[Gmsh] Integrate GMSH with FreeCAD

[Joachim Zettler]

Thank you very much Christophe!

With best regards,
Joachim

On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Christophe Geuzaine<cgeuzaine at ulg.ac.be> wrote:
> Joachim Zettler wrote:
>>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I am one of the developers in the OpenSource Project FreeCAD (see
>>
>> https://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/free-cad/index.php?title=Main_Page).
>>
>> One of the workbenches I currently work on is the FE-Workbench. In
>> this workbench the user should be able to select CAD-Surfaces or Edges
>> to apply boundary conditions or Loads for further FE-Calculations with
>> Code-Aster or Calculix. Until now we miss a good meshing library which
>> covers the task of high quality surface or volume meshing. After the
>> meshing is done we apply our preset boundary conditions and loads and
>> generate an Input-Deck for the solvers of interest.
>>
>> Would it be possible to use GMSH for the whole meshing task? It would
>> also be very helpful if we can preserve TopoDS_Face or Edge
>> information during the meshing to map the loads and boundary
>> conditions to the right Triangles and Nodes afterwards.
>
> Hello Joachim - Yes, definitely. Compile Gmsh as a library and you can
> directly mesh the opencascade objects through the Gmsh API.
>
> A simple example on how to pass a TopoDS_Shape to Gmsh through the API is
> available in the contrib/api_demos directory.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Christophe
>
>
>>
>> Thank you in advance for your feedback.
>>
>> With best regards,
>>
>> Joachim
>>
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> Prof. Christophe Geuzaine
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