The Facsimile project is a, 3D, physics-enabled

Mechanics

Mechanics is the branch of physics concerned with the behavior of physical bodies when subjected to forces or displacements, and the subsequent effects of the bodies on their environment....

, discrete-event

Discrete Event Simulation

In discrete-event simulation, the operation of a system is represented as a chronological sequence of events. Each event occurs at an instant in time and marks a change of state in the system...

 simulation

Computer simulation

A computer simulation, a computer model, or a computational model is a computer program, or network of computers, that attempts to simulate an abstract model of a particular system...

/emulation

Emulation for Logic Validation

Emulation for Logic Validation also referred to as virtual commissioning. This process involves replicating the behavior of one or more pieces of hardware with a software environment . The goal of the emulation engineer is to create an environment that mimics the real automation hardware...

 library that can be used for industrial simulation and emulation projects in an engineering and/or manufacturing environment.

Facsimile simulations run on Linux, Mac OSX, BSD, Unix and Microsoft's Windows.

Facsimile is open-source

Open source

The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology...

/free software

Free software

Free software, software libre or libre software is software that can be used, studied, and modified without restriction, and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified form either without restriction, or with restrictions that only ensure that further recipients can also do...

 and is distributed under version 3 of the GNU Lesser General Public License

GNU Lesser General Public License

The GNU Lesser General Public License or LGPL is a free software license published by the Free Software Foundation . It was designed as a compromise between the strong-copyleft GNU General Public License or GPL and permissive licenses such as the BSD licenses and the MIT License...

 (LGPLv3).

External links

• The Facsimile project home page
• The project page for Facsimile on Launchpad
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