FET FET is a free timetabling program for schools, high-schools and some universities.
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FET is a free timetabling program for schools, high-schools and some universities. FET is an open source timetabling application for schools, high-schools and some universities. Here are some key features of "FET": · FET is free software (open source). You can freely use, copy, modify and re-distribute it, as GNU/GPL permits (but please consider a donation) · Localized to English, French, Catalan, Romanian, Malay, Polish, Turkish, Dutch, German, Hungarian and Macedonian (maybe incompletely) · Fully automatic generation algorithm, allowing also semi-automatic or manual allocation · Platform independent implementation, allowing running on GNU/Linux, Windows and any system that Qt supports · Powerful flexible modular xml format for the input file, allowing editing with an xml editor or by hand (besides FET) · Possibility to view the currently generated timetable without stopping the ongoing simulation · The resulted timetables are exported into xml and html formats · Very flexible students (pupils) structure, in years, groups and subgroups. FET allows overlapping years and groups and non-overlapping subgroups · Possibility to consider a weight (percentage) for each constraint · Maximum total number of hours (periods) per day: 30 · Maximum number of working days per week: 14 · Maximum total number of teachers: 700 · Maximum total number of subgroups (sets) of students: 5000 · Maximum total number of subjects: 1000 · Virtually unlimited number of subject tags · Maximum number of activities: 2000 (you can compile or ask the author a version with more activities allowed) · Maximum number of rooms: 300 · Maximum number of buildings: 100 · Maximum number of equipments: 300 · Adjustable duration for each activity (each activity can have duration of 1 hour, 2 hours, 3 hours or more) · Possibility of adding multiple teachers and students sets for each activity. That is, each activity can have specified at most 400 students subgroups (sets) and 100 teachers · Maximum number of time constraints: 3000 · Maximum number of space constraints: 3000 A large and flexible palette of time constraints: · Constraint activities preferred times (you can specify a set of activities by teacher, subject, subject tag or students and a set of preferred or allowed periods). · Constraint activities same starting hour · Constraint activities same starting time · Constraint activities not overlapping · Constraint activity preferred time (to specify for an activity a preferred day, hour or both) · Constraint activity preferred times · Constraint basic compulsory time · Constraint break · Constraint min n days between activities (to allow balancing the activities in a week) · Constraint students early (to make the students begin as early as possible the activities) · Constraint students set early (to make the students set begin as early as possible the activities) · Constraint students no gaps · Constraint students set no gaps · Constraint students (set) max hours daily · Constraint teacher(s) max hours daily · Constraint students set not available · Constraint teacher max days per week · Constraint teacher not available · Constraint teachers max gaps per week A large and flexible palette of space constraints: · Constraint activity preferred room · Constraint activity preferred rooms · Constraint basic compulsory space · Constraint room not available · Constraint subject preferred room · Constraint subject preferred rooms Requirements: · Qt What's New in This Release: · Added shortcut buttons on the main form (suggested by more users, especially: daviodan, Massimo Mancini, Paolo Cataldi). They can be deactivated from Settings Interface menu. · Increased max activities to 15,000, max days per 'week' to 35, and other limits, and improved memory management. Now you don't need to have much virtual memory and memory usage is lower. This better memory management may bring a small slowdown of the generation, although in rare cases the new version may be faster. Speed variation depends also on the platform. More details about the possible slowdown: I compared times by starting parallel generations with the same random seed, which produces the same timetables in identical steps. I noticed usually less than 10% increased generating time, but in rare cases for some unusual files a bit more, maximum 17%. From the official examples, the worst situation is for the file Hungary/Bethlen/2007-2008-difficult/Bethlen_2007_2008.fet, with about 17% slowdown from FET version 5.11.0 to FET 5.12.0. I apologise for this "downgrade" of speed, but it is necessary. · Updated to Qt 4.6.0 · Improved add activity dialog, by Volker Dirr: if in activities dialog, you select a filter and then try to add an activity, the values in this filter will be selected in the add activity dialog (this was also suggested by daviodan). · Minor interface improvements. · Changed help management (added links to online help). · Corrected/updated translations. · Code cleanup.

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