A curated list of awesome CAE frameworks, libraries and software.

Libraries mainly meant for preprocessing of data before simulation

• pyNastran - pyNastran is an interface library to the various Nastran file formats (BDF, OP2, OP4)
• qd-ansa - python utility library for scripting in Beta CAE suite
• abapy - Abaqus Python “AbaPy” contains tools to build, postprocess and plot automatic finite element simulations using Abaqus.
• AbqParse - A simple parser for Abaqus input files that parses out the keywords, parameters, and data lines.
• abaqus2dyna - abaqus2dyna is a script to convert, in a limited fashion, Abaqus keyword inputfiles to LS-DYNA keyword input files.
• pycalculix - pycalculix is a Python 3 library to automate and build finite element analysis (FEA) models in Calculix.
• pyDOE - library for creating design of experiments studies
• meshpy - MeshPy offers quality triangular and tetrahedral mesh generation for Python
• pymesh - PyMesh — Geometry Processing Library for Python

• ABAQUS-US - A variety of ABAQUS user element (UELs) and user material (UMATs) subroutines
• ABAQUS_Subroutines - Viscoplastic UMAT, rotational body force UEL, UMAT implmenentation of Linder et al. 2011
• ABAQUS_Subroutines 2 - collection of abaqus user materials

• SU2 - SU2 is a C++ suite of tools for the numerical solution of partial differential equations (PDE) and performing PDE constrained optimization, primary for CFD.
• OpenFoam - Open Source CFD solver
• jobwatch - Abaqus Job Status Plotter
• NASTRAN-95 - FEM solver
• abaqus-fortran-env-setup - Files and docs to assist getting Abaqus with Intel Fortran development environment configured.
• OpenBLAS - OpenBLAS is an optimized BLAS library
• PyOP2 - Framework for performance-portable parallel computations on unstructured meshes
• pyamg - Algebraic Multigrid Solvers in Python

This section contains software regarding postprocessing

• qd - CAE python library for reading binary LS-DYNA result files and some other smaller CAE related utilities.
• pyNastran - pyNastran is an interface library to the various Nastran file formats (BDF, OP2, OP4)
• matlab-lsdyna - Reader of ascii results files from the Finite Element solver LS-DYNA, and a wrapper to run LS-DYNA simulations programmatically from MATLAB.
• postPro4Abq - Python scripts to read and process an odb file.
• ParaView - ParaView is an open-source, multi-platform data analysis and visualization application based on Visualization Toolkit (VTK).
• abaqusPython - A collection of frequently used abaqus scripts and other useful gems!
• matplotlib-4-abaqus - Allow abaqus(v6.14-1) to use matplotlib in its build-in python scripts environment.
• colorbrewer-colormaps-4-abaqus - An easy way to use the beautiful color schemes in Abaqus to plot contour.

Tools for doing optimization.

• opti4Abq - An optimisation method for python2 and ABAQUS.

• nastran-find - Nastranfind is a solution for browsing Nastran input deck
• FEconv - Program feconv converts finite element (FE) mesh files between several formats

Here you can find editors or plugins for editors.

• vim-lsdyna - vim-plugin for LS-DYNA input files.
• vim-lexer-lsdyna - LS-DYNA keyword input file lexer for vim.
• vim-abaqus - vim-plugin for ABAQUS input files.
• vim-radioss - vim-plugin for RADIOSS input files.
• language-abaqus package - ABAQUS language highlighting in the editor ATOM.
• language-nastran - Adds syntax highlighting to NASTRAN files in Atom.

Projects related to documentation

• LS-DYNA-Sublime - Sublime Text syntax highlighting for the LS-DYNA finite element software.
• Abaqus-Sublime - Sublime Text syntax highlighting for the Abaqus finite element software.
• Abaqus-Documentation-Scraper - Python script to extract keywords, parameters, and parameter values from the Abaqus HTML documentation.