New user issue

Hi

When you have downloaded the files, the first thing is to choose which version of CAELinux you will use:
- the simplest option if you have more than 512Mb ram & more than 10Gb free on your harddisk is to install the VMWare version
- if you want to have a native installation of Linux on your PC for a better performance, you should select the LiveDVD option.

To use the selected version, you should follow the instructions given here:
www.caelinux.com/CMS/index.php?option=co...;id=32&Itemid=40

So to make it short, you should not burn directly the files you have downloaded... so read the previous instructions and everything should work smoothly.

And some other answers:
- Salome has no size limit except the limits imposed by the amount of RAM available on the system
- The other pre processors packaged with CAELinux are: GMSH v2 (generic mesher/post with STEP/IGES support), CGX (Calculix pre-post), ElmerFront (for ELMER)
- The format of the mesh/result files depend on the pre-post & solver that you select. Salome uses MED and UNV for meshes and MED for post-pro, GMSH can save in a large variety of formats etc.. There are also some mesh converters mainly from UNV to other formats (Abaqus/Calculix inp, Impact, OpenFOAM etc..)

Hi,

yes, this seems a good approach and it should work.