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Question #658673 on Yade changed:
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Robert Caulk posted a new comment:
It is tough to estimate learning time, everyone has different learning
curves. Luckily you can get an idea for your own learning curve by
working through the tutorial [1]. If you find the tutorial too
challenging, you might want to lower your expectations for how quickly
you can pick it up. If you breeze through, then you can expect to be
fluent in the basics of Yade pretty quickly.

Comparison between PFC, Yade, and EDEM: The obvious advantage is the
cost. PFC and EDEM can cost upwards of $10,000 last time I checked (and
EDEM will try to upsell you individual cores on your own machine LOL).
Another huge advantage is the open-source community of Yade. It is
really just a bunch of academics who want to help the community and push
academia forward. Meanwhile, the commercial softwares have engineers
ready to support you, but they aren't doing it because they WANT to help
you. Big difference.

The obvious disadvantage is the ease of user interface (I've never used
EDEM), and phone support. But if you are doing a master's you are going
to benefit from being "in the weeds" and figuring things out yourself.
Another disadvantage might be Yade's lack of certain packages e.g. PFC
has a thermal engine and Yade does not (yet...).

[1] https://yade-dem.org/doc/tutorial.html

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