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Hi,
New here. Has anyone used Blender 3D to model the geometry and successfully imported to any commercial FEA software?

Thanks

I have used blender. but as far as I know you cannot create iges file. never tried importing anything to FEM.

OK. thanks

(11-12-2008 11:08 PM)femnoob Wrote: [ -> ]OK. thanks

Hi Femnoob...

I think that blender ( I am starting to use it right now... ) can export in STL format...

Using this, (triangulated surfaces ) You can input your geometry to many commercial as well as open source meshers... :

GMSH, tetgen, netgen, snappyHexMesh ( an hexahedral adaptive mesher with boundary layer refinement used in OpenFOAM to mesh external flow domains ), or cgx (the mesher of calculix ) just to name a few.

With the mesh formats created by these, you can feed your solver, wether FEA or CFD with a meshed domain and proceed with your analysis.


Actually, I think that blender is unbeatable in generating some kinds of shapes... car shapes for instance... by what i have seen in YouTube...

..although its learning curve is rather steep, it is worth it...

...believe me.. You DO NOT want to create a sportscar bodyworks from scratch using lofted sections like you do in Pro Engineer, or Autodesk Inventor, I have been there... it can be overwhelming :-( many days of work to to design my "wunderwagen" :-) as compared to some hours of work to do the same in blender...


You better do it in Rhino, Icem-Surf or Autodesk Maya... ( non OSS ) or in Blender ... the most complete of them all , and OSS... :-)

Best regards

Alex

Hi Guys.

If it still interesting for you, our team have created free tool for Blender3d which could help you in this issue.
The main purpose is: Surface Reconstruction from surface-mesh.

You can find more info at: http://jazzros.blogspot.com/2011/02/hi-all.html

Waiting for your feedbacks.
Thanks.

(02-03-2011 10:45 AM)jazzros Wrote: [ -> ]Hi Guys.

If it still interesting for you, our team have created free tool for Blender3d which could help you in this issue.
The main purpose is: Surface Reconstruction from surface-mesh.

You can find more info at: http://jazzros.blogspot.com/2011/02/hi-all.html

Waiting for your feedbacks.
Thanks.

Great news indeed. I would love to see a separate page for this kind of work in this site.

(02-08-2011 09:51 AM)femnoob Wrote: [ -> ]

(02-03-2011 10:45 AM)jazzros Wrote: [ -> ]Hi Guys.

If it still interesting for you, our team have created free tool for Blender3d which could help you in this issue.
The main purpose is: Surface Reconstruction from surface-mesh.

You can find more info at: http://jazzros.blogspot.com/2011/02/hi-all.html

Waiting for your feedbacks.
Thanks.

Great news indeed. I would love to see a separate page for this kind of work in this site.

Hi Femnoob.
You probably should loot at this post.