSPHysics.

DesignSPHysics is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

DesignSPHysics is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with DesignSPHysics. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.