Software Products

TYPE

TOOL

APPLICATION

MAIN ADVANTAGE

DESCRIPTION

Structured

Primitives Commands & FISH

• Available from the command line
• Any type of problem
• Better suited for simple geometries
• Can results in poor quality and heavy mesh for complex geometries

• Efficiency

• Includes tunnel primitive
• Planar cuts commands can be used to intersect blocks with any number of planes
• Includes cube command to generate a region based on a user-defined outline
• FISH language can be used to automate planar cuts to construct the desired geometry (such as complex tunnel shapes, for example)

Structured

• Executable requiring VRML input file
• Any type of problem
• Handles any closed convex volumes
• Distributed free with3DEC

• Efficiency
• Quality
• Uses common VRML CAD format

• Allows automatically creation of blocks for import into3DEC based on closed convex volumes (input in VRML format)

Structured

Interactive BlockRanger

• Available from the Rhino interface
• Any type of problem
• Better suited for simple to moderately complex geometries
• Output of hex blocks (v1.2 and up) and tetrahedral blocks

• Quality
• CAD system environment

• Itasca interactive mapped mesher
• Generates hexahedral blocks

Unstructured

Interactive Griddle (NEW)

• Available from the Rhino interface
• Any type of problem
• Better suited for complex geometries

• Efficiency

• NEW Itasca interactive automesher
• Generates tetrahedral and hex-dominant meshes