FAIM
FAIM, which includes the solvers and n88modelgenerator, can be downloaded from the following links. Note that FAIM requires a valid license file to run. Refer to the installation section of the manual.
| Linux | macOS | Windows (64 bit) |
|---|---|---|
| Version 9.0 or Version 9.0 (ARC) | Version 9.0 | |
| Version 8.0 | Version 8.0 | Version 8.0 |
| Version 8.0 (older NVidia cards and drivers) |
n88tools and vtkbone
The above packages alone do not make a complete installation of FAIM. In addition to the binaries in those packages, some parts of FAIM make use of Python. These include the n88tools command line utilities for manipulating finite element model files, and the vtkbone library, which can be used for custom processing of FE models. Because there are many different methods of installing Python, these elements of FAIM are distributed separately.
The easiest way to obtain n88tools and vtkbone is to install Anaconda Python. We recommend Anaconda Python, because in addition to being available for all the operating systems which FAIM runs on, it provides a very large collection of mathematical and scientific Python modules.
If you have Anaconda Python installed, then installing n88tools and vtkbone is as easy as running the following command:
conda install --channel numerics88 --channel conda-forge n88tools
Refer to the installation section for n88tools in the manual for details. In particular, we recommend that you use a dedicated conda environment for FAIM. This is explained in the manual.
n88tools and vtkbone are open-source projects. If you prefer to use some other installation of Python besides Anaconda Python, then you can find the source code for these projects on GitHub at https://github.com/Numerics88.
n88 ParaView Plugins
ParaView plugins for reading FAIM data file formats can be downloaded from the following links. Make sure to chose the correct version for your installation of ParaView. The version must match exactly with ParaView! (The version of FAIM is unimportant.)
| Linux | macOS | Windows (64 bit) |
|---|---|---|
| Version 5.9.1 | Version 5.9.1 | Not supported |
| Version 5.1.2 | Version 5.1.2 | Version 5.1.2 |
| Version 4.4 | Version 4.4 | |
| Version 4.2 | Version 4.2 | |
| Version 3.14 | Version 3.14 |
The n88 ParaView Plugins are open-source, and the source code can be found at https://github.com/Numerics88. However, compiling plugins for ParaView is not trivial, and we do not generally recommend that you compile them yourself.