multi body
I am developing an Electromagnetic Simulator which works on a meshed CAD geometry. At the moment the mesh is generated by means of an academic code but this approach is not adequate for a professional usage. Therefore I am looking around to find a better solution based on a commercial CAD/mesher. The Alibre CAD is very cost effective but in my application I need a particular data structure and I would like to know if Alibre (and eventually some other Add on) is well suited to generate it.
The data structure I am speaking of is essentially a solid that is splitted in several subvolumes (which are typically bigger and more complex than finite elements). Each volume is described by its meshed boundary (a triangular mesh with the additional info of the normal vectors associated with all the mesh points). Every contact surface must generate an unique mesh that is shared by the adjiacient volumes and the global mesh must be "watertight". Furthermore I would like that the whole process (definition of the CAD geometry, subvolumes partinioning, meshing) can be parametrized so that a change of a given dimension is automatically propagated into the mesh.
I would be happy to hear any suggestion/opinion that could help in my project.
Thanks
walter
I am developing an Electromagnetic Simulator which works on a meshed CAD geometry. At the moment the mesh is generated by means of an academic code but this approach is not adequate for a professional usage. Therefore I am looking around to find a better solution based on a commercial CAD/mesher. The Alibre CAD is very cost effective but in my application I need a particular data structure and I would like to know if Alibre (and eventually some other Add on) is well suited to generate it.
The data structure I am speaking of is essentially a solid that is splitted in several subvolumes (which are typically bigger and more complex than finite elements). Each volume is described by its meshed boundary (a triangular mesh with the additional info of the normal vectors associated with all the mesh points). Every contact surface must generate an unique mesh that is shared by the adjiacient volumes and the global mesh must be "watertight". Furthermore I would like that the whole process (definition of the CAD geometry, subvolumes partinioning, meshing) can be parametrized so that a change of a given dimension is automatically propagated into the mesh.
I would be happy to hear any suggestion/opinion that could help in my project.
Thanks
walter