[Gmsh] SolidWork to OpenCascade conversion

Thu Feb 19 21:56:01 CET 2009

Hi Matthias,

It may be a little bit late, but I also found out on the same website a
converter from Solidwork to OpenCascade.
There is a 3 days free trial license.

http://www.datakit.com/cad-convertors/solidworks-to-opencascade/186-solidworks-3d-to-opencascade.html

If you try it out, would you mind to share your feeling concerning the
conversion quality?

Cheers,

Pierre

2009/1/28 Zenker, Dr. Matthias <Matthias.Zenker at erbe-med.de>

>  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.
> 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
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> 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>
>
>> 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>
>>
>>  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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