An experimental Pointwise CAE plugin that converts a 2D unstructured tri surface grid to its polygon dual mesh.
Currently, the polygon dual mesh is exported as a Pointwise Glyph script of
the form shown below. The vertex and poly procs are not provided and
must be implmented by the user. See importDualMesh.glf for an example
implementation.
# Element centroid points 6
vertex Elem 0 { 2.9436843 5.0580130 0.0000000 }
vertex Elem 1 { 7.5634270 3.0293195 0.0000000 }
...snip...
vertex Elem 5 { 7.4581337 5.0316663 0.0000000 }
# boundary mid points 6
vertex Bndry 6 { 1.8695128 5.7636914 0.0000000 }
vertex Bndry 7 { 8.5653372 2.3663046 0.0000000 }
...snip...
vertex Hard 16 { 9.7102060 4.0963645 0.0000000 }
vertex Hard 17 { 7.3805919 7.0603647 0.0000000 }
poly Bndry { 6 0 3 9 12 }
poly Bndry { 10 4 0 6 13 }
...snip...
poly Bndry { 9 3 5 11 17 }
poly Interior { 0 4 2 1 5 3 }The distro's glyph folder contains two Glyph scripts, exportDualMesh.glf
and importDualMesh.glf that can be used to visualize the dual mesh results
in Pointwise.
After loading a grid into Pointwise, run this script to export the grid to the
file DualMeshData.out and then immediately import DualMeshData.out back
into Pointwise using the importDualMesh.glf script.
If no domains are present when exportDualMesh.glf is run, the file test1.pw
is loaded and processed.
This script loads the contents of a dual mesh export file named DualMeshData.out
and creates database entities representing the dual mesh vertices, polygons, and
polygon centroid normals. These entities are placed in several layers that can be
turned on or off as needed. The DualMeshData.out file must reside in the same
folder as the script.
This plugin was created using version 1.0 R7 of the Pointwise CAE Plugin SDK. However, it should build properly with newer versions of the SDK.
To build the DualMesh plugin you must integrate this source code into your local PluginSDK installation by following these steps.
- Download and install the Pointwise Plugin SDK.
- Configure and validate the SDK following the SDK's instructions.
- Create a DualMesh plugin project using the mkplugin script:
mkplugin -uns -cpp DualMesh - Replace the project's generated files with the files from this repository.
- Follow the platform specific instuctions below.
- This plugin uses the Configurable Math Library. You can download it from the CML website.
- The cml must be installed in the same parent folder as PluginSDK. That is:
/the/path/to/your/PluginSDK//the/path/to/your/cml/
- Open the Plugin SDK Visual Studio solution file.
- For VS2008 open
PluginSDK\PluginSDK.sln - For VS2012 open
PluginSDK\PluginSDK_vs2012.sln - Add the existing CaeUnsDualMesh project file to the solution Plugins folder.
- For VS2008 add
PluginSDK\src\plugins\CaeUnsDualMesh\CaeUnsDualMesh.vcproj - For VS2012 add
PluginSDK\src\plugins\CaeUnsDualMesh\CaeUnsDualMesh.vcxproj - Add the following source files to the CaeUnsDualMesh project
FanSorter.cxxFanSorter.hPluginTypes.h
- Nothing more needs to be done.
Plugins are freely provided. They are not supported products of Pointwise, Inc. Some plugins have been written and contributed by third parties outside of Pointwise's control.
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