Brenda Ellen Make wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to output an IGES enclosed surface model and input it into > GMSH for meshing with 3D tetrahedrons, and also a triangle surfaces. > When I tried to import a IGES, even the same IGES which can imports > successfully into Netgen(1), all I see are splines, and perhaps what > looks like a small crumpled surface.
Can you send your iges file? > > Does GMSH require one specific IGES format for input? > > ~ > > Also, having a student version of Rhino3D, I asked them to develop a > ..msh file format : ) > > Thank You for Reading, > BrendaEM > > Notes: > > I'm trying to learn FEA on Impact and perhaps Calculix, but perhaps do > some experiments with Dophyn CFD, and it's hard to get the programs > talking to one another. > I believe that Gmsh is a very important program for students because so > many programs can read its file format. > > Netgen: > (1) I can load iges surfaces into Netgen > I can't seem to mesh what I want Netgen because, at the overridden > coarsest settings the mesh is much to fine for my files. > > Impact: > Impact can load Gmsh .msh files, but not ones from Netgen. The files > can be saved in Gmsh's .msh format, can loaded. > Have successfully FEA on surfaces. > As seen on the Impact list, changing these values in the script, or > modifying a material eliminated tearing: FAILURE_STRESS = 4481367 > YIELD_STRESS = 3309316 > You can select multiple nodes by lassoing them, as not seen in the > tutorials. > > OpenCAE: > Salome doesn't care for my hardware, and I have no 3D acceleration. > Would rather they provided a apt-get repository, than to recreate > the wheel. > One person got Salome working for Ubuntu. (Haven't tried it yet.) > > http://www.salome-platform.org/forum/?groupid=10&forumid=9&thread=1990 > Don't hold your breath for the Windows version of Solome. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > gmsh mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.geuz.org/mailman/listinfo/gmsh > > -- Prof. Christophe Geuzaine University of Liege, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science http://www.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~geuzaine _______________________________________________ gmsh mailing list [email protected] http://www.geuz.org/mailman/listinfo/gmsh
