> I've had success using FreeCAD or BRL-CAD with Gmsh, though there are > other packages out there that I haven't tried that might be as good or > better. As D. C. said, anything you can export STEP from is good, but > even anything that can only export STL is usable: just export one STL > file per Physical Surface and define the contained volume in Gmsh.
I wasn't aware of FreeCAD/the fact that I could import those files into Gmsh. Thanks for the hint! Cheers, Nico On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Geordie McBain <[email protected]> wrote: > 2012/9/6 Nico Schlömer <[email protected]>: >> Maybe this didn't come through quite right: I'm not interested in the >> intersection surface at all; all I want to do is carve cavities out of an >> existing block of "material". Suppose I have a cube with edge length 10 >> centered around the origin, and I want to carve out two ball cavities with >> each radius 1.5 centered at (1,0,0) and (-1,0,0), respectively, then gmsh >> would already bail out. > > No, I'm afraid the previous comments still apply. > >> And by the way, what would you say is a good "solid modeler"? > > I've had success using FreeCAD or BRL-CAD with Gmsh, though there are > other packages out there that I haven't tried that might be as good or > better. As D. C. said, anything you can export STEP from is good, but > even anything that can only export STL is usable: just export one STL > file per Physical Surface and define the contained volume in Gmsh. _______________________________________________ gmsh mailing list [email protected] http://www.geuz.org/mailman/listinfo/gmsh
