[Gmsh] linking OCC and GMSH?
Christophe Geuzaine
cgeuzaine at ulg.ac.be
Sun Feb 15 16:17:04 CET 2009
Pierre JUILLARD wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I recently wanted to open a stp file in GMSH, so I began to look for
> emails with some information about the best way to do it.
> I found some that were speaking about linking and compiling GMSH and
> OCC, and was a little bit afraid.
>
> I first decided to download and install the OCC package, then start GMSH
> and see what would happen.
> Maybe GMSH would recognize OCC environment variables or something, and
> that would be done.
>
> And actually, it worked...
>
> That is really nice!
> I would like however to know what happens when I started GMSH. Why were
> previous e-mails speaking about linking and compiling?
>
> - is GMSH 2.3.0 now shipped with a built-in stp file reader?
Yes, the binaries on the web site are linked with OpenCascade.
> - or does it automatcially recognize OCC environment variables?
>
> In such a case, as the OCC package is quite huge (I installed
> everything), could you advice me about the necessary OCC packages to
> install in order to read IGS/SETP/BREP files in GMSH, such that I can
> drop the others? (here is enclosed the screen displayed during the OCC
> installation allowing some choices)
>
> I thank you in advance!
> Regards,
>
>
> Pierre
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