[Insight-users] segmentation result to Abaqus

[C.Cagatay Bilgin]

Hi Luis,
I actually found a way to do this in a little different way than I
was initially thinking of. Basically, I traced the boundary
of the object and saved the x-y coordinates of this boundary
to a text file.  Apparently, Abaqus enables python scripts, so
anything can do by clicking the menu menu buttons and such
are also doable from Python. I basically read these points from
the text file and connected them using Python and the
related Abaqus packages. Then I created the part in the
script and initialized a viewer and I got the tissue inside
the FEM software. This solves my problem.

Thank you,
Cagatay

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Cemal Cagatay Bilgin,
Ph.D Candidate in Computer Science Department at RPI
bilgic at cs.rpi.edu - http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~bilgic
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On Nov 22, 2009, at 3:38 PM, Luis Ibanez wrote:

> 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
>>>
>>>
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>>> 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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>>>> Cemal Cagatay Bilgin,
>>>> Ph.D Candidate in Computer Science Department at RPI
>>>> bilgic at cs.rpi.edu - http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~bilgic
>>>> Lally 01A, 110 8th Street Troy, NY 12180-3590, USA.
>>>> Tel: (518) 276-8489, Fax:(518) 276-4033
>>>>
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