[Gmsh] gmsh2 and opencascade

[billy at dem.uminho.pt]

You mean gmsh2 will be able to import IGES and STEP files?

That would be nice!

Billy.

Quoting Christophe Geuzaine <cag32 at case.edu>:

> Jose M. Sancho wrote:
> > Hi Cristophe:
> > 
> > 	
> > 	Are you going to give up FLTK in Gmsh2 to use OpenCascade ?
> 
> No: We are just going to use the OpenCascade kernel to access CAD 
> representations--nothing will change in our GUI, graphics, etc. And 
> OpenCascade will be optional: just like Gmsh supports optional external 
> mesh generators (Triangle, Netgen, Tetgen), it will support an optional 
> external CAD engine.
> 
> > 	In the nightly release there is no trace of OpenCascade yet, right?
> 
> Not yet, but most of the architecture work is done.
> 
> 
> > 	
> > 	Regards.
> > 
> > José M. Sancho
> > 	
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> Christophe Geuzaine
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