Welcome to operato!

September 2022 is a month to remember (well at least if you get excited about advanced numerical simulation). The reason is that Altair announced the immediate availability in the opensource domain of their explicit finite element code Radioss (re-branded to OpenRadioss). Now it is up to the community to start adding useful new features and hopefully operato is one of them.

So what is operato?

operato is a set of tools and utilities that support the use of OpenRadioss. I currently have two tools in mind:

• A Python package to facilitate the programmatic generation of starter and engine files.
• A conversion tool for the conversion of OpenRadioss .h3d files to any of the VTK file formats.