FEATool Multiphysics vs PyAutoLens
FEATool Multiphysics
featool.comPyAutoLens
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| Figure | FEATool Multiphysics | PyAutoLens |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | — | Free |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 3 | 1 |
| Spec score · Physics Simulation Software | 8.6 (#10) | 8.4 (#18) |
| Authoring tools | Yes | No |
| Data export | Yes | Yes |
| Delivery mode | desktop | desktop |
| Free plan | No | Yes |
| Integrations | The maker lists native MATLAB integration and connections to MATLAB add-ons including Simulink, Optimization, and Control Systems toolboxes. | PyAutoLens uses PyAutoFit for probabilistic lens modeling and documents search options including dynesty and emcee. |
| Intended users | The maker describes the product for engineers, researchers, teachers, and students in industry and academia. | The documentation recommends new users study its workspace examples and HowToLens Jupyter notebook lecture series on strong gravitational lensing. |
| Lesson library | Yes | No |
| Purpose | FEATool Multiphysics is an engineering simulation toolbox for modeling and solving physics problems. | PyAutoLens is software for analysing strong gravitational lenses and aims to enable fully automated strong lens analysis. |
| 3D visuals | Yes | No |
Plans
FEATool Multiphysics
- Default free trial licenseFree
- 1-Year licensePrice not published
- Perpetual licensePrice not published
In their own words
FEATool Multiphysics
FEATool Multiphysics is desktop software for engineering simulation, with tools to model and solve problems across heat transfer, mass transport, structural mechanics, fluid dynamics, and electromagnetics. Models can be built in 1D, 2D, or 3D, including axisymmetric configurations. Geometry tools support modeling and exchange in STEP, IGES, STL, and OBJ formats; meshes can be generated with built-in tools or Gmsh, Netgen, tetWild, and Triangle. FEATool connects its solvers with OpenFOAM, SU2, FEniCS, and redbKIT workflows. Interface actions map to MATLAB functions, and projects can be saved as MATLAB scripts or exported as Python scripts for FEniCS. Results can be exported to MATLAB, CSV, GMV, and VTK, or as interactive ParaView Glance and Plotly web models. It runs as a standalone app on Windows and Linux, or as a MATLAB toolbox on Windows, Linux, and Intel Mac; no standalone macOS app is available. A limited-functionality trial is offered, with full-feature trials requestable for 30 days.
PyAutoLens
PyAutoLens has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.