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SOFA, Simulation Open-Framework Architecture

(c) 2006-2009 MGH, INRIA, USTL, UJF, CNRS


License


The SOFA distribution is composed of three parts:
  • SOFA FRAMEWORK: this is essentially the core of SOFA
  • SOFA MODULES: represents the main functionalities available in SOFA
  • SOFA APPLICATIONS: GUI and example applications built using the SOFA framework and modules

SOFA is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the following licenses.

The SOFA FRAMEWORK can be redistributed and/or modified under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

The SOFA MODULES can be redistributed and/or modified under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

The SOFA APPLICATIONS can be redistributed and/or modified under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

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Latest Release: SOFA 1.0 beta 4

Source distribution packages, as well as required external dependencies, can be downloaded below. Two compression formats are provided: zip and 7z. Please use the 7z archives are they are much smaller (free decompressor available here).
SOFA::framework
[7z] [zip]
SOFA::modules
[7z] [zip]
SOFA::applications
[7z] [zip]
Dependencies for Windows, Visual Studio 2005
[7z] [zip]
Dependencies for Windows, Visual Studio 2008
[7z] [zip]
Dependencies for MacOS X
[zip]
(for Linux dependencies, see installation instructions)

For installation instructions, please refer to the Installing SOFA documentation page.


Binary distributions of SOFA are available for the following platforms:
SOFA precompiled for Windows
(with CUDA 2.1 support, for nVidia 8, 9 and GT2x0 series)

To download older releases, please see here.

Sofa external projects


Preview of the next release (SVN access, UNTESTED code)

The currently in development code for the next version of SOFA can be found on a public SVN server.
It can be checked out through anonymous access with the following command:

svn checkout svn://scm.gforge.inria.fr/svn/sofa/branches/Sofa-1.0
To compile it you will need same dependencies package as the current release.

ChangeLog

03/20/2009 :: SOFA version 1.0 beta 4

  • Lots of bug fixes
  • New introductory tutorials
  • A few new features (direct sparse solvers, improved topological mappings, shaders, trace/profiling GUI, etc.)
  • Updated dependencies package on Windows using Qt 4.5.0 with a patch to support spaces in qmake

08/13/2008 :: SOFA version 1.0 beta 3

  • Mac support
  • Qt3-Qt4 support on every platform
  • lots of new features

04/03/2007 :: SOFA version 1.0 beta 2

  • many bug fixes and small improvements
  • preliminary support for computations on GPU using CUDA
  • simple tutorials on how to create scenes procedurally
  • 2D types for simple test scenes
  • generateDoc tool to generate html pages documenting each registered classes ( see http://www.sofa-framework.org/classes )

02/09/2007 :: SOFA version 1.0 beta 1

  • First public release
Contact information: contact@sofa-framework.org