[Gmsh] Connecting faces.
Mark van Doesburg
mark.van.doesburg at technolution.nl
Thu Apr 16 16:24:15 CEST 2009
Hello Billy,
There is also the BRL-CAD engine. It is, however, a true solid modelling
engine and as such not suitable for direct integration with gmsh. They
are working on a BREP representation of their models however. I am not
sure what the status is.
Initially I planned on using the BRL raytracer in combination with CGAL to
generate a surface mesh. The CGAL people are also working on a volume
mesher which accepts piecewise smooth models with multiple regions,
which would have been a perfect match. But I don't have time to wait.
The OCC approach seemed much nicer once I found out about it. I have
learned something I guess ;-)
Don't hold your breath for commercial CAD engines to become free.
regards,
Mark van Doesburg
Billy Araujo <billyaraujo at gmail.com> wrote:
OpenCascade is the ONLY open source CAD kernel that I know of. Of
course it would be nice if Parasolid/Spatial were also open source.
At least some CAD companies could do like id software does in games
which is: exploit a technology commercially and then release old
versions as open source. Maybe a 6 year old parasolid version would be
better than what is available now.
Regards,
Billy.