[vtkusers] Re: Mesh

[Amy Henderson]

At 06:47 PM 3/9/2004, David Bernstein wrote:

>I don't believe VTK itself contains import routines for meshes in other 
>formats.  You have to write your own little
>translation routine which creates an instance of vtkUnstructuredGrid for 
>each type of application you want to import
>from.  Is that what you meant?
>
>Regards,
>Dave

As Mathieu already pointed out 
(http://public.kitware.com/pipermail/vtkusers/2004-March/022892.html), VTK 
does support some 3D file formats. They are listed here: 
http://vtk.org/cgi-bin/vtkfaq?req=show&file=faq03.002.htp. On that list, 
you can see that it is possible to load Unigraphics facet files. Files from 
the IDEAS software aren't listed, but someone may have already written a 
file converter from that format to one that VTK does support. (If not, you 
could write one yourself if you know how the IDEAS files are formatted.)

- Amy


>>Is it possible to import 3D tetrahedral mesh from finite element 
>>modelling software such as IDEAS or Unigraphics into VTK ??
>>if yes, can somebody tell me how to do it.
>>
>>thanks in advance,
>>NIkhil
>
>_______________________________________________
>This is the private VTK discussion list. Please keep messages on-topic. 
>Check the FAQ at: <http://public.kitware.com/cgi-bin/vtkfaq>
>Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe:
>http://www.vtk.org/mailman/listinfo/vtkusers