Hi Burr, you might look at some of these:

Kubrix: http://www.siw.com/index.html

Moldex: http://www.moldex3d.com/

CADRE looks like it may be able to do some analysis work on surface meshes like MoI creates, rather than only volumetric ones: http://www.cadreanalytic.com/

Strand7: http://strand7.com


Some of these have plug-ins that run inside of Rhino:
http://www.rhino3d.com/resources/default.asp?category=5&language=


Since geometry can be moved very well from MoI into Rhino, a combination of Rhino + one of these plugins from a company that specializes in this kind of stuff could be a good way to go.


I think that there are a variety of other analysis programs out there as well, so you might keep looking for other ones as well.

- Michael

Thanks Michael,
Was trying to create FEA for MoI! :o

does exist a free prog with the "Zebra function" ?
just for speedy tool visualisation

Hey Frenchy..

FEA is more like, "How hard can I bend that before it breaks". Or "How far will this melted plastic go through this tube before it cools and stops flowing" knid of stuff.

Hi Burr,

> Thanks Michael,
> Was trying to create FEA for MoI! :o

Maybe in the future at some point we'll get there! :)

But just imagine how much time it would take for me right now if I tried to tackle it myself...

I guess it would be possible if I completely stopped doing other things like modeling tools and stuff like that and only concentrated on making FEA tools for MoI, but because I don't have a lot of experience in that area, it's hard to imagine that I would come up with something useful without spending many many years working on it.

Maybe in the future I'll be able to have plug-ins for MoI and have some of those other companies that specialize in those kinds of tools to do plug-ins for them.

But just trying to support people doing plugins would probably be a full time job itself so even to do that right now I'd probably have to stop doing other kinds of work like modeling tools...

So using some other programs in combination with MoI is probably your best bet for this, at least for quite a long while to come.

If something like Rhino would be useful to you for things like FEA plug-ins, there isn't any reason to avoid it! :)


I mean I understand that it would be cool if MoI could do every single function that you needed, but keep in mind that I only have 24 hours in a day to do work... ;)

- Michael

Yes Michael,
I misworded my intention. LISA is free and extensible and can act as client or server. I was looking to see if "I" could make the connection. Not really asking if you would do it for me. I just needed to ask if the meshing was possible with MoI. It is. As STL.

Thanks for the response.

Hi Burr, sorry I misunderstood you!

I'm not familiar with LISA and I didn't know that it was a free package, that is interesting.

- Michael

> does exist a free prog with the "Zebra function" ?
> just for speedy tool visualisation

Rhino evaluation version? You don't need the save function, right?

Did you mean the visual evaluation of the cleanliness of your modelling?

I do, as attacherd, regularly in Carrara.

Brian

Hi Burr,

This is free and imports STEP and IGES.
http://www.geuz.org/gmsh/

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Hey Danny,

Thanks for that link. It's a cool program. Funny, I love his viewport. I think he made it with a product I'm evaluating right now.

I'm going to fool around with it a bit. The output is limited :o I can't catch a break! I'll see if I can dig anything out of it. I'll also have to look at his licensing scheme if I can find anything valuable in it.

Anyway, Thanks again. It's a tiny gem.

Hi Brian. Zebra is used to evaluate surface curvature and continuity. It's not based on UV textures...

jonah

No problem Burr, your welcome.

Yeah it is a bit limited in output formats, I guess the Nastran and stl formats would be the most used, but like you I'd have to play around with it to see what else it can do.

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new version of Gmsh 2.51
http://geuz.org/gmsh/



CalculiX
http://www.calculix.de/]
Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQzHGyZmuHg

Hi, Pilou

Have tried Gmsh as a mesher for step or iges files exported from MoI?
Thanks,
Bas

Yes no problem here with IGES format from Moi, idem for Step ;)
And perfect also for STL : you obtain of course at start same meshing polygonal than Moi ;)