[Gmsh] Blender & Gmsh

[Pierre JUILLARD]

I Dima!

Let me offer you 2 solutions. I don't think they are as good as you wish it
to be, but it should offer you nonetheless a way to link Blender to GMSH.
I have not tried myself, but see no reason why it wouldn't work.


- 1st solution
Instead of using Blender, you may wish to use FreeCAD to draw CADs. FreeCAD
is still under heavy developments, but the team is progressing at huge
strides.
They are currently integrating a constraint solver to allow CATIA or
Solidwork user having an relevant open source solution to drw CAD.
However, it is not suited for organic drawings such as Blender can be.
You will find the website here:
http://apps.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/free-cad/index.php?title=Main_Page
Do not hesitate to post in the forum if you have questions: the team is very
welcoming and answer quickly:
http://apps.sourceforge.net/phpbb/free-cad/index.php

FreeCAD is most notably based on OCC, and allow you to write CAD in brep
formats, which GMSH can read.


- 2nd solution
Yorik, one memeber of the development team of FreeCAD has written a blender
2 freecad converter.
I'm not sure if you can then write the file in brep geometry from Freecad
but you can have a look at this solution. It may help you.
http://yorik.orgfree.com/guestblog.php?2009=105


Good luck Dima!
Cheers,


Pierre




2009/6/9 Dmitrijs Ledkovs <dmitrij.ledkov at gmail.com>

> Hello!
>
> I'm still learning how to use Gmsh. I'm still at creating models /
> meshes stage. Haven't done any simulations / computations yet.
>
> Although Gmsh GUI is good enough to create complex models I was
> wondering if I can create models in Blender and then import them into
> Gmsh.
>
> Both Gmsh and Blender support a few import / export formats but i
> failed to find a common denominator. Do you have any suggestions onto
> which format should i use?
>
> Cause I really don't like the idea of creating export filter from
> blender to geo.
>
> --
> With best regards
>
>
> Dmitrijs Ledkovs (for short Dima),
> Ледков Дмитрий Юрьевич
>
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