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<div class="">Gmsh is the mesher and a possible interface to other FEA software.</div>
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<div class="">It is fully interfaced with the Fe solftware Getdp in Onelab</div>
<div class="">Maybe you should start having a look at the models in: </div>
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Dept. Electrical Engineering ESAT/Electa, EnergyVille<br class="">
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Free software: <a href="http://gmsh.info" class="">http://gmsh.info</a> | <a href="http://getdp.info" class="">http://getdp.info</a> | <a href="http://onelab.info" class="">http://onelab.info</a><br class="">
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<div class="">On 26 May 2016, at 02:12, Karen Pease <<a href="mailto:meme@eaku.net" class="">meme@eaku.net</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div class="">Hi all. I've spent all evening trying out different meshing and FEA<br class="">
software and gotten precisely nowhere... so I decided it's time to<br class="">
ask. Where is a good place to start? All I'm wanting to do is:<br class="">
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1) Take an existing model (say, exported as STL)<br class="">
2) Import it<br class="">
3) Assign material properties, anchor points, and assign forces<br class="">
4) Run a FEA simulation<br class="">
5) See the stresses and deflections<br class="">
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Seems like a pretty basic workflow, but I can hardly get past the<br class="">
first step. GMSH got me the furthest - at least I could actually see<br class="">
it. But it's just a wireframe, I can't do anything more with it than<br class="">
pan around it, there's no interactive points. The model is just<br class="">
window decor as far as I can tell. I see nothing in the visibility<br class="">
options that makes it any more interactive.<br class="">
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(At least this is further than I got with other tools... netgen might<br class="">
as well have had the interface in Swahili).<br class="">
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I've tried reading the documentation, but what's called a "tutorial"<br class="">
(<a href="http://gmsh.info/doc/texinfo/gmsh.html#Tutorial" class="">http://gmsh.info/doc/texinfo/gmsh.html#Tutorial</a>) is practically an<br class="">
API manual. I've tried watching videos on Youtube, but one, not only<br class="">
do they rarely deal with importing geometry like STLs, but for most<br class="">
programs the interface in the videos looks different from what I see<br class="">
because I use Linux and they use Windows. And the Windows versions<br class="">
usually seem to have more user friendly versions (at least gmsh is<br class="">
better than calculix in this regard, with calculix it's like half the<br class="">
interface is missing....)<br class="">
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What do I do? How can I get my bearings here?<br class="">
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Any feedback at all would be greatly appreciated... thanks, all.<br class="">
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- kv, Karen<br class="">
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