[Gmsh] mesh

Christophe Geuzaine geuzaine at acm.caltech.edu
Fri Nov 14 21:14:09 CET 2003


Cristian Vimer wrote:

> 
> Hi
>  
> My name is Cristian Vimer and I am a Doctoral Candidate in Civil
> Engineering at Polytechnic University in Brooklyn, NY. I am trying to
> model and analyze body parts and I have stl and igs files from scanning.
> The challenge now is to create a mesh with 3d elements that I can import
> to ADINA or other software to analyze it. I talked to the people from
> ADINA and they told me that using their software it is impossible to
> automatically generate a mesh based on the points or lines from my igs
> files. I was looking online and I read about your expertise in mesh
> generation and I hope you can help me with some advice. I saw also that
> you have developed a software that seem suitable for my application. is
> it possible to be used for something like this?

Unfortunately, not yet. At the moment, Gmsh can only use the geometrical
information provided by its own CAD engine to generate 3D meshes.

Christophe

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