Has anyone here used this - Vituix software?

[ajawamnet]

I searched the forum... didn't find anything.

https://kimmosaunisto.net/Software/Software.html

I noticed he links to other forums....

Like wow - check out the vids

• VituixCAD Merger
• Adding off-axis responses with VituixCAD Diffraction and Calculator tools
• VituixCAD SPL Trace (1.1.18.1 or later)
• Creating off-axis responses with VituixCAD Diffraction tool
• VituixCAD 2 free form network (2.0.3.7 or later)

All for free? This is nutz...

 

[BDWoody]

At first glance, that's looks pretty impressive... Free? Wow...

 

[Krunok]

That looks like a speaker/crossover designer tool, not a measurement tool like REW.

 

[ajawamnet]

That looks like a speaker/crossover designer tool, not a measurement too like REW.

Yea - it works with ARTA: http://www.artalabs.hr/
"Read VituixCAD Measurement Preparations.pdf. This is mandatory document to read and follow to enable fast and controlled speaker simulation producing accurate off-axis simulation and reliable power and DI responses. Please do not challenge recommendations by using some other measurement program or single channel measurement gear such as USB microphones or single channel mode for far field measurements. Also techical support for not recommended measurement softwares is not available. "

 

[Biblob]

I have not used it extensively. But I know many praise it. It has a lot of functionalities that are usefull when designing a speaker.
Maybe @Juhazi can join in.

 

[Juhazi]

Well, the author does VituixCAD as a hobby, but has university education in engineering and long history of several types of speakers well documented on his pages. He is very helpful and has many VCAD users around the world, like those found at this forum https://www.diyaudio.com/forums/software-tools/307910-vituixcad.html VCAD has several "tools" that are quite easy to use for preliminary ideas of construction, like diffraction simulation per intended baffle and driver sizes and published data. The program gets updates almost weekly!

Personally I am not qualified or even interested in learning to design passive crossovers. My lack of the talent of understanding mathematics is deep... So I must just believe others, that this program is state of the art!

 

[Julf]

Well, the author does VituixCAD as a hobby, but has university education in engineering

Tampere, Helsinki or Oulu?

 

[Juhazi]

Don't know, my guess is Lappeenranta. He doesn't like to tell about himself. We have never met.
https://patents.justia.com/inventor/kimmo-saunisto

 

[Julf]

Don't know, my guess is Lappeenranta. He doesn't like to tell about himself. We have never met.
https://patents.justia.com/inventor/kimmo-saunisto

I know the EE/acoustics departments of Tampere and Helsinki reasonably well, and they are pretty good. No idea about Lappeenranta.

 

[ajawamnet]

Well, the author does VituixCAD as a hobby, but has university education in engineering and long history of several types of speakers well documented on his pages. He is very helpful and has many VCAD users around the world, like those found at this forum https://www.diyaudio.com/forums/software-tools/307910-vituixcad.html VCAD has several "tools" that are quite easy to use for preliminary ideas of construction, like diffraction simulation per intended baffle and driver sizes and published data. The program gets updates almost weekly!

Personally I am not qualified or even interested in learning to design passive crossovers. My lack of the talent of understanding mathematics is deep... So I must just believe others, that this program is state of the art!

Thanks - that's exactly what I need it for (crossover design and simulation).

 

[Hypnotoad]

I like the SPL trace function it has, since I was using Jeff Bagby's crossover designer that's all I use from VituixCad but I might take a closer look.