Elmer Discussion Forum

Hi Taco, Do you really need ElmerFront? If you're new to Elmer, I suggest you forget about ElmerFront, which is an obsolete precurser to ElmerGUI. You can run ElmerFront from the command line in this way: - Open a DOS window (command prompt) - type in ElmerFront - after you get the error message, yo...

Hi, Taco, i'm afraid I really don't know - but since your post shows the Japanese character "hito" it makes me think you must have some conflict with installed languages. Are you running Japanese as the primary system language? I installed this version on two machines running XP, one of wh...

Hi, Nima, There is a good description of the egf format in the older Elmer Front User Guide, which I think is included in the standard Elmer documentation package. See page 85. EGF stands for Elmer Geometry File. I have attached a sample egf file which may help you understand the format. This is mod...

In the future? Who knows? I studied Cadkey in college, and now Cadkey is gone. I work for a multi-national corporation which uses only AutoCad in-house (and I pray for my colleagues in Miyagi). You'll need to learn many softwares in your career, so if you want jobs, learn to use as many as you can! ...

Elmer works great on Ubuntu 10.04, such as in the CAELinux install, and there should be no problem compiling a new version on Ubuntu 10.04 or 10.10 either. I have not observed anything "buggy" about the newer Ubuntu systems. Remember that Ubuntu is based on Debian, but includes a lot of ex...

Hello, Is it possible to install the Tetgen Plug-in with an existing ElmerGUI binary, or is it necessary to compile a new Elmer binary which includes the plug-in? If recompiling Elmer is needed, is it also necessary to compile Tetgen, or can the Tetgen binary be utilised (such as the Debian package ...

Hi, Torben, I wish I could be of more help, but I don't know much about this problem. I'll share that I'm running a new version of Elmer on XP using an old Pentium 4 - 32bit machine, and everything works great. Could there be some issue in the Windows setup? Some suggestions: 1. Run Task Manager and...

To find head loss by hand in this problem, I would think you'd need to calculate the Reynolds number and then dig out the Moody charts. To get the Reynolds number and ultimately calculate head loss, you must know the flow rate or velocity. Would it work to simply set (flow rate in) = (flow rate out)...

Sébastien, You can probably do some simulations of this type using Code-Aster, but simulation of shearing off the metal chip would be quite difficult, but maybe possible using python script functionality. You might also try setting up a dynamic simulation using Impact. Commercial software such as De...

Hello, I am quite new to Elmer, but have some experience with file translations for finite element analysis. Something you can try is import DXF into FreeCad, then export IGES. You can import IGES into GMSH or Salome and create your mesh for Elmer (although I'm not yet sure the best way to export a ...