Allow user and external companies to load their plug-in into FEM-Design

We need this because: User/companies creates internal script which require FEM-Design. They are currently sending .exe to the co-workers. Giving the option to distribute/sell plug-in would open new scenario.

Why is this feature important:

Users can create an ecosystem around FEM-Design
Increase API use cases

What the feature should do:

allow user to create plug-in to be run from FEM-Design

Who wants this feature:

API users

Others thought

Tool as Grasshopper, Blender has became so powerful thanks to the surrounding eco system. People have started building tools to solve all kind of problems. few examples:

Karamba3d for FEA Weavebird for mesh manipulation Kuka for robotic arm

Giving access to the user to build tool, would help people in being interested in FEM-Design and therefore growing the pool of users.

Future work

Great idea would be to open a MarketPlace where people can share their tool and decide if they want it to release it for free or not. Example: https://portal.synera.io/marketplace

References

strusoft / femdesign-api

Allow user and external companies to load their plug-in into FEM-Design #914

Future work