Lecturer.  Dr. Hugo TALBOT, PhD Abstract. As in many engineering sectors, numerical simulation has become invaluable, namely for medical education, therapy planning, and implant design. However, simulation softwares remain expensive and require a high level of expertise to be used correctly and effectively. SOFA (Software Open Framework Architecture) is an open-source framework primarily targeted at real-time simulation, with an emphasis on medical simulation. This innovative and collaborative tool is developed by a worldwide community of experts in physics simulations and gathers…