[Insight-users] segmentation result to Abaqus

[C.Cagatay Bilgin]

Hi Luis,
I wanted to double check this with a person
more experienced in Abaqus than me. His
response is that STL format is not supported
in Abaqus regardless of the version used.

Here is the list of formats that it supports.
1) ACIS SAT .sat
2) IGES .igs .iges
3) STEP .stp .step
4) AutoCAD DXF
5) VDA .vda

Thank you.
C. Cagatay Bilgin


On Nov 15, 2009, at 10:08 AM, Luis Ibanez wrote:

> Hi Cagatay,
>
> Could you please post to the mailing list the
> list of file formats that you can read with the
> Student version of Abaqus ?
>
> Once we have that list, we could suggest you
> mechanisms for converting a segmentation to
> some of those file formats.
>
>
>     Thanks
>
>
>          Luis
>
>
> ----------------------------------------
> On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 10:48 PM, C.Cagatay Bilgin  
> <bilgic at cs.rpi.edu> wrote:
>> From what I have seen from the previous emails
>> in the list my question might be more of a VTK
>> related question but here it goes.
>>
>> Basically what I want to do is to save the result
>> of a segmentation in a format that I can open
>> in Abaqus. Luis suggested (apparently year
>> ago) to save the image as a binary VTK image
>> and then using VTK, open and write this image
>> as an STL file. I am not sure if STL is supported
>> by Abaqus, as far as I can see at least not in the
>> student version.
>>
>> Assuming that STL is supported by Abaqus, my second
>> question is that is this conversion still the way to go
>> or a better way exist (better meaning no dealing with VTK
>> as my experience in VTK is limited). If this is the case,
>> I might need some pointers in VTK since I will probably
>> need to mesh this image before writing it as an STL
>> file. Any suggestions, pointers appreciated.
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Cagatay
>>
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