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On 22/10/12 10:49, Robin Cornelius wrote:
I've been looking around and it seems all the parts are there - just the model builder frontend - Elmer is just step away ....On 22 October 2012 10:41, tom <tompotts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:What puzzles me is there seems to be nothing available for direct creation of the models. I guess there’s some not so cheap tool somewhere. I cant find my 20 year old C++ 3D object model builder that would take about 2 hours to convert to write gmsh or elmer input. Neither of them are difficult but some people cant get their heads round doing text files...I think its probably a lack of opensource and or cheap tools that is the issue. gmsh and getdp are fantastical powerful but hard to use and i've seen very little else that is a complete tool. The tools i use all have there own system for drawing models or can accept standard autodesk files. The other tools tend to use solidworks and/or flavors of 3d autocad things all of which are extreme amounts of money. I think the full 3D version of magnetics fea that we were looking at was between £10k and £20k depending on what solvers we had. Robin
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