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1)Most of free software below are available for commercial use.
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3) Google all these names and links to find more information.

For Math

Maxima, wxMaxima and related projects (open-

source symbolic&numerical) ***
http://andrejv.github.com/wxmaxima/ **
http://maxima.sourceforge.net/

CmathOOoCAS (open-source symbolic&numerical

for spreadsheets) ***
http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/en/project/C **
mathOOoCAS

Mathcad like software for Writer

http://extensions.libreoffice.org/extension- ?
center/imath

Mathcad like software for Writer has serios bugs (crashes program when saving
***
http://sourceforge.net/projects/comppad/ inserted images)

Smath Studio (standalone mathcad like freeware)

*** Generally I don't like this philosophy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMath_Studio
* (but can be good for old mathcaders)
http://www.smathstudio.com/

Professional numerical Software

http://www.scilab.org/ ?
http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/

R, RkWard - Statistical software, open-source ***

http://rkward.sourceforge.net/ **

For Structures

Beam and Shell Elements - for Structural Engineers

Wolsink FrameWork (best freeware for beam

*** Try it, it's rare case when the good engineer and
elements)
*** programmer is in one person
http://members.ziggo.nl/wolsink/

LISA-FET (multiphysics software with classical *** Demo up to 1,300 nodes can be used for
GUI) ** commercial. Very liberal license and good
http://www.lisa-fet.com/
 cheapware

Frame3dd (beam elements)

***
http://frame3dd.sourceforge.net/

LinPro (2D frames, static &dynamic)

***
http://www.line.co.ba/

MASTAN (nonlinear analisys) ***

http://www.mastan2.com/download.html *

Multiphysics/mechanical software

CalculiX - A Free Software Three-Dimensional

Structural Finite Element Program
***
http://www.calculix.de/ Nice and Good documented software
***
http://www.dhondt.de/
http://www.calculixforwin.com/

Code-Aster *** ISO Certified industrial software

http://www.code-aster.org ** (but in French)

http://tochnog.sourceforge.net/ *** Can be useful for soil problems

IMPACT - Explicit dynamic analysis ***

LS-Dyna like software
http://impact.sourceforge.net *

ELMER FEM ***

Good but too much science
http://sourceforge.net/projects/elmerfem/ *

Also see
why 88???
http://www.z88.uni-bayreuth.de/english.html

Free Meshers

GMSH ***
http://geuz.org/gmsh/ **

NETGEN ***
http://sourceforge.net/projects/netgen-mesher/ ***

CGX ***
http://www.dhondt.de/ **

2D-CAD /dwg
A9CAD ***
Simple good dwg up to 2005
Google it, the official website is dead *

ProgeCAD Smart - free last DWG but for

home/student use only ?
Google It Generally it's not free
but home/cheapware
Nanocad - free with registration, can't say more
?
http://nanocad.com/

3D-CAD
Salome-Platform - Classical Industrial Software
(OpenCascade based)
http://www.salome-platform.org/ ***
This is classical concept of 3d CAD
For Windows **
here, here and here for VMWare
youtube

Freecad ***
good for simple models
http://free-cad.sourceforge.net/ **

Narocad (.NET Opencascade based)

?
http://narocad.com/

gCAD3D
*** can be good for dxf2 iges,step conversion
http://www.gcad3d.org/

For Programming
Delphi-like multiplatform ***
It's the Best Free RAD for Programming
http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/ ***

Rapid-Q Basic, RQ-Work

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/rapidq/ *** See above and learn pascal
https://sites.google.com/site/rqwork/news

Just for Fun (simulators)

http://www.armadillorun.com/

Numpty Physics
http://numptyphysics.garage.maemo.org/
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