Documentation
A quick look at how WebCAE is built, without the technical weeds. It's a full pipeline — a preprocessor for geometry and boundary conditions, a mesher, a solver and a postprocessor for results — all running right in the browser, on your own device. There's model import and a scripting language of its own, so a run can be set up with commands, not just a mouse. The browser build has a limit on degrees of freedom; a separate build with the same interface, but without that limit, is coming for heavier models.
By version
v0.1Mid-July 2026Core solverIn progress
- Linear static structural analysis
- Buckling / stability analysis
- Steady-state thermal conduction
- Thermo-elastic coupling
- Linear contacts
- Adaptive finite-element mesh with automatic local refinement
- Solves right in the browser, on your own device, up to ~100k degrees of freedom
- STEP, IGES and Parasolid import
- Scripting language — geometry, boundary conditions and solver settings via commands
v0.2End of July 2026Desktop
- Same solver core as a desktop app
- No ceiling on degrees of freedom
- Native performance, no browser sandbox limits
v0.3August 2026Scale validation
- Testing against large real-world assemblies
- Convergence and performance checks on industrial-size models
v0.4August 2026Plasticity
- Nonlinear material behavior
- Analysis beyond the elastic limit
v0.5September 2026Nonlinear contacts
- Contact problems with nonlinear behavior
- Friction and surface separation
How we check accuracy
Every solver capability is checked against independent references — from classical analytical solutions to the industry-standard NAFEMS suite. We publish the comparison openly.
See verificationDSL scripting reference
Every command available in the scripting language — geometry, boundary conditions, mesh, solve, postprocessing — with syntax, arguments and known limitations, sourced directly from the current code.
Read the DSL reference