Icetools in its current version depends on Matlab(R) and the Getfem++ finite element model package with its Matlab(R) interface. Therefore it is assumed in this user manual that Matlab(R) as well as the Getfem++ library is installed and working on the system.

Please refer to the documentation of the Getfem++ software package on how to install it. The current version of Icetools depends on Getfem++ version 3.0.4, which can directly be downloaded here.

To create computational meshes for the finite element code, Icetools depends on Gmsh. Gmsh is an automatic 3D finite element grid generator perfectly suitable to create all kinds of geometries and an interface to Getfem++ exists. At the moment version 2.2.0 of Gmsh is recommended to use and can be downloaded here.

A function version of Python is also needed to run several data conversion tools coming with Icetools.