[Insight-users] segmentation result to Abaqus

[Luis Ibanez]

Hi Cagatay,

I don't recall seeing any of this formats in VTK...
but..
you will get better advice if you post this question
to the VTK users list. ( I can easily be missing a
good alternative).


     Regards,


           Luis


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On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 1:32 AM, C.Cagatay Bilgin <bilgic at cs.rpi.edu> wrote:
> 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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