[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
>
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> *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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> >> 1. New Gmsh release: 2.3.0 (Christophe Geuzaine)
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> >> Subject: [Gmsh-announce] New Gmsh release: 2.3.0
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> >> New in 2.3.0: major graphics and GUI code refactoring; new
> >> full-quad/hexa subdivision algorithm (removed
> >> Mesh.RecombineAlgo); improved automatic transfinite corner
> >> selection (now also for volumes); improved visibility
> >> browser; new automatic adaptive visualization for high-order
> >> simplices; modified arrow size, clipping planes and
> transform
> >> options; many improvements and bug fixes all over the place.
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> >> Downloads, mailing lists, etc.: http://geuz.org/gmsh/
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> >> ``C. Geuzaine and J.-F. Remacle. Gmsh: a three-dimensional
> >> finite element mesh generator with built-in pre- and
> >> post-processing facilities. International Journal for
> >> Numerical Methods in Engineering, Accepted for
> publication, 2009''
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