Good comercial packages integrate conveniently all steps required to get results with minimum effort. As I have been demonstrating on previous posts, since open source softwares grew up each in their single box, with specific intents at their time, integration never was a primary concern, however as they matured, naturally, synergies start to take place and each project starts to fit together to supply the integrated platform that everyone is urging for. 2017 will be a year that will bring two interesting versions os software that integrate it all, FreeCAD 0.17 and Salome-Meca 2017.

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