export mesh salome

[DomD]

good morning colleagues designers,

I am an instrumental civil engineer and I have the need to model mesh with elements 2d and 1d. from some time I am evaluating salome, which seems very powerful to generate mesh (although I have not yet understood if I can interface well elements 1d with elements 2d - think about a table with the four lines of the legs and the upper meshato plan -).

Now I have a big problem, which could lead me to discard saloons. my idea, in fact, was to use salome to generate mesh well calculated to export and calculate structurally with other fem programs. For example, today I have the need to do this by exporting and importing into autodesk robots. Strangely robot does not read the .stl file generated by robots (and even inventors). How could I solve this? is it not possible to export mesh in dxf or dwg?

Please help. and an opinion about the functionality of applying my idea, ie generating geometries and mesh in robots and importing them into other fem programs more oriented to civil engineering.

Thank you.

Daniele

 

[cacciatorino]

good morning colleagues designers,

I am an instrumental civil engineer and I have the need to model mesh with elements 2d and 1d. from some time I am evaluating salome, which seems very powerful to generate mesh (although I have not yet understood if I can interface well elements 1d with elements 2d - think about a table with the four lines of the legs and the upper meshato plan -).

Now I have a big problem, which could lead me to discard saloons. my idea, in fact, was to use salome to generate mesh well calculated to export and calculate structurally with other fem programs. For example, today I have the need to do this by exporting and importing into autodesk robots. Strangely robot does not read the .stl file generated by robots (and even inventors). How could I solve this? is it not possible to export mesh in dxf or dwg?

Please help. and an opinion about the functionality of applying my idea, ie generating geometries and mesh in robots and importing them into other fem programs more oriented to civil engineering.

Thank you.

Daniele

time ago the only format exportable from salome was the unv, maybe in the meantime something improved. otherwise try to go through gmsh, which maybe allows something extra.

 

[DomD]

Thank you.
peg gmsh does not have a graphical interface that allows a quick visual modeling of geometries, correct? or are you suggesting to model geometry with salome and generate mesh with gmsh? or simply convert salome output files by gmsh?

 

[cacciatorino]

Thank you.
peg gmsh does not have a graphical interface that allows a quick visual modeling of geometries, correct? or are you suggesting to model geometry with salome and generate mesh with gmsh? or simply convert salome output files by gmsh?

I never used gmsh, but I know someone uses it to make mesh. Anyway, I was actually trying to make mesh with salome and then load them in gmsh in med format, which seems to me supported, and then from there exporting as gmsh can do it.

However if you go well with English the best thing to do is ask on code-aster forums (www.code-aster.org) e salome (www.salome-platform.org).