News on the wiki

[Michaël Baudin]

Hi,

There was recently several users asking for support of finite element 
tools in Scilab. As this question was asked regularly, we gathered the 
informations we have on the wiki :

http://wiki.scilab.org/Finite_Elements_in_Scilab

The goal of this page is to present the finite element tools which are 
available in the Scilab environment. It presents the Femtruss module and 
the connection between Scilab and the FreeFem, OpenFem and GetFem modules.

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We often provide support for users who provide packages on Atoms. There 
are simple practices which are sometimes forgotten. The main reason is 
that we often tend to develop a program only for ourselves, and forget 
that other users may have troubles with the tools we have created. The 
most common of these advices are gathered on the wiki page :

http://wiki.scilab.org/Guidelines_To_Design_a_Module

In this page, we briefly present the "Toolbox skeleton". We also 
presents methods which avoid function name conflicts, advices on the 
help pages, the content of these pages and the API of a module.

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There are several interesting resources on the web which compare the 
features and performances of Scilab versus other softwares, including 
Matlab, Octave, etc... We gathered these documents on the wiki, in the 
"Comparison of Scientific Technical Softwares" section of the Tutorials 
page:

http://wiki.scilab.org/Tutorials

They cover the years from 1999 to 2010. Most of them are very 
interesting. Still, we should be aware that some of the informations are 
not up-to-date, given that Scilab is constantly evolving.

Best regards,

Michaël Baudin

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Michaël Baudin
Ingénieur de développement
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