Tag: Salome

  • Installing SALOME-Meca on Windows 10

    Installing SALOME-Meca on Windows 10

    Cyprien Rusu has made very good job (as always) in guiding to install Salome-Meca on Windows platform. But that article is now more than one year old and there has become new downloads available on Code_Aster download page (for Windows).

    I am used to write these kind of short posts about my experiences in installing software so that them could help someone else (and myself too later whenever getting back to the situation).

    So here are my notes about installing Salome-Meca on Windows 10:

    Download page

    1. Go to the download page
    2. Download Salome-Meca 2018 win64 exe-file
    3. After dowloading completed, run the exe-file
    4. Click Next, Next and Install
    Setup window

    Everything should go as expected. The installation is similar to any other Windows software.

    But in my case, when I tried to launch teh software after the installation, I faced the following error:

    Error message: “VCOMP100.DLL was not found”
    After the error message, the program lauch was failed as shown in the console.

    How to get this fixed? Let’s look at the README for an advice. If you used the default installation path you should be able to find it from here (or similar location):

    There is the following note in README-file:

    This version was made as portable as possible. There is no dependecies, but on a fresh windows installation, if you notice an issue using the embeded python version, you may need to install the Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 SP1 Redistributable Package (x64) for Salome and also the Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 SP1 Redistributable Package (x64) for Code_Aster

    In my case, the problem was easily solved by installing Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 SP1 from here. After installing it, Salome launched successfully. Hope this helped you as well!

    Salome launched successfully on Windows 10.

    If you wish to find some further guidance for Salome-Meca in this blog, please drop me a line in the comments below.

  • Installation of Salome-MECA (Salome and Code_Aster)

    Installation of Salome-MECA (Salome and Code_Aster)

    If you are interested in serious open source FEM software, this is a tool stack to look at.

    Salome platform is a CAD and meshing software mainly for Linux systems. When combined with Code_Aster FEA package it is generally called Salome-MECA. Together this combination of software provides very extensive tool set for Finite Element Analysis.

    Let’s start by downloading the appropriate version of Salome-MECA from here. In this tutorial we go with Salome-MECA version 2017.0.2.

    After downloading the package, you may want to check the md5sum to be correct. Type

    md5sum Salome-Meca-2017.0.2-LGPL-2.tgz

    and see if it matches with the one given on the download page.

    After that move the package to a preferred location (for example in /home/user/). And then type

    tar xvf Salome-Meca-2017.0.2-LGPL-2.tgz && ./Salome-Meca-2017.0.2-LGPL-2.run

    This installs Salome-MECA in the directory of your choice.

    Also a shortcut is created on your desktop automatically during the installation.

    After successful installation you can run the program by clicking the shortcut icon or by opening the terminal in the installation folder named salome_meca/appli_V2017.0.2. and typing ./salome

    You will also see Salome-MECA splash screen..

    ..as the graphical user-interface of Salome will open up.

    Now you are ready to explore the capabilities of your new tool set.

    Some document in Code_Aster website’s support section are translated from French automatically and hence not always convenient to read. However, there are very good training materials available at https://www.code-aster.org/V2/spip.php?rubrique68. I recommend you start there.

    Please, leave me a comment if you have any further questions or you would like see some Salome-MECA tutorials in this blog.