CAID is a multi-platform software that has been designed for IsoGeometric Analysis Pre and Post Processing. Its design goal is to provide a fast, light and user-friendly designer and meshing tool.

The Post-Processing and advanced visualization capabilities are still under development, as well as an optimized 3D computing engine.

For more details, please read CAID

NumPy is the fundamental package for scientific computing with Python

Installation can be done using

sudo apt-get install python-numpy

SciPy is a Python-based ecosystem of open-source software for mathematics, science, and engineering.

Installation can be done using

sudo apt-get install python-scipy

You can install both numpy and scipy using

sudo apt-get install python-numpy python-scipy python-matplotlib ipython ipython-notebook python-pandas python-sympy python-nose

igakit is a package that implements many of the NURBS routines from Piegl's book using Fortran and Python.

Install wxGTK 2.8 with the command

sudo apt-get install python-wxgtk2.8

Verify that everything is OK

import wx
import wxversion

PyOpenGL is the most common cross platform Python binding to OpenGL and related APIs.

Installation can be done using pip

sudo pip install PyOpenGL PyOpenGL_accelerate

Installation can be done by runing the following command, giving PATH_FOR_INSTALLATION

python setup.py install --prefix=PATH_FOR_INSTALLATION 

Add the following lines in your .bashrc/.bash_profile by replacing PATH_TO_CAID_SRC

# CAID 
alias caid="python $PATH_TO_CAID_SRC/src/main.py"
#

Runing CAID can be done in different ways.

• without any argument

  caid

• with a given workgroup session

  caid session.wkl

• with given domains files session

  caid domain1.xml domain2.xml domain3.xml

• with a given field file

  caid U.pfl