Elmer Discussion Forum

Serge-Eti,

I can only speak for Blender 2.49b. The .stl which it exports is binary; it does not know how to
export ascii. Gmsh can read it though, and then output an ascii .stl which Elmer or Netgen can read.

regards,
Gary

Depending on the complexity, I would probably try the following:

Put the xyz into .ply format and import into Blender. Then construct the
surface mesh manually. Then export as .stl. Then let Elmer or Netgen
mesh it.

regards
Gary

Mike, I'm far from experienced in Linux, but if it helps, any: Search the forum for libvtk5.2 and you can see what I did. (Though I have a feeling your problem might be more difficult.) I understand that Ubuntu dumped Synaptic Package Manager in Oneiric. I like it. What I would recommend would be to...

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Mike,

To me it looks like a Blender version thing. But that is not to say that e2aps will take you where you want to go.
Perhaps others have better suggestions.

regards
Gary

If you haven't looked at e2aps (Sourceforge) you might give that a try.

-Gary

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