IGUANA Mesh
Hi all,
The first release of IguanaMesh is now available.
IGUANA Mesh is an open source finite element meshing plugin for Grasshopper.
It uses Gmsh as mesh generator and stores all topological data within a half-facet data-structure in order to provide a comprehensive topological description of discrete models even for non-manifold meshes and mixed-dimensionalities.
IGUANA Mesh runs on x64 architectures and was tested with Rhino 6 64-bit.
IMPORTANT
An IGUANA Mesh doesn´t rely on the common Rhino mesh-data structure. On the contrary, it implements its own data structure to extend topological capabilities. For this reason, all mesh features and methods derived from Rhino are not compatible with an IGUANA Mesh.
Basic transformation components dealing with this type of meshes are directly implemented within the plugin.
An IGUANA Mesh can be converted into a Rhino Mesh by using the Mesh param component located in the main Parameter category. For 2D meshes with face elements not being linear quads or triangles, a triangulation is automatically triggered in order to return a valid Rhino Mesh. For 3D meshes, only the outer shell of the volume mesh is converted into a Rhino Mesh (this feature is experimental). In a similar way, a Rhino Mesh can be converted into an Iguana Mesh by using the Iguana Mesh param component located in the main Parameter category. No restrictions are imposed for this conversion.
LICENSE
IGUANA Mesh is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
Please contact us directly for more information.
CREDITS
Copyright (C) 2020 by Seiichi Suzuki
Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Center for Marine and Polar Research (AWI)
Bio-inspired Lightweight Design Research Group
REFERENCES
Gmsh
C. Geuzaine and J.-F. Remacle. Gmsh: a three-dimensional finite element mesh generator with built-in pre- and post-processing facilities. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering 79(11), pp. 1309-1331, 2009.
Half-Facet Data Structure
Dyedov, Vladimir; Ray, Navamita; Einstein, Daniel; Jiao, Xiangmin; Tautges, Timothy J. (2014): AHF: Array-Based Half-Facet Data Structure for Mixed-Dimensional and Non-manifold Meshes. In Proceedings of the 22nd International Meshing Roundtable 40, pp. 445–464. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-02335-9_25.
