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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 (opensource symbolic&numerical)
http://andrejv.github.com/wxmaxima/
http://maxima.sourceforge.net/

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CmathOOoCAS (open-source symbolic&numerical

for spreadsheets)
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http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/en/project/C **
mathOOoCAS
Mathcad like software for Writer
http://extensions.libreoffice.org/extensioncenter/imath

Mathcad like software for Writer

http://sourceforge.net/projects/comppad/

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Smath Studio (standalone mathcad like freeware)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMath_Studio
http://www.smathstudio.com/

*** Generally I don't like this philosophy

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(but can be good for old mathcaders)

Professional numerical Software

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

R, RkWard - Statistical software, open-source

http://rkward.sourceforge.net/

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has serios bugs (crashes program when saving

inserted images)

For Structures
Beam and Shell Elements - for Structural Engineers
Wolsink FrameWork (best freeware for beam
elements)
http://members.ziggo.nl/wolsink/
LISA-FET (multiphysics software with classical
GUI)
http://www.lisa-fet.com/

*** Try it, it's rare case when the good engineer and
*** programmer is in one person
*** Demo up to 1,300 nodes can be used for
** commercial. Very liberal license and good

cheapware
Frame3dd (beam elements)
http://frame3dd.sourceforge.net/

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LinPro (2D frames, static &dynamic)

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

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MASTAN (nonlinear analisys)

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

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Multiphysics/mechanical software
CalculiX - A Free Software Three-Dimensional
Structural Finite Element Program
http://www.calculix.de/
http://www.dhondt.de/
http://www.calculixforwin.com/

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Nice and Good documented software
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Code-Aster
http://www.code-aster.org

*** ISO Certified industrial software

** (but in French)

http://tochnog.sourceforge.net/

*** Can be useful for soil problems

IMPACT - Explicit dynamic analysis

http://impact.sourceforge.net

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LS-Dyna like software
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ELMER FEM
http://sourceforge.net/projects/elmerfem/

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Good but too much science
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Also see
http://www.z88.uni-bayreuth.de/english.html

why 88???

Free Meshers
GMSH
http://geuz.org/gmsh/

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

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CGX
http://www.dhondt.de/

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2D-CAD /dwg

A9CAD
Google it, the official website is dead

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Simple good dwg up to 2005
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ProgeCAD Smart - free last DWG but for

home/student use only
Google It

Nanocad - free with registration, can't say more

http://nanocad.com/

Generally it's not free

but home/cheapware

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

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This is classical concept of 3d CAD
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Freecad
http://free-cad.sourceforge.net/

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good for simple models
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Narocad (.NET Opencascade based)

http://narocad.com/

gCAD3D
http://www.gcad3d.org/

*** can be good for dxf2 iges,step conversion

For Programming
Delphi-like multiplatform
http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/

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It's the Best Free RAD for Programming
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Rapid-Q Basic, RQ-Work

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/rapidq/
https://sites.google.com/site/rqwork/news

*** See above and learn pascal

Just for Fun (simulators)

http://www.armadillorun.com/
Numpty Physics
http://numptyphysics.garage.maemo.org/

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