Help on installing CalculiX 2.19 on Windows

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I never install CalculiX to use it on Windows. I just:

  1. download the solver files from here: http://www.dhondt.de/calculix_2.19_4win.zip and unzip them
  2. copy the files to the folder with input file defining my analysis
  3. open command line in this folder (select address bar in file explorer, type cmd and press Enter) - PowerShell won’t work
  4. type: ccx_static input_file_name
  5. after the analysis type: cgx_glut results_file_name.frd to postprocess the simulation in GraphiX

You could also convert the .frd tile to .vtk to do the postprocessing in ParaView but there’s no official converter and the existing ones may not always work.

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