There are two Rust projects working on parametric kernels I'm aware of. The first one, Truck[1] seems to have a company behind it, Ricos Ltd, that look like they to know what they're doing[2]. The tweet shows their product using functionality from Truck (the frontend is not OSS AFAIK). Fornjot is an ambitious project IMHO. Their kernel is in a separate crate[3]. As for OSS code that could be a good base to either... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

> NURBS usually requires relatively specialized libraries[0], which don't exist (at high enough quality) in the open source community. There is fully opensource cross-platform NURBS modeler — Ayam.[0] But Ayam looks not NOT user friendly. Also there are FreeShip Plus[2] and gCAD3D[3]. [0] http://ayam.sourceforge.net/ [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lOSrxl6qyA [2]... - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago

For what it's worth I did find an online structural analysis tool that seems simple enough to use and affordable called SkyCiv that I might try, but from your suggestions and the small amount of research I did since, I think I might feel more comfortable doing the calculations by hand and maybe compare my results to the software simulation as confirmation. Source: about 2 years ago

Https://skyciv.com Skyciv is a beautiful tool really worth it for students and I believe it is reasonably within your budget. Source: about 2 years ago

I've found SkyCiv which looks like it has the right level of functionality. However it's all online and if the company ever went under we'd lose the ability to access and run the models. Source: about 2 years ago

You should checkout skyciv its 14$ a month no contract for students I checked it out for a month and it was pretty cool has alot of the stuff you mentioned too. Source: almost 3 years ago