The Facsimile project is a 3D, discrete-event

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library that can be used for industrial simulation projects in an engineering and/or manufacturing environment. Facsimile simulations run on the

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under

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and Microsoft's Windows. Facsimile is

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and is distributed under version 3 of the

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(LGPLv3). After a fairly lengthy hiatus, commencing around 2008, Facsimile development is once more active, as of November 2012.

External links

* {{official website, http://facsim.org/
Facsimile development
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