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Blender 3D
10-30-2008, 12:10 PM
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femnoob Offline
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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

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11-02-2008, 01:34 AM
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mandarin Offline
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I have used blender. but as far as I know you cannot create iges file. never tried importing anything to FEM.
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11-12-2008, 11:08 PM
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OK. thanks

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05-21-2009, 08:08 PM
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(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
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