Tools of FLUKA (software related)
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UPDATED===01.03.2008
TITLE===FLUKA software overview
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	<p>Here is a collection of tools in context of FLUKA input and output. This space is open for similar software tools - please feel free to contact the FLUKA team to suggest and/or participate in additional projects to develop tools. <b>User input/feedback is very much encouraged.</b></p><br />

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	<p class="db_year">FLAIR</p>

	<p class="no" style="text-align:center;"><b>flair</b>: /fle&#600;e(r)/ - natural or instinctive ability to do something well,<br />to select or recognize what is best, more useful, etc.</p>

	<p style="text-align: center;"><a class="exind" onclick="window.open(this.href); return false;" href="[[FLAIR_HREF]]" title="Flair">FLAIR page</a></p>

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		<p>An advanced user interface for FLUKA to facilitate the editing of input files, building the executable, execution of the code, visualization of the output files, merging of the data files and generation of high quality graphs using <a class="exind" href="http://www.gnuplot.info" onclick="window.open(this.href); return false;" title="GNU Plot">gnuplot</a> as well as photorealistic 3D plots of the geometry with data superimposed with <a class="exind" href="http://www.povray.org" onclick="window.open(this.href); return false;" title="PovRay">PovRay</a>. A cross platform application based entirely on <a class="exind" href="http://www.python.org" onclick="window.open(this.href); return false;" title="Python">python</a> and Tkinter.</p>
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	<p class="db_year">FluGG</p>

	<p style="text-align: center;"><b>Flu</b>ka <b>G</b>eant4 <b>G</b>eometry interface</p>

	<p style="text-align: center;"><a class="exind" onclick="window.open(this.href); return false;" href="tools/flugg/index.html">FluGG website</a></p>

	<p>Development of a FLUKA interface to the GEANT4 geometry format. A subset of GEANT4 volume definitions has been implemented. In this mode, FLUKA utilizes the GEANT4 geometry package internally in order to determine where a particle is in space, ie. in which volume.</p>

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	<p class="db_year">SimpleGeo</p>

	<p style="text-align: center;"><b>Simple Geo</b>metry</p>

	<p style="text-align: center;"><a class="exind" href="http://www.cern.ch/theis/simplegeo" onclick="window.open(this.href); return false;" title="SimpleGeo">SimpleGeo website</a></p>

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		<p>SimpleGeo is a new project to provide a graphical tool in order to compose/manipulate FLUKA geometry input (including the material aspect) and perform 3D visualization.</p>
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	<p class="db_year">TVF NMCRC</p>

	<p style="text-align: center;"><b>T</b>esting &#038; <b>v</b>eri<b>f</b>ication - <b>N</b>u<b>m</b>erical <b>C</b>yclic <b>R</b>edundancy <b>C</b>heck</p>

	<p style="text-align: center;"><a class="exind" onclick="window.open(this.href); return false;" href="tools/TVF.html" title="flukatools">TVF NMCRC</a></p> 

	<p>TVF NMCRC is user interface for writing and executing FLUKA input files under development. TVF (Testing &#038; verification for FLUKA) - features a graphical interface for easy working in the FLUKA environment. It can be of help especially for new users in order to build the FLUKA input fies. By using it, you do not need to check how to write, how many "WHAT" you have to use, how many spaces you keep, what are the physical constants and other related questions.  Authors: Sergei Homchenko, Maxim Shifrin and Dr. Shlomo Mark from <a class="exind" href="http://nmcrc.sce.ac.il" onclick="window.open(this.href); return false;" title="Negev Monte Carlo Research Center, Israel">NMCRC</a> (Negev Monte Carlo Research Center, Israel).</p>

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	<p class="db_year">FLUKACAD/PIPSICAD</p>

	<p style="text-align: center;"><a class="exind" href="http://vincke.home.cern.ch/vincke" onclick="window.open(this.href); return false;" title="FLUKACAD/PIPSICAD">Vincke website</a></p>

	<p>These programs provide an interface between FLUKA and AutoCAD, permitting to visualize  FLUKA geometries (FLUKACAD) and simulated particle tracks (PIPSICAD) in three dimensions in AutoCAD.</p>


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	<h1>Obsolete software. No longer supported.</h1>

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	<p class="db_year">flukaGUI</p>

	<p style="text-align: center;"><a class="exind" onclick="window.open(this.href); return false;" href="tools/FlukaGUI.html" title="flukaGUI">FlukaGUI</a></p> 

	<p>FLUKA backend Graphical User Interface to inspect/manipulate standard FLUKA output files. The project is developed within the <b>root</b> framework. Currently only USRBIN output is supported. In addition the implemented geometry can be visualized in a user friendly way following the traditional FLUKA concept of 2D cut planes.</p>

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	<p class="db_year">flukatools</p>

	<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="tools/flukatools-1.0c.tar.gz" title="flukatools">flukatools (tared, gzipped)</a></p> 

	<p>A collection of <a class="exind" href="http://home.cern.ch/bnv/software/BRexx" onclick="window.open(this.href); return false;" title="BRexx">BRexx</a> scripts to facilitate editing of fluka input files as plotting the geometry and USRBIN results. The scripts are able to convert the fluka files to various formats like: MCNP(X), Povray, DXF, and between all possible formats that fluka acceptsfixed, double precision, free format, with names or numbers.<br />
	<b style="color: #aa1b1d">Note: These utilities are substituted by the <a class="exind" onclick="window.open(this.href); return false;" href="flair/index.html">Flair</a> project.</b></p>