[Gmsh] gmsh-announce Digest, Vol 37, Issue 1

Christophe Geuzaine cgeuzaine at ulg.ac.be
Wed Jan 28 15:01:51 CET 2009


Zenker, Dr. Matthias wrote:
> Thank you Pierre,
>  
> I would not be interested in CATIA, but in SolidWorks native import.
>  
> If I understand correctly, there is a SolidWorks interface to gmsh which 
> can not be distributed just for license reasons.

That's correct: we have an interface prototype in-house, but we still 
need to carefully study how we can distribute it. We'll get back to you 
posted once we have an answer.


> Is there a legal way to get it? We have SolidWorks in our company, so if 
> the interface can be bought, we would at least consider it.
>  
> Best regards,
>  
> Matthias
> 
>     ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>     *From:* Pierre JUILLARD [mailto:pierre.juillard at gmail.com]
>     *Sent:* Monday, January 26, 2009 9:56 PM
>     *To:* Christophe Geuzaine
>     *Cc:* Zenker, Dr. Matthias; gmsh at geuz.org
>     *Subject:* Re: [Gmsh] gmsh-announce Digest, Vol 37, Issue 1
> 
>     By the way Mathias,
> 
>     If you are interested in Catia files in GMSH, you may be interested
>     in this conversion tool available on the open cascade website, which
>     allows converting CATIA files into BREP (open cascade) files that
>     can be opened in GMSH.
>     http://www.opencascade.org/support/products/dataex/catia/ (in english)
>     http://www.datakit.com/convertisseurs-cao/catia-v5-to-opencascade/93-catia-v5-3d-to-opencascade.html
>     (I hope you can read french...)
> 
>     Regards,
> 
>     Pierre
> 
> 
> 
> 
>     2009/1/26 Pierre JUILLARD <pierre.juillard at gmail.com
>     <mailto:pierre.juillard at gmail.com>>
> 
>         Hi Christophe,
> 
>         Does it mean that it could be possible to rent a library or
>         something that GMSH could directly use to read CATPart or
>         CATProduct (from Catia) files?
> 
>         Thancks in advance for your comments,
> 
>         Regards,
> 
>         Pierre
> 
> 
> 
>         2009/1/26 Christophe Geuzaine <cgeuzaine at ulg.ac.be
>         <mailto:cgeuzaine at ulg.ac.be>>
> 
>             Zenker, Dr. Matthias wrote:
>              > Hi,
>              >
>              > reading section 3 of the paper mentioned below, I have
>             the impression
>              > that gmsh can directly read CAD models (e.g from
>             SolidWorks or CATIA).
>              > Is this possible, or did I misunderstand?
> 
>             Hi Matthias - It is possible, but the only CAD kernel for
>             which we can
>             legally distribute the interface is OpenCascade. When you
>             link with
>             OpenCascade you can then load native OpenCascade files
>             (".brep").
> 
>             The license for e.g. SolidWorks prevents us from
>             distributing the
>             interface...
> 
> 
>              > The documentation speaks only about STEP, IGES and such.
>              >
>              > Matthias
>              >
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