FEMGV (Version 5.1-01)

MESHING
RESEARCH
CORNER

MESH/GRID
GENERATION
SOFTWARE
SURVEY

Contact: Steve Attwood, Derek Styles

Email: info@femsys.co.uk s.attwood@femsys.co.uk d.styles@femsys.co.uk

Web Site: http://www.femsys.co.uk/

Availability: Commercial Code

Customer Support: Yes

Approximate Number of Users: 500

Pricing: Varies depending on platform and options. Discounted prices for educational use.

Platform: Windows, UNIX (SGI, HP, SUN, DEC Alpha and other UNIX hardware)

Input: IGES

DXF, PATRAN

Engineering Discipline: Structural, Environmental

Structural, civil, mechanical, geotechnical, biomedical, automotive.

Elements: Triangle, Quadrilateral, Tetrahedra, Hexahedra, Wedge (Prism)

Surface Meshing: Yes

Tri/Tet Method: Delaunay

Unstructured = DELAUNAY, Structured = MAPPED (+Blocks)

Quad/Hex Method: Advancing Front, Sweeping, Mapped Meshing

Unstructured = PAVING, Structured = MAPPED (+Blocks) If hex: Unstructured = PAVING + Sweep, Structured = MAPPED, MAPPED + SWEEP

Element Sizing Method: Manual

Direct specification of divisions along line segments including biasing; Direct specification of element size on user-selectable entities; Density settings for unstructured surface meshing

Other Features:

Mesh Merge

Comments:

Tet meshing available shortly