Offline native FEA for Mac: guided 7-stage engineering use cases, StudioFX Creator physics, Beta Autopilot solving, local AI Agent Hub to work with claude,chatgpt CLIs
FEA Lab is a professional finite element analysis workbench for macOS. Designed for aerospace, mechanical, civil, and biomedical engineers — plus researchers and students — it pairs a complete end-to-end workflow (geometry, mesh, materials, boundary conditions, solve, post-process) with GPU-accelerated compute: Metal GPU preconditioned conjugate gradient, and on-device neural reduced-order modelling.
Every click that used to invoke a cloud service or a slow pure-JS fallback now dispatches to a Metal or Accelerate kernel on your Mac. No account, no telemetry, no network round-trips — just local computation at full hardware speed.
FEA Lab covers 20 analysis types: linear static, modal, transient dynamic, nonlinear static, thermal steady-state, thermal transient, coupled thermo-mechanical, buckling, harmonic response, random vibration, fatigue (stress-life), topology optimisation, shape optimisation, fluid-structure interaction, explicit dynamics, creep, contact, fracture mechanics, multibody dynamics, and electromagnetics.
All 20 types are configurable from the Solver Hub — choose between direct LU, iterative GMRES or Conjugate Gradient solvers, select a preconditioner, set convergence tolerances, toggle Metal GPU acceleration, and hit Run.
NAFEMS benchmark suite built-in: run the T1–T6 thermal and LE1–LE10 linear-elastic benchmarks in one click and verify against published reference values.
Requirements: macOS 14 or later, 8 GB RAM recommended.
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• Every use case now steps cleanly through the 7-stage FEA pipeline (1. Problem & CAD → 2. Material → 3. Conditions & Loads → 4. Mesh → 5. Solve → 6. Visualize → 7. Safety & Export) with distinct 3D/2D geometries, One-Click Fix design upgrades, 3D Mohr's Circle, fatigue life, and tornado sensitivity charts.
• One-click Autopilot sequentially solves Prestressed Modal, Harmonic FRF, Riks–Crisfield Post-Buckling, LEFM/XFEM & Cohesive Zone DCB, LPBF Additive Manufacturing, Heaviside SIMP Topology Optimization, Adjoint Sizing/Fillet Optimization, NSGA-II Pareto Optimization, and NASTRAN .bdf / STEP CAD Import.
• Built-in 18-Solver Scientific Dossier with analytical verification proofs, Roache GCI convergence estimators, and local Agent Hub MCP/HTTP automation.
Version 2.3.1
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