Hi Matthias,<br><br>It may be a little bit late, but I also found out on the same website a converter from Solidwork to OpenCascade.<br>There is a 3 days free trial license.<br><br><a href="http://www.datakit.com/cad-convertors/solidworks-to-opencascade/186-solidworks-3d-to-opencascade.html">http://www.datakit.com/cad-convertors/solidworks-to-opencascade/186-solidworks-3d-to-opencascade.html</a><br>
<br><br>If you try it out, would you mind to share your feeling concerning the conversion quality?<br><br>Cheers,<br><br>Pierre<br><br><br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/1/28 Zenker, Dr. Matthias <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Matthias.Zenker@erbe-med.de">Matthias.Zenker@erbe-med.de</a>></span><br>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial"><span>Thank you Pierre,</span></font></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial"><span></span></font> </div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial"><span>I would not be interested in CATIA, but in SolidWorks
native import. </span></font></div>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial"><span>If I understand correctly, there is a SolidWorks
interface to gmsh which can not be distributed just for license reasons.
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial"><span>Is there a legal way to get it? We have SolidWorks in
our company, so if the interface can be bought, we would at least consider
it.</span></font></div>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial"><span>Best regards,</span></font></div>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial"><span>Matthias</span></font></div><br>
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<font size="2" face="Tahoma"><b>From:</b> Pierre JUILLARD
[mailto:<a href="mailto:pierre.juillard@gmail.com" target="_blank">pierre.juillard@gmail.com</a>] <br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, January 26, 2009
9:56 PM<br><b>To:</b> Christophe Geuzaine<br><b>Cc:</b> Zenker, Dr. Matthias;
<a href="mailto:gmsh@geuz.org" target="_blank">gmsh@geuz.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Gmsh] gmsh-announce Digest, Vol 37,
Issue 1<br></font><br></div><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">
<div></div>By the way Mathias,<br><br>If you are interested in Catia files in
GMSH, you may be interested in this conversion tool available on the open
cascade website, which allows converting CATIA files into BREP (open cascade)
files that can be opened in GMSH.<br><a href="http://www.opencascade.org/support/products/dataex/catia/" target="_blank">http://www.opencascade.org/support/products/dataex/catia/</a>
(in english)<br><a href="http://www.datakit.com/convertisseurs-cao/catia-v5-to-opencascade/93-catia-v5-3d-to-opencascade.html" target="_blank">http://www.datakit.com/convertisseurs-cao/catia-v5-to-opencascade/93-catia-v5-3d-to-opencascade.html</a>
(I hope you can read
french...)<br><br>Regards,<br><br>Pierre<br><br><br><br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">2009/1/26 Pierre JUILLARD <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pierre.juillard@gmail.com" target="_blank">pierre.juillard@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi
Christophe,<br><br>Does it mean that it could be possible to rent a library
or something that GMSH could directly use to read CATPart or CATProduct
(from Catia) files?<br><br>Thancks in advance for your
comments,<br><br>Regards,<br><br>Pierre<br><br><br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">2009/1/26 Christophe Geuzaine <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cgeuzaine@ulg.ac.be" target="_blank">cgeuzaine@ulg.ac.be</a>></span>
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<div>Zenker, Dr. Matthias wrote:<br>> Hi,<br>><br>> reading
section 3 of the paper mentioned below, I have the impression<br>> that
gmsh can directly read CAD models (e.g from SolidWorks or CATIA).<br>>
Is this possible, or did I misunderstand?<br><br></div>Hi Matthias - It is
possible, but the only CAD kernel for which we can<br>legally distribute
the interface is OpenCascade. When you link with<br>OpenCascade you can
then load native OpenCascade files (".brep").<br><br>The license for e.g.
SolidWorks prevents us from distributing the<br>interface...<br>
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<div><font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial"></font><br><br>> The
documentation speaks only about STEP, IGES and such.<br>><br>>
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From: Christophe Geuzaine <<a href="mailto:cgeuzaine@ulg.ac.be" target="_blank">cgeuzaine@ulg.ac.be</a>><br>>> Subject:
[Gmsh-announce] New Gmsh release: 2.3.0<br>>> To: <a href="mailto:gmsh-announce@geuz.org" target="_blank">gmsh-announce@geuz.org</a><br>>> Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:4979C3CA.8030609@ulg.ac.be" target="_blank">4979C3CA.8030609@ulg.ac.be</a>><br>
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you<br>>> can cite it as<br>>><br>>> ``C. Geuzaine and
J.-F. Remacle. Gmsh: a three-dimensional<br>>> finite element mesh
generator with built-in pre- and<br>>> post-processing facilities.
International Journal for<br>>> Numerical Methods in Engineering,
Accepted for publication, 2009''<br>>><br>>> We will update
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