[Getdp] Question regarding gmsh and getdp

[Christophe Geuzaine]

Alan Tseng wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am a student researcher at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Orthopedics
> Biomechanics Laboratory. I am creating FEM of bones and performing FEA on the
> models. Gmsh/GetDP seemed like an easy way to go about this.
> 
> However, my problem is that I am not too computer savvy and therefore, I am
> rather confused about something and was wondering if you could point me in the
> right direction.
> 
> I start from STL files created from uCT scans and in the gmsh environment, I
> save the STL as a mesh. Then in the solver module, I attempt to run GetDP but I
> am not sure exactly how to do that. I apparently need a *.pro file. From the
> manual, it sounds to me like that this is the initial input problem definition
> file. Does that mean this is basically a text file I write up from scratch?
> 

That's right. There are some basic examples of such .pro files in the 
reference manual, as well as in the wiki (http://geuz.org/getdp/wiki)



> Thank you for the help.
> 
> - Alan
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Christophe Geuzaine
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