A big Thank You!

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Happy holidays to all !

As 2025 closes it’s curtains, I just want to say that I am not surprised that PrePoMax keeps growing in user freindliness and popularity. With all the work that goes into developing and tweaking it, it was expected.

Thank you Prof. @Matej for the time and efffort you selflessly dedicate to the worldwide opensource FEA community. I dont think that we say it enough. We probably don’t have an idea of how much capital you save SME (small to medium enterprises) by not having to purchase expensive and bloated commercial software, but I think it may be hundreds of millions $ worldwide.

Also, a big thank you to @FEAnalyst for his generosity in sharing his extensive FEA knowledge and addressing 95% (if not more) of the PrePoMax & Calculix questions raised on this forum. I dont know how you are always a few minutes from anwering and why you are passionate about helping, but we are immensely gratefull for that too.

I am looking forward to what new features 2026 brings !

PS. If contributions are needed for whatever resources you need, I am sure that there will be a few hundred (in not thousands) of us that would gladly contribute.

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Thank you, @arnie, for your very kind words.

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Happy New Year to all PPM users!

I’d like to undersign all of @arnie’s comments including the last offer to support the project.

In fact, I may possibly go one step further and say that PPM is so good now that future improvements, for sure welcome, are now on the scale of add-ons to a well-built foundation and that the core usability is already excellent.

In my opinion, ccx, although great, is the weak link in the system now, for it needs some crucial developments that are so slow to materialise. Indeed, new versions are so often minor variations from the original line that add little details that may interest only a few (or so it seems to me). In contrast, major functionalities are still lacking. If ccx may progress with half the speed of PPM it would be a major improvement. I’m not clear how this may be, given that PPM is much more recent and likely an effort of a one/two men team. CCX is ten years old now, in fact turning 11 shortly !

So well done to the PPM team !

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