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Sie koennen Z88Aurora einen fast beliebigen Look spendieren, weil Z88Aurora mit GTK+ arbeitet - waehlen Sie ein anderes Theme: Hier das Vorgehen fuer Windows (es ist etwas tricky, funktioniert aber dann sehr schoen): 1) Suchen Sie sich unter http://art.gnome.org/themes/gtk2 eine kommodes Theme aus. ...

Hello Finzi, unfortunatelly no, because of legal reasons. Here's one: Z88Aurora is developed by our team at the University of Bayreuth, Germany (a state university of the federal state of Bavaria). The open source Z88 V14 was and is developed by me alone and the development was begun in 1985, long b...

No problem at all - You have more than one possibilities: 1) Use any 3D-CAD system, design your mirror and export it in STL or STEP format. Read this file into Z88Aurora, mesh it with tetrahedrons (Tetgen or Netgen) and supply boundary conditions and material. Solve the problem. See examples > impor...

I understand. You want to define a join to a node. Unfortunatelly, this is in general not possible for ordinary beam elements - one needs two special beam elements, one with all dof on the left side but no bending dof on the right side, and one element just vice versa. Combining this two special ele...

What do you mean exactly with 'releasing a DOF'? Please explain what you want to do.

Hello Andrea,

many thanks for your publication of the project/make files for LCCWIN32. Certainly interesting for folks using this fine free compiler.

Best regards
Prof. Rieg

Hello Andrea, in fact, LCCWIN32 is a fine compiler and in the past I compiled Z88 with it. I did not try it with the version 14 but it should and will work anyway. Perhaps this would be the easyist way: Go to the Directory /src, then to /z88r and mix the files of /common and /win into one new direct...

Hallo Hans59,

ich wuerde die Schwinge als 3D-Bauteile mit Tetraedern (Tetgen oder Netgen) vernetzen.

Viele Gruesse

Prof. Rieg

Hello Wohenke, indeed, you are right! I checked your Z88NI.TXT file with the OpenSource Z88V14OS using the file checker Z88VRY.PL (see directory /perl) und ran it through the mapped mesher Z88N of Z88V14OS - works fine. In fact, Z88Aurora stops with an error message - it seems to me that there is so...

Hello, I guess you mention this description which was taken from z88mane.pdf from Z88V14OS (please refer for further questions to the new version Z88V14OS): "For super elements 2-dimensional No. 7, 8, 11, 12 and 20: SE Element number Super element type Type of the finite elements to be produced...

Hello Inqusitor, yes, the two linear solvers Z88R (Open Source Z88 and Z88Aurora) are quite identical - i know it quite exactly because i wrote them both. Here are the differences: - the Z88Aurora solver Z88R features with the -parao option multi-CPU support (this is only of interest for large 3D st...

Hello Inquisitor, basically, Z88R from Z88Aurora needs the same input files as Z88R from the open source Z88 V14, i.e. - Z88I1.TXT (very similar to Z88STRUCTURE.TXT) - Z88I2.TXT (the boundary conditions) - Z88I5.TXT (the surface loads) - Z88ELP.TXT (the element parameters) - Z88INT.TXT (the integrat...

I've tested Z88AuroraV2 running Windows 8, Enterprise Evaluation (see microsoft.com) in a virtual machine (Virtual Box from Oracle, VMware Player did not work i.e. the authorisation with Microsoft) - and Z88Aurora works fine without any problems :D Install from the Internet as follows: Press App &qu...

Ich habe Z88AuroraV2 auf Windows 8, Enterprise Evaluation (gibt's bei Microsoft, vgl. c't 19, S.96 ff, http://www.ct.de/1219096) in einer virtuellen Maschine (Virtual Box von Oracle, VMware Player ging bei mir nicht) getestet - klappt alles, wie es soll :D Die Installation aus dem Internet laeuft wi...

Per default the QuickTime player will be loaded; you'll need in addition Flip4Mac. Sometimes this combination does not work very well. Here's help: Load VLC player, see http://www.videolan.org/vlc/. Install it and make it visible to Z88Aurora: Select Tools > Options > Paths. The VLC-Player is locate...